Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-08-05
LamOilIe County.

We notice call is out for a Farmers
Convention in Lamoille County, to nomi-
nate new ticket for Senator and County
officers. If this call means bolt from, OIL
is in any way intended to defeat, the regu
larly nominated Republican ticket in thai
County, we hope our Republican brethren
there will act carefully and wisely in the
matter. Bolts are sometimes iustifiable
and there are at times reasons why a man
should cast an independent, or no party,
ballot. But we are certain no good or suf-
ficient cause exists to justify any Republi-
can in ignoring or repudiating the will Of
the recent Lamoille County Convention as
fairly expressed through its approval of the
work of the nominating committee. 1t is not
wisdom to distract or destroy ones own
party by neglecting or refusing to vote for
its fairly constituted representatives. 1t is
impossible to organize or work a no-party
ticket without direct injury to the princi-
pies we all hold most sacred. A vote at
the coming election must directly aid the
Republican party, or count in favor of the
Democratic ticket and principles. Let no
Republican farmer OF laboring man burn
his fingers in trying to pull out Democratic
roasted chestnuts from SO hot fire.
Of the personal makeup of the Republi-
can ticket we profess to but a partial ac-
quaintance. Years have passed since we
Y ere an inhabitant of that County land the
men we knew most intimately in those days
have, many of them. given place in the
direction Of the political and material af-
fairs of that section to other men. We do
know, however, most favorably some of
the nominees, and we hear the ticket as Il
whole spoken of in high terms. Dur
ing the fsession of the Legislature of
1869, we formed a very pleasant acquain
lance with the man whose name heads the
ticket as candidate for senator. We refer
to Carroll S. Page, Esq, of Hydepark, who
was that year brother member with us,
and whose legislative work was so faith
fully and ably performed that we can con
tidently assure the farmers and working
men of Lamoille County that should they
elect him senator they will have most
faithful vigilant and influential public SER
want. We recall with pleasure that when
he was on the important Committee on
Claims, to which all questions of finance,
appropriations and increase of salaries are
usually referred, Mr.. Page ever placed
himself squarely on the side of retrench-
ment and economy. And this, too, some
times in opposition to the majority reports
of the committee. We remember an in
stance in which, single-handed and alone.
he opposed majority report flvoring an
increased salary. and in brief, impas-
stoned speech so carried the House with
him that the bill was beaten out of sight
By these acts he won the confidence of the
farmers and honest men of the House, and
welded a salutary influence in general
legislation. Mr.. Page is not a speech
maker in the general acception of that
Term, but he possesses the happy faculty of
expressing himself clearly and concisely
on any topic in which he is interested, or
in other words, he hits the nail squarelv
on the head at the first blow. He
belongs to that class of debaters who
10 their own thinking, and talking, indie
pendently and fearlessly, and with the
fewest possible words needful to send the
subject home to the nearer Few of the
members of the Legislature of 1869 will
ever forget the very brief but exceedingly
pertinent and eloquent speech with which
he electrified the House in demanding that
Lamoille should be recognized as one of
the sisterhood of counties belongin to
Vermont, when the clerk had inadvertently
omitted to name Il single town therein in
calling the roll of members Of the House.
- Spunky Lamoille was at once voted into
the Union,n amid the most hearty cheers
and applause. We trust the freemen, and
the farmers of Lamoille. will
remember they can honor and serve them
selves, and do creditable thing for the |
county, by sending Mr.. Page to represent
their interests in the Senate