Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-10
An Unrewarded Patriot.

urinT the eyentfl campaign Of 1s7s? Who vas It hat
II time made speech after speech for the
lever faltered when there sign of wavering in
arter we wot OF but will not mention Was it Charles
Gdsf ef for Gce Mr. War was @ wo did the
work? IT WAS CHARLES H. JOYCE.
Had the Globe taken the trouble to have
lsked the Republican State Committee of
S72 relative to the matter, under which it
eems to be laboring with considerable per-
urbation of mind, it would, perhaps, have
earned that the least said publicly, or the
ever questions it propounded, concerning
is candidates " claims " for party services
n that campaign, the better would those
claims" appear before the people. As
he Globe assumes the catechetical role in
is line of argument, it will pardon lis for
suit We desire to ask: Is ii
not fact that the Globes candidate desir-
ed employment in speech-making during
that campaign, and by himself and friends
requested that he be kept
speaking as far as possible within the linz
its of the District which he now desires to
represent Was this desire TO be titus
employed simply from disinterested patri-
otism and unselfsh loyalty to party? Is
it not true that the Colonel received a
large sum in money from the committee
for those speeches? If he did receive pay,
perhaps the Globe would be willing to tell
the good people of the District the sum in
round numbers-anywhere within an even
hundred dollars will answer our present
purpose-this unselfish party speaker re-
ceived for this labor? If the Globe can
put the value of its candidates speeches
in that memorable campaign into Il bill
in due commercial form, somewhat as 9th
er lawyers put in their claims for talk
ing" we have MT bit of misgiving about
being able to supply the figures On the
credit side for money had and received
Then the only debatable item about the
claim for this party service would be the
rather delicate one of how much the Colo
mel should allow in offset for the privilege
then given him to ;" air his eloquence" anc
. try his bottom " preparatory to the Con
gressional race upon which he has now SC
disinterestedlv entered. We desire above
all things to be Just and pay our debts a,
fast as they accrue. If the people of the
First Congressional District are indebted
to the Globes candidate for those polltica
talks in 1872, for Heavens sake let us be
about paying up. But first give Us the item:
in the bill; and if nothing but II seat il
Congress will pay the balance, perhaps one
of those needy chairs in the Nationa
House of Representatives had best be
bottomed with the gallant and pluck,
Colonel. Who can tell?
Before we consent to dothis, or to unhes
itatingly believe the Globes candidate
should he credited for entire disinterested
ness and unrecompensed labOrs of love IL
that political campai gn,-a campaign IL
which the Globe originators and manager:
cast their political fortunes with,the ''Liber
ais and voted against Republican nomina
tions-we desire to know Just how much tn
Globe values those speeches, and how mucl
filthy lucre the Colonel has alread,
received for them The laborer is worth,
his hire-there is mt II bit of doubt abou
that But when one elects to receive III
recompenSe in good coin of the realm. it i
hardly manly for his friends to come plead
inc his claims to men who contribute
the money which the claimant already ha
in his pocket. We have another little con
undrum which we presume the GlObc vii
make haste to solve in order to show Ii
candidates party patriotism. Is it tru
that Il Speaker of the Vermont House {
Representatives was assessed certain SUI
for campaign purposes, and that that littl
assessment was never paid save by tall
| ing?" The Globe is quite at liberty to PIT
its unrecompensed speaker upon the stan
to testify in his own behalf in these litl
claims, " and after his testimony we hare
" think it will be necessary to call upo
the State Committee and others who ku0l
the facts to prove that lawyers as a class
and we love the entire fraternity dearly
are very much alike in the matter of rt
tainers and fees for services rendered
When they are engaged in an "eventful
cause and have an easy-sOuled, promp
paying client, they would be more tina
mortal if they were content to Labor i
vain in the Lord or work for nothing i
the political field. Again, is it not tru
that Mr. Willard was assessed in Il niue
larger sum than was the "speaker,' an
is t not equally true that his check for th
amount was promptly sent in to the Stat
Committee? Still further, did not NJ
Willard hold himself in readiness to o
wherever directed by the Committee t
address the people, and for these speeche
did he ask or receive Il penny from I'll
Committees funds? With what consister
cy then does the Globe palaver about I'll
great unrecompensed "speaker -?
This style of political canvassing
distasteful to us, and we know it certainl
must be to Mr.. Willard, if not to Col. Joyce
but if the Globe delights in it, OF it give
it a particle of pleasure to indulge in sue
mode of warfare, it has only, after it h;
attended to these little interrogatories,
send in its card and we shall be happy
CRAFTY its peculiar taste in this line by
few more conundrums more truthful m
practical. we are led to think, than the
will prove agreeable or entertaining
the parties best able to answer them.
An Unmannerly GrOWl.
The Rutland Globe. in II very silly an