The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-19

counting votes for Crank Jones good
votes that the venerable William Allen
would accept gubernatorial nomination
on an initiation platform, Allen G. Thur
man make haste to scramble on to the
same, and the mild hammered, consistent
Sam Carey run for lieutenant governor on
the free whisky plank thereof. Oh, no,
it cannot be possible. We wonder not that
MacMahon, whose miraculous CONVEX
sion" on divers questions has been notice.
abler in his righteous indignation moved
that the newspaper correspondent be "de-
barred from the privilege of the floor du-
" ring the remainder of the session"
There Is further reason why this scan
dalous story is unworthy of belief. The
correspondent locates these men who are
either utterly debauched or wickedly be-
lied, in asking "why the representatives of
" SO many of the rural towns of lold Itch
field should have lost all shame and be
ready to sell their votes to the highest
81 bidder? He is talking about the present
year OF grace and reform, 1875, not of a
century ago. Had he referred to Itch
| field county of century or more ago, he
might have been entitled to credence, for
then sold Litchfield" produced such men
from the British government, Seth War
rem, who aided General Stark in "kidnap-
| ping" lot of German soldiers at Benning-
ton and actually deprived them of theiI
liberty; Thomas Chittenden, who 'confis
Gated" the land and other property OF
Tories and then denied the jurisdiction OF
New York over Vermont; Remember Ba
ker, who delighted in applying the "beecl
seal" to the naked backs of Workers Ma
thaniel Chapman, who gave form and sta
bility to our system of laws and jurispru
dencc and boosted of personal friendship
with such bad men as George Washington
aud Alexander Hamilton; and host O.
other men of the same stamp. When "olC
Litchfleld" produced such men, these thing
might have been possible. But now
The correspondent evidently knows littl
or nothing Of what he is talking about
Does lie not remember that cold Litch
field is represented in congress by tina
devoted, hard working public servant VIII
forgot TO return his "back pay" until h
saw bis forgetfulness was likely to defea
his reelection who is SD anxious not t
misreprescnt any Of his constituents tina
he is always recorded as "absent or nc
voting" on every important question an
thus keeps company with our Vernon
George? Does he forget that other di'
= tinguished native of ''old Litchfeld" VIII
has just been tried for a heinous oifcns
and, with the presumption of innocenc
and good character in his favor, receive
that emphatic moral acquittal of di
agreeing jury and has, in consequent
thereof, had his salary raised TO hundre
thousand dollars and is being "ovated"
The idea that such county could produt
legislators, "reform" democrat ones too, {
, easy virtue is simply preposterous. I'll
Legislature of Connecticut, instead of il
vestigating, ought to have adopted the SUI
gestion of that wicked republican, Clev
t land, called upon all who had been bride
5 to ''Iise and say so,' aud then "dcbarrt
( from the privileges of the floor that i
q quisitive, misunderstanding newspaper co
respondent.