St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-07-24
The Farmer" and the Convention.

| The next week a1ttf tlle hcplblicill
county convention was held i'll this
place. the Farmer appeared with an
article which we think conveyed some
erroneous impressions. This, together
with the fact that similar mis-state-
ments had appeared in the Springfield
! RrpnbIic0u- said To have been written
by the same one who edits the Farmer
and been copied extensively through
the state press. seemed to demand some
correction. We attempted the correc-
tion of some of these wrong impressions
in IN article last week under the head
of 1.-The Late Republican Convention"
! The last Farmer replied to this article
in ii curious medley: containing Sev-
cral miS-StatcmcntS which we shall refer
to:
l. The Farmer, SANS if and ..if."
then ..thoSe who attended the conven-
ton know what to think of the Cdicdo-
nidns veracity." The Farmer in the
above inSlnIIation wishes to impcach
our veracity. We shall leave this issue
with the people who have known and
read the CdIo,Ionjdn now for thirty
seven years with but one change of
conductors and with no change of prin-
cipleS. The people ought hy this time,
and we are sure they do know "what
to think of our vcIicity."
y L.
dOnidn cnlightcn us us to why the call
for the convention WAS forwarded to
that 1nr"r lay - n'""l., "f the ,"mr-
mittee and published there before the
Farmer received any intimation that
such Il call had been issued ?" Although
we are not dcputizcd by the county
committee t" answer questions for them.
1t may relieve the Farmer on this point
To know that the editor of the CuIr,To-
man WAS met on the train bv Il member
ct the county committee. and requested
to issue Il call for the conventions. Had
we Thought of it. we should have sent
II slip t" the Farmer aS Il matter of both
news and courtesy. knowing this. w"
1t" not suppose the Farmer will longer
harbor the thought that there WAS any
design i'll keeping the call away from ii
or its readers
). 1--WE are not surprised. after hay
ing failed to get his brothcr-iu-Iav 4
nominations. etc. THAT the editor of
the fdic'ioHidH should make wr\ faces
when the ticket is called the clcaucSt
ever presented in Caledonia county"
The force of this assertion is sadly in
julr'l 10y the fact that there Is no truth
i'll it. The CdIctIonjan never tried ..to
get his hrotlrr-in-Inw Il nominations e"
nor amy one else. 1t never alvorated
publicly OF privately ANY man for Il
place on the county ticket The Euy-
m'rS advice Is pertinent applied Il"
itself: at is better not To know So
much than T." know 50 many thing,
that amt So" Instead of makin" vr\
faces ut the ticket. we commented it.
and declared it deserved well of the
voters of the county. We >aW no rca-
son then and see none now. for an
nounring il such Il wonderful trimmph
of amy body. especially when nearly
half the ticket put in :.ornnaiiom was
the same a> tw" Years ago.
!. And the last sentence an>wrr> the
Farmers surprise" that we should
single ont tire" men on the ticket"
etc. We intcmdcd to convey the idea
that II these three men were >Iti>tact"-
rN t" the Farmer now. they had already
held places on the ticket two Years or
more. W hat particular triumph at the
farmers w;> il that rc-numinat,d them
>. The Farmer in closing denies that
1t claimed men were put on the nnmi-
mating committee hcrau>c they we've
farmers, but SAYS THE fact that 81 large.
Il number were farmers Indicated that
the farmers were takiu" THEN places ON
an cqua! footing with other callimg> in
political Matters" We are "lad the
Farmer denies ANY design in maxim"
up the nominating committee. In if,
original Article it said .Of the sixty
eight members of the nominating com
mlttcr not less than forty or fifty were.
farmers. This strikes us :S briu"
pretty strong for IN ''rqull footing with
other caling>."
And this ends with lis the talk anout
the county convention. What we oh
irct Ia. and what the people have =
right to complain of. is an attcmpt to
get up jealousy between classes. There
Is II desperate effort to make the far
mcrS helicvc that they are an abused
class. that they are not likely To receive
their just rights. etc. The men who
attempt t" get up II >chiSm of this kind
in il community are mischief makers
and demagogucS, aud dangerous To the
best Interests of the state
Coming to a Head
The Bcechcr-Tilton affair is dr;,viu~
to Il close. For some uracrorlntahIe
reason the investigating committee have
allowed Theodore Tilton'S Indictment.
in all its minute details, to 90 before