Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-14
A BOLT IN A GOOD CAUSE.

y eOll IN a GOOD CAUSE.
Those members Of the republican district
convention who put their regard for purity
and honesty 10 public men before their sub.
serviency to party controlled by political
tricksters have made nomination of an indie
pendent candidate 10 run in open field against
Poland, the salary.grabbist, Credit Mobilier
and district ring whitowashcr, tho tool of
Shepard 10 the gag law business and mo.
nopolist and friend Of the capitalist as
against the laborer in every respect Had
full vote Of tho republican voters Of this
district been had, without any doubt Judge
Poland would have been elected to stay at
home, where all grabbists should be.
For tho past two months Poland has been
strainlng every nerve to work up his friends
IN all parts of the district aud get them out
to the caucuses, while the other party have
done comparatively no work at all, and yet
he gets only oue-half the majority he did
two years ago in the convention, and to-day
he could not carry his own town, and we
believe he will not in the September election.
BY such work as only an experienced lawyer
and politician knows how to do, Poland has
carried the convention, and few men 10 the
republican party Of Vermont have stigma
tiled themselves and their party by nOmina.
ting a candidate obnoxious to the majority
of the voters, confident that the fear Of step
ping over the party lines will hold the voters
of the second district to this disgusting nom
nation. They arc mistaken. There is a
limit to the patience even Of republican
voters, aud that limit has been reached
The purer portion Of the party in this state
that portion who will not support cOrrup-
ton and fraud--are strong enough to carry
the day at election, and they will do it. W.
make no question of this, for the people an
ar oused on this question. Money has beer
used by the Poland party to secure this nom
ination. The voice Of the convention
~ w uite hNeI OuuCblou Neuuesua1 wa
neither the voice Of the people nor Of III,
republican party, and the republicans Of Yer
mont refuse to accept it as the expression Of
their will.
This is free country, aud no clique o
men hired for the purpose can say to th'
voters whom they shall or shall not supper
at the polls.
Hon. ID. q. Denison, Of RoyaltOu, Is tn,
peoples republican candidate. He has beer
unanimously nominated by those delegate
opposed to salary. grabbing and other cor
ruptions of the Poland stripe, aud it is tn
duty of every repu blican voter who desire
good to their party to vote this, the homes
republican ticket The bare.faced frauC
and bribery practiced at the various tow
caucuses this year are sufficient cause for
: bolt inside the republican party. st. John
bury could not be carried by Poland to.da,
with all his money and trickery. The sam
is true Of Barnet, which was carried by
bare.iaced lie. Randolph was strongly ant
Poland but the Poland party hired fOur-hor
teams and carried their men to the caucl
while Mead mon all around stayed at HON
confident that their votes were not needed
not only this, but Poland men were paid +
: their time, and some who voted that tick
y have since said that they preferred Il
). colonel but would work for the man th
Q paid them best !" again, democrats voted d
Poland ticket in considerable numbers, an
o afterward Mead tickets were refused on Il
i ground that they were offered by democrat
IS These statements are unvarnished fac
r that can be proved though we have no dOu
h that the Poland organs will deny the
u We are ready to prove them in court il ne
Il be.
J, These are but few instances, sbowi
r. some of the objections TO the caucus syste
;, Let the candidates come before the people
70 the regular election, where bribery is pu
2, ishable by law. There is no law to prev'
o the buying of votes in party caucus
J. convention, and no one knows it better th
ID Hon. Luke =. Poland. Let us have I
IT voice OF the people.