Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-10-30
Analysis Of Denison's Vote.

Mr.. EDITOR IL have bad il in mind
several weeks to call public attention to
the character of the vote received by
Mr., Denison, being confident that care
full analysis thereof would utterly de-
molish the claim so boldly and persist
emily asserted by hisfriends, and lately
by himself, that he received majority
of the republican votes cast al the late
election, and therefore should be regard
ed and supported as the regular candi-
date of the republican party. But the
Montpelier Daily Journal, having taken
you re-published in the last number Of
the Times, has so faithfully and convinc-
ingly performed the task had proposed
to undertake, as to leave nothing in that
respect for me to do. The facts and fig
ures therein set forth, to which | invite
renewed attention, prove beyond ques.
ton that Judge Poland not Mr.. Denison,
was actually supported by a clear major
ity of all the republicansf5f this district,
who voted atsthe late election, and that
he, and not Mr.. Denison, is the regular
republican candidate, not only by rea-
son of his original nomination by the
convention ut White River Junction,
but also by this additional endorsement,
falsely claimed for and by Mr.. Denison,
of a majority of republican votes at the
polls. Mr.. Denison, therefore, is in no
sense, and to no extent, the candidate of
the republican party. On the contrary
he is the candidate of its enemies only :;
and any support given to him tends d.
rectly to the disruption and overthrow
of the Republican organization. He is
before the people solely by virtue of an
unprovoked and utterly unjustifcable
bolt from a regular nomination, whose
perfect regularity and fairness no man
has dared to question.
How, then, can any intelligent repub-
lican voter, who honestly values repub-
lican principles and regards the preser-
walton and maintenance of the repub-
lican organization as essential to the fu-
ture well-being of the country, so far
forget himself, his political convictions
and party obligations, as to countenance
in any manner the candidacy of Mr..
Denison, candidacy menscing in the
last degree to the very existence of the re-
publican party in this district? Consider
this matter well, fellow republicans, be-
fore committing so fatal an error, which
will surely re-appear to plague you in
all time to come. 1t is clear that Judge
Poland is the only republican candidate
in this district, and support given to any
other candidate is an act hostile to the
republican organization. 1t is true that,
under singing sense of the great and
humiliating indignity and injustice done
by his constituents, led sstray for the
moment by the wickedly false fabrica-
tions of the so-called independent
press" whose proper liberty has degener-
ated into indecent license, Judge Poland
published letter proposing to withdraw
from the canvass, but the people who
put him in nomination, whom he has
served so faithfully and with such sig
nal ability, have not accepted, and do
not acquiesce in, this withdrawal. On
the contrary, they propose to vote for and
elect him, if they can. II they chance
to be beaten they will submit to pub
lie calamity they could not prevent, sor-
rowing less for the defeat of their candi-
date, than over'the bad faith and treach-
cry which will then have completed the
Generalization and disruption of the re.
publican party in this congressional dis.
trict.
A STRAIGHT REPUBLICAN.