Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-06-07
SPIRIT OF THE AGE,,.
Wednesday. June 7, 1875.
The State Convention,

idTSeSt nelu Ill IulS OLate IOf HHnS
years, there being nearly 500 delegates
present, besides hundreds who were
not delegates, but come to town to SEE
and hear. The men put before the
public, as may be seen in another col.
umn, are tried and true, and if the
people elect them they will have no
reason to regret IT,
We say the men put in nomination
are true democrats, and honest and ca
pable men. This is all true, and we
have no fault to find with one of them
as far as this is concerned, but we do
object to the manner in which some of
the nominations were brought about.
If it was proper to give Mr.. Bingham
second nomination, it was proper to
give Messrs. Chase and Chamberin
the same; they are as capable and
popular in their respective towns as
Mr.. Bingham is in his. Then why
not put them in nomination? The
coterie at Montpelier knows why. The
delegates at large are all able men, but
insn't it planting them pretty thick to
take them all from the first congress
sional district, the home of the Argus
d Patrdots Now word in regard
to the District Delegates. IN 1872,
the District Delegates were elected at
the State Convention, thing that
ought not to be tolerated by dis
trict committees, whose duty it was to
call district conventions, but they
sold out to the State Committee. Last
fall, conference of the democracy
was held at Montpelier, and among
other things it was suggested that
districts make their nominations when
the State Convention met, and there
by save expense and time of holding
district conventions As there was
no member of Congress to be nomin-
ated this year most of us at that meet
ing fell in with the idea, but it proved
ruinous to us of the second congress.
sional district, as we will shortly show.
The State Committee issued call in
which the rights of the districts were
ignored. At preliminary meeting
OF the Democracy, in the dining
rooms Of the Pavilion hotel, on
the evening previous to the con-
vention, this district business was
discussed, but under the call nothing
could be done but to make the NOM
nations in general convention. The
members of the convention present
gave notice that caucus of the Dem
ocrats OF the second congressional dis
trict would be he'd in the parlors of
Bishops hotel, at 10 o'clock next
morning, to test the feeling, preference,
etc. The meeting was fully attended
and harmonious, with one or two ex-
ceptlons, of parties who wished to alb
rogate the rights Of the districts. Sew
eral names were presented as candi-
dates, but Don G. Pollard, of Caven-
dish, and J. W. Bliss, of Bradford,
appeared to be the choice OF the dis
trict, two to one. The caucus ad-
journed. In general convention the
name of James H. Williams, Jr., of
Bellows Falls, was presented and the
Windsor County Democrats presented
the name of Mr.. Pollard, and got
'licked,' by Tom, Dick and Harry,
voting tor Williams, who had no bust
ness to-. Mr.. Pollard is a capable
business man, has filled nearly every
public office in his town, which Is
strongly republican, and the Demo-
Gratis of Windsor County and the dis
trict showed their faith in him by
sticking to him to the last. Mr.. Pol
lard came out of the fight with credit
to himself and supporters. Since writ
ing the above we have had note from
brother Atkins of the argus d Patriot
in reply to an assertion by us while at
Montpelier, that Windsor county has
had no recognition on the State COM
mittee, ETC., asking us, "Wasn't John
(Tom.) Keefe delegate to Baltimore ,
in 72'' We will answer by asking,
"Wasn't ]. H. Williams, Jr., a dele.
gate at large to the same place in
1922" Enough Of this. The Democ-
racy of the second congressional dis.
trl:t claim that d. G. Pollard, Esq, is
their first choice as delegate to St.
Louis. We have nothing personal .
against ]. II. w., but his nomination
and election was strangulation OF ]
the Democratic voice of the second
congressional district. We hope our
state committee will not abrogate the
right Of counties to nominate their
county officers hereafter, aud call them