The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-08-11

doubts either Of these posiulsics. The
question which We have to submit TO
every temperance mau who IL inclined To
desert Mr.. Lucia in this contest is simply
this Is it either wise, or right to take
such action as will tend to dishearten and
embarrass the great body Of temperance
men in the county, and afford encourage.
ment aud moral support to those who are
daily engaged in the open or disguised
violation Of the laws Of the Common.
wealth We do not call you "rummies" ;
we know that you are not we know that
you wish well to the interest Of good or.
der and sobriety among us Al the same
time we are equally certain that YOU are
making "a terrible mistake Long ago
the advocates Of free rum in the county
openly proclaimed that Mr.. Lucia should
not be reelected. Will you help them
in making their prediction good shall
your hands aid in dealing the blow that
strikes down a faithful officer, because he
has been true to his sworn duty. aud his
most sacred obligation ? Does such a
course commend itself to your judgment
and in your conscicnces
But it is said that although Mr.. Lucia
has shown himself faithful he has not evin
ced Il sufficient degree of ability to warrant
his reelection. Is it then because he has
not been sufficiently successful in suppress.
Jog their Illegal business, that the entire
rum interest of the county is opposing
him, and leaving no stone unturned to
compass his defeat? Do you suppose,
does any man in his senses suppose that
they are laboring to elect "A man who will
be more efficient in suppressing the bust
ucss in which they arc embarked? The
answer to such questions is apparent
Either you or all the "rummies" Of the
county, are evidently deceived Which
is it, Mr. Lucia, whatever may be
said Of his ablitv,-has done what no
States Attorney before him has ever
achieved in this county. lie has prose.
cuted some sellers 10 final conviction in
the County Court. Some Of them finding
he wss in dead earnest, have pleaded
guilty, others have forfeited their bonds :;
others have been pronounced guilty by
verdict. He has not obtained conviction
in every case Did any officer of the law
anywhere ever accomplish that feat ? Is
it nothing that he has succeeded i'll many
eases when bis predecessors from one
cause or another, have failed in all The
Tact is too plain to allow OF concealment
that the great body Of those who are en-
deavorng to prevent his reelection are
doing so, not because he has sometimes
failed, but because be has often succeeded,
and SO has prove, serious obstacle to the
prosperous continuance Of the rum traffic
They are not blind to their own supposed
interests. They are not laboring with all
their energies, to elect man who, they
believe, will accomplish more than he has
achieved to embarrass and uproot their
business. They are believing at the top
of their lurgs Great is Diana of the
Ephesians because by this tratii, they
have their wealth aud because this
their craft is in danger" II it were not
so serious u matter, it would be comical
IN the last extreme, to see the rum inter
est Of the county, clothing itself in sack
cloth, uttering doleiul geremiads, and
shedding crocodile tears because the
States Attorney has not in t~o years
utterly suppressed the traffic by which it
iattens Temperance men will You help
them
/ In the last issue Of the RlalsIkH &C.
Temperance man" attempts to show that
Mr.. Lucas administration has been au
expense to the State, because, while his
salary has been 5000 90, the fines have
been little more than $1,000 90, but he
takes no account Of bonds forfeited which
amount to considerable SUM- more If We
mistake not, than the fines imposed, both
Of which 20 alike into the Treasury of the
State. The fact remains uncOntradicted
and unquest.onablc that while for many
years prio, to Mr., Luca's election the
administration oil criminal justice i'll this
county has been all expense to the State,
in his hands, it has paid a revenue TO the
government.
But il it were the reverse oi this, what
] lneu is the tnIOTctiDtut OF Jaw 10 cease
because it costs something? Are courts
OF justice to be closed and prisons to be
/ torn down, and crimes to be left unpunish.
cd, because all this requires money
Are not righteous government, and good
order, and sobriety and the enforcement
Of Law worth all they cost?
Hating temperance men, brethren 10
the common labor to maintain society
and protect the dearest interest Of human
ity, our appeal is to you. Will you help
to make jubilee in all the sinks Of pol
luton in the county? Will you forsake
the men with whom you have fought many
good fight and VOL many victory, to
ally yourselves with those who are daily
violating the law. and imperiling all the
Interests of society," CANDoR
Edtg' 9fi.s Rsgisis
The sympathy ga total abstinence man
and voter" processes is entirely thrown
away 1t would be well for him to re-
tain all that sort of thing for himselfand
for the victims he and his associates are
! making. and will sacrifice if he succeeds