Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-30
POLAND IN THE FIELD.

Judge Poland is in the field as a candidate
for reelection to Congress. Finding that it
was in vain to ask the people for the Office
in fair and open election, he has once more
stutifed himself by openly Withdrawing his
name from the canvass, but secretly plying
every means in his power to secure the cleo
ton. What cares he that the people of the
district have emphatically informed him that
they wish him to stay at home and let his
place be filled by an honest man? The man
whose chief end through life has been to Sc
cure office and its spols, who at the time he
left the democratic party wrote las Judge Po-
land did in private letter to Samuel Bruce,
of Barnet which letter is in existence to-day
"Now is the time for us to abandon the
democratic party and unite with the opposi-
ton; the democracy will always be in the
minority in Vermont, and zoe can neUer get
office in this party;" tho man who kept his
back pay until he saw he could never get
another election without returning it, and
then returned it; the man who voted for
himself in the st. Johnsbury caucus after the
ballot was declared closed, because he dared
not do it while there was a chance of his
getting another vote from any one else the
man who, after straining every nerve to get
the nomination, told the convention that it
was matter Of very great indifference to
him. that same man with characteristic fox
mess and deception has now publicly with
drawn from the contest as a blind to keep
the other party off their guard, and private
ly has spared neither time nor expense to
have all his men on hand early at the polls.
He is not willing to accept the voice Of the
people as expressed in free election, but
hopes by deception and trickery to carry the
election in spite of them. Are the voters of
this district slaves, to be ruled by man
who is not their choice ? We think not.
We think there will be full attendance at
the polls next Tuesday, because the people
are awake this year. We trust that none
who feel an interest in the result of this
election will stay at home. Each legal vo.
ter has certain amount of responsibility
resting upon him for the result. Let there
be rousiDg majority for Dudley @. Deni-
son. Your votes are needed to sustain the
good name of our dear old Green Mountain
State. The friends of reform and of purity
all over the land sent up cheers for old YER
mont as the news was flashed over the wires
that she had administered fitting rebuke
to salary grabbing and public stealing at tho
September election. Let that rebuke be re.
peated next Tuesday, and let the record Of
Vermont as the state Of the purest politics
and the noblest and bravest men not be
furnished by defeating the crafty judge on
only light vote, but let the ballot of every
freeman in the district tell on the side of
right and justice.
On election day we shall expect to see
the country flooded with Poland documents
Being such as cannot bear inspection, and
full of falsehoods which could be readily
proved to be such, they will be issued at
the last moment, SO that there will be no OPP
portunity for them to be replied to. We
doubt very much if that sneaking cOwardly
kind of warfare will avail much for those
who engage in it. It's too thin, and people
can see through it.