The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-08
LETTERS ON CURRENT TOPICS
Congressional Matters.

EdtOF RutIuHd GiObe If anything in
addition to what has already transpired is
needed to show to what desperate straits
Mr.. Willard and his supporters are driven
in the present campaign, it is to be found
in the misrepresentation and mendacity
which they are practising to compass their
ends Like all who have stolen goods con-
ceaed about them, they are crying "stop
thief for the purpose of accusing some one
else. Having failed to secure the election
of delegates to their liking in nearly every
town outside of Washington county which
they had set down on their slate as sure for
Mr.. Willard, and having been forced to
confess that the contest is to be close
resent that if Col. Joyce gets the nomina-
ton it will be through the aid of the dem
ocrats
Now, we should suppose, that for the
sake of giving responsibility to their former
statements, they would not resort to so bare
faced and ridiculous lie as even to lnsinu-
ate that Col. Joyce is dependent on or seek
ing support of the democratic party. To
us it looks like the last desperate effort OF
a drowning man, and the wonder is that
some of the cOmmonest intelligence should
not have foreseen that such acts or such
stories would rccoil on their authors, as
they are now recoiling.
Do Mr.. Wizards supporters think the
people of Rutland, Addison and Beuning-
ton counties, and of Washington county,
for that matter, can be imposed upon by
any silly twaddlc about Col. Joyce's soil
citing or receiving the support of the DEM
ocrats in this district? This preteXt would
imply, if there was enough Of it for an i'm
plication, that the republicans of the dis
trict are not acquainted with Col. Joyce.
Isn't there broad streak of arrogance, OF
impudence, or innocence apparent, when Il
newspaper in Washington county or Chit
tenden county undertakes to instruct the
citizens of Rutland, Addison and Bcnning-
ton counties, respecting Col. Joyce and his
political relations to the democratic party
1t might be well for that paper TO know
that there is scarcely town in the district
that has not heard Col. Joyces views from
his own lips, and we will risk the state
ment that there are fewer men in tho
three counties last named, who are not per
sonally acquainted with Col. Joyce, than
there are in, Washington county who are moi
personally acquainted with Mr.. Willard
and those who know him need no further
guaranty that, politically, he has no aflili
ations with democrats. 1t is true that in
business and social relations he enjoys the
confidence and friendship of many demo
Gratis, but to say he has anything in com
mon with them politically, would provoke
smile in any one who knows him, be he
republican or democrat.
We suggest to the noisy creatures il
Washington county who are harping about
Col Joyce and the democrats to inquir,
of the people of Rutland, Addison an(
Bennington counties, who, of all men il
these counties, or in Washington county
even, supported the candidates and plat
form of the republican party most faith
fully daring the last presidential campaign
by wtrd and work, and who was the mos
formidable antagonist Of the democrats.
And it may not be amlss to remind some
men in Washington county whom We
could name, and who are now circulating
this story concerning Col. Joyce and the
democrats for the sole object of deceiyinl
somebody of the fact that two brief years
have not yet crept away since they wer,
soliciting mis- assistance both in the caus,
OF the republican party and also in thei
own personal behalf. If there ever la.
been an instance Of contemplate ant
shameless ingralitude in political matters
in Vermont, We say that the course o
those men toward Col Joyce stands pre-
eminently at the head.
1t would seem as If to support Mr.. VIII
lard and oppose Col. Joyce in an open
manly and straightforward manner ough
TO satisfy them, but such is not the case
and their vindlctiycness seems to be appeas
cd only by associating him with the demo
Gratis. Surely, whatever may he sal,
against the democrats, he could not hay
suffered an irreparablc loss by exchanging
such republicans as we are now consider
ing for almost any kind OF democrats, an,
he has cause to regret that the story the,
are telling has so little truth in il, provide,
the exchange could be effected, 1t SCENE,
scarcely necessary to say what we have re