Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-08-26
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and disposition to adhere to the truth.
The Globe further says:
The Springfield REPUBLICAN. of Thursday. pub
fishes letter from Montpeher-r remember from Mont
bridge openly boosted in the convention that he had
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had used money for such purpose, which we do mo-
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that letter appeared this old coat came of and my
the result? Such speech before such body OF mel
would have caused the almost renonnatior
than this lying correspondent himself
The statement quoted from the Spring
field Repu6ljcan'S letter rs to the remark
of Mr.. Woodbridge is strictly true. o.
course Mr.. Woodbridge had too much
cunning to make it in the convention. but
it was made in a public place, and in the
hearing ofseveral gentlemen after the con-
vention. Probably the person who made
the boast knows the value of money in q
political canvass. and has less delicacy
about admitting the use of it than the in
nocents who write for the Globe He GER
tainly made the statement, and it was not
made in a corner, nor to his political set
either. 1t was public boast.
The Globe manifests Il becoming sensi-
tiveness to 4 healthy public opinion, in
saying that if Woodbridge had made his
boast in the convention it would have
brought about the unanimous renomina-
ton of Mr.. WILLARD; but the influences
which the exmember, in his shirt sleeves
and with his wallet out, set at work, were
precisely the same as though he had so
far lost discretion as to have boosted of it
before instead of after the nomination.
The work had been done and the fruits OF
it had been obvious in the convention, and
in Il moment of eXultation it was natural.
although perhaps not discreet, to give
hints at the way malorities had been
manufactured.
The Globe still endeavors to convey the
impression that Col. Joyce's nomination
was the spontaneous action of the people :
that the campaign was not worked up in
his behalf. 1t knows better, of course. 1t
knows, if no interested persons on either
side had meddled with the canvass If the
people had been left without solicitation
or influence to make choice of n candidate.
there would not have been enough opposi-
ton to Mr.. WLLARD's denomination to
make a respectable count; and that if to-
day the choice were left to the people I'M
trameled by the action of the convention
three fourths Of the republicans of the
district would vote for his reelection 1t
knows that the Globe would have support
ed Mr.. WILLARD if Mr.. Kilburn had
been reappointed postmaster at Rutland
1t knows that no paper in the district, be-
fore Mr.. Tuttle was appointed postmaster
at Rutland, was more ELUSIVE in praise of
Mr.. WILLARD than the Rutland Globe,
and it knows why its course was changed
Immediately after that event. What is the
use, then, for that paper to pretend that
movement, obviously pushed in particular
interest, and driven with the persistence
that comes Of personal and pecuniarv dis
appointment and newspaper rivalry, is a
movement of the people? The Globe
k'aows better; and why don't it say what
it knows, that the Globes opposition to
Mr.. WILLARD was not at all on public
grounds, but because its candidate for
postmaster was not appointed and the
Herdld's candidate was? Mr.. Wood
bridge admitted, in part, what his opposi-
ton originated in; although. as he was one
of the leaders of the opposition four years
ago, he must have had then a prophetic
vision of the letter to be written this year
to the n. Y, Times, and as he engineered
the caucus which chose him as delegate
this year, avowedly in opposition to Mr..
WILLARD, ten days before the letter
appeared in the Times, his knowledge of
the future must have still continued. His
"coat came off and his wallet came out"
and he made no secret Of it. Why can't
the Globe be as frank as its co-worker and
co-rejoicer in the canvass, and admit that
when it heard of Tuttles appointment as
postmaster its coat came off and-its ink
pot came out and all the ''industries'' of
the Otter Creek Valley were at once put
in operation
The only need of writing this history is
to disabuse the mind of any one who may
have been misled by the action at Middle
bury and the Globes Interpretation of it
into the belief that the people are happy
vention. The expression of papers outside
of the district, which seems to SO much
disturb the Globe, is only an echo of the
voice of thousands in the district. Col.