Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-07-26
The Victory In South Hero.
BY o. C. W.

BY o. @. ".
To the Editor of the Free Press and Times
We can now, after our experience in
South Hero, believe almost anything that
| anybody can say Of the manner in which
the Barlow men conduct their campaign.
Their desperation has made them shameless.
All st. Albans. was going to say, has
been over here. If, during the absence of
its brave defenders, Canada had made a
raid upon that almighty little metropolis,
what would have become of their banks
They have acted as if we Islanders had mo
rights that white men are bound to respect. )"
They lot only begged our suffrages for their
candidate but wrote votes for delegates,
and peddled them shout town. Think OF
such impudence L; was none Of their
business. and their presuming upon our
debasement and simplicity filled every decent
man among US with burning Indignation.
One of them had the shameless audaeity
to approach Deacon W. G. Irish with an
offer of money The Deacon looks plain in
his hsying regaiis, and it was probably
thought that money would have an attraction
for him. even if offered as a bribe. lie was
the wrong man for them. One might Just
as successfully try to bribe old Mansfield to
leap into the lake as to seducs from his
integrity our bravo, battl.-scarred soldier
Deacon.
The readers Of the FREE Pass need not
otto -
self-respect it was to have our people so in
suited in the person of Deacon lrish by
our unprincipled visitors. One Of them said
to me, 81 am running this thing" Think
Of it ! This lawyer claimed to be very de-
voted friend of Mr.. Barlow, and was equal
led in audac'ty only by the butter-buyer.
Others of our citizens were offered money.
They did not rate Ia very high, the most
that ives offered, 50 far as We know, being
$40. One of their men offered two votes.
and another voted who has not yet been
naturaliZed,- and yet, with money,
beer, and all other inducements, they polled
only % votes for Barlow. circuit had 80.
The caucus was large, lacking but one of
being equal to the Republican vote OF 1876.
The Barlow men disguised even their own
friends, and one, perhaps both. of their car
didates voted with us. The st. Adams men
were assisted by a queer little delegation
from Milton, consisting of liquor seller
and Frenehman. Their attempt to bribe
the tenant of Senator Landon was riticu-
lousy unsuccessful. No such outrageous
insult was ever perpetrated upon US, so far
as we know, as has been done by these St.
Adams missionaries. | had suffered unut-
tara .faaf al
from our dear old Charlotte. Something
must have been grossly wrong there-those
people rarely, if ever, so Disgrace them
selves but South Hero won't be such
"household treasure" to Mr.. Barlow as the
Messenger says Charlotte will be. The
leader of the St Adams raiders said that he
came to keep the Democrats from interior
ing to help them. The Democrats behaved
themselves as gentleman should, probably
on account of the efforts of that St. Adams
lawyer The truth is. | doubt whether
there is thoroughly respectable Democrat
in town who would have voted with them
We hopo such exhibition of foreign i'm
pudence. and shameless etrontery will
never be inflicted upon US again. We can,
upon pinch. paddle our own canoe, even
if we are 20 miles away from ST. Adams.
the centre of boundless political and other
influences, whose capacious nav yesrns for
all the high places it can get for its enter
prising citizens.
We 90 not object to her citizens doing
what they can, in an honorable way, to
persuade us, but when they undertake to
run US, and buy our Republican voters. they
haye learned that we are not many of US
for sale.
If the rest of the Grand Isle county
delegates do what is expected OF them, We
shall be greatly surprised. | was told by a
North Hero gentleman that the delegates of
that town are unpledged.
There were SO votes east in Grand Isle in
1875. In their caucus there were about 30
present. From what | know of Grand
Isle people, l am morally certain they
would not acquiesce III such sha meless pro-
ceedings as were witnessed here.
would not have written at such length,
if did not feel that the honest people of
the Third District should know what was
going on, and By what means the Barlow
men hope to wiz.