Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-10-25
MEMBER OF CONGRESS.


AT the coming election for member
of Congress, plurality will elect.
If the vote shall stand as before, or
anything like it, Mr.. Barlow will Of
course go to Congress. How it will
stand can only be conjectured. Pro-
badly the total vote will be somewhat
less, because at special elections it is
usually less than at general elections,
but the indications are, that if we all
do our duty, Mr.. Barlow's proportion
Of it will be much larger than before.
We have yet to hear of the first man
who supported him in September that
does not intend to vote for him in
November; and on the other hand we
continually see and hear Of men who
voted for General Circuit then, on the
ground that he was the nominee Of
the convention, who say that Mr..
Barlow is now nominated, under all
sanctions of law, and that the true
interests Of the district and Of the Re-
publican rarty require his election.
What will be done by Gen. Grout,
Or in his behalf, does not yet appear
We hear Of him frequently in differ
ent parts Of the district, calling upon
his friends to stand by him, and ex-
pressing great confidence Of being
Swung in by a return Of the pendu-
lnm." But his comparison is not well
chosen. The people Of the third dis
trict are too intelligent to be inert mat
ter, vibrating to and fro by machi-
merry, and acOing only as they are
acted upon. Their action was rather
a positive advance step in the march
Of political events, indicating a de-
cided preference between the men, a
strong protest against years of self
seeking and lawyer plotting and pack :
ing for nomination, and a desire,
also, to be represented i'll Congress
by business man, man of deeds
more than of words, whose published
letters and successful career have
shown him to understand the subject
Of finance, and whose long familiarity
with public business and prominent
men will make him useful and give
hun standing and influence which few,
if any, new members from Vermont
have ever had. In the fierceness Of
the campaign he was, Of course, much
mlsrepresented by his enemies, but in
personal sense his vindlcation was
most complete by the well nigh unani-
nous vote give him in the towns of
Franklin County in which he has
always lived, and in a broader and
more political sense bis Justification
was ample in the unexpectedly large
vote which he received throughou
the district, and especially in those
quarters where opposition papers were
most scattered, and where the most
money and work and influence of Gen
circuit and his friends were brought to
bear, There is now abundant evil
dence of 9 further justification that is
even better than this, and it is found
in the fact that none Of the party cries
Of " hcresy," Imitation" green
back mania," " craze" " dema-
gogism," etc., are having any effect
whatever to mislead or Tighten men
who read and think for themselves.
He stands upon the principles enun-
ciated in his letters Of 1867 and
1874, which we presume all our rea-
ders have seen and which we would
advise them TO carefully read again.
He then favored rcfunding the govern
ment bonds in new security at a
lower rate Of interest. Years after
wards the government got around to
do it. He recommended the preser-
walton of the grcenback currency, aud
its maintenance at par with coin, and
at last the government has been com
PEELED to adopt that policy. He re-
commended the substitution Of green
backs for national bank notes mot
the abolition Of national banks, as has
been falsely represented), and he also
favored plan to give elasticity to
the volume OF currency, SO that it
should never be made too scarce by
extraordinary demands of business OF
by "corners" created by spectators,
and should never become redundant
or Inflated by oyer issues, or depes.
sion in business, OF the freaks of poll.
tics. These two last-named mea-
sures remain for the future. In what
form or forms they will come up, if al
all, no man can tell. But it is sulli
cient for us to know that if we senc
Mr.. Barlow to Congress, we have {
representative who is master of the
subject, who has led in wise, honest
and economical measures that the
people have tardily como to under.
lstand and the government has more