Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-06-21
The state COnventiOn-Again.

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which we copy on the fourth page Of
this issue of the AGE. makes it n duty
we owe to ourself and the democracy
of this congressional district to say a
word or two more. Brother Atkins
THINKS that our food did not Sc! very
well while at the capitol, 1t never
set better; and any person who puts
himself in charge of our friend, Geo.
p. Foster, of the "Union," will have
no regrets in this respect and, as
Milton says,
- how simple, to his Gates compar'd
Was that crude apple that diverted Eve.
But we are DEPRESSING from our sub.
jet. Atkins says no one at Montpe-
lier knows why Messrs. Chase and
Chamberlin were not rcnominated AS
we'll as Mr.. Bingham Then why
was brother Atkins and his serra,'ts
so anxious to adjourn for dinner after
the nomination of Mr.. Bingham,
when it would not take a second to
nominate the rest of the ticket ? On
re-assemblng the managers were alb
sent, but servant who had the cue
put the thing through before half the
members were in their seats, and yet
no one at Montpelier knows anything
about the matter. Strange, that. In
our hastily written article on the con
ventiop, also copied in Argus and Pot
riot, we made mistake or two. One
was that the delegates at large were
all taken from the first district. This
was not so, but they were all taken
from the north part of the state, and
about rs near together as an old farm
er would plant his potatoes. We ex-
pected that Messrs. Smalev and Gil
man would be chosen from that section
OF the state, and we worked in their
interest, brt had no idea that tire
whole four would be taken from the
home o.e the argus and Patriot. Hi,
ram says we advised to call the con
vention as II was called, at a meeting
held at Montpelier last October. We
did so advise, with the understanding
that the districts should have the
same rish,s at Montpelier, as i the
conventions were held in the several
districts. and that each district should
nominate Its own delegates, either be-
fore or after The general convention.
This was to save expense in calling
ard attending the district conventions.
The Maine democracy did this ve.w
thing and nominated their district
delegates in caucusses before tire gen
eral convention assembled. Atk IS
bubbles over our putting SIR" at tae
end of Mr.. Williams name. tbs IS
a small hole He piles The "soft soap
over friend Pollard, and goes on to
say he only had the votes of Windsor
County, that he labored under the dis
advantage &C being young man;
that ne was not known, etc. low
was it in the caucus, where the demo-
Gratis from the four counties comp:is-
i"g the district met half an hour oe
fore the general convention organized ?
There he had two votes to Mr. Will
hams one. What did J. NJ. Weeks,
who nominated Williams, mean after
she caucus adjourned and d. G. Pol
lard and J. w. Bliss wee elected, by
say; 6, ''gentlemen, you have clicked
us square, but we will burst this e'ec.
ton ia general conven'ion?' AS we
sad in on. former article Oh this sub
ject, we haze no enmity coward Mr..
Williams, and considered him can
didate for delegate at large, until the
fourth and last delegate, Jasper Rand,
OF St. Adams, was elected The Ar
gus says we have done injustice to
some one. Not a bit OF it, but some
one has done injustice to the democ-
racy of Windsor county and the sec
ond congressional district, and they
dont reside very far from the capital,
e'ther. We are asked why we don't
pitch into the settlers" up at Lyndon?
We lost all interest in the matter after
Mr.. Pollards defeat, but we could
have routed Mr.. Chase from seat at
St. Louis il we had been so disposed,
but he being a brother editor and from
this district, we concluded to remain
quiet and let him slide. One question
to close with: If there was no "slate"
Or ":ing" how came those printed bal
lots so handy in contested cases ?
With these few remarks upon disa-
greeahle subject, we finally leave 1t,
and turn our batteries upon the com
mon enemy.