Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-26
THE BARLOW BOLT.

Hon. Bradley Barlow, of st. Adams,
having failed in desperate Struggle to
secure the regular Republican nominal
ton for Congress. now expects to get
himself elected by Democratic votes.
In order to accomplish this he has Sc
cured the nomination of the Third Dis
trict Greenback Convention. which met
at Essex Junction, Saturday, at the
nomination of a mass convention held at
ST. Albans. the sameday. and now hopes
to get votes enough at the September
election to prevent General circuit from
having majority. and then at the spec
ial election, when aplurality elects, to
get the Democrats under the manage
ment of his nephew, Bradley Barlow
Smalley, Esq, of Burlington, and his
friend, Hon. JOSEPH Rand, of St. Adams.
to vote for him. ami thus secure the nee
essary plurality of votes. This is the
plan, and if the Republicans of the
Third District are not alert and faithful
to their duty it may succeed. The mass
convention at st. Adams Saturday was
managed with much more skill than Mr..
Barlow's previous campaign. There
was band of music which played every
two or three Minutes, drum corps and
the st. Adams Glee Club to fire the boil
ters' hearts, aud in all the arrangements
particular attention was paid to the
lights and shades. the chiaroscuro of
political effect In the resolutions sop
was thrown to the Greenbackcrs. an at
tempt was made to placate the Demo-
crsts, and to keep the word of promise
ofreform to the ear of the Independents
While leaving ample room and verge to
break it to their hopes and so secure the
support of the "Stalwarts.'
And what was all this for Simply to
crafty the wishes of man who has an
linordinate anxiety to be in Congress.
The reasons publicly proclaimed for
this bolt are trivial and unworthy. The
men who are engaged in it are not gov
erned by any political principle. They
are not Greenbackers, except as they are
Barlow men. Col. Albert Clarke of st.
Albans, who has been for several years
Dir. Barlow's exponent, that .'he had
been delegate to the Convention at
IHydepark, and had there accepted the
result, and it was upon his motion that
Gen. CIRCUITS nomination was made unan-
lmous. He had felt, therefore, that un-
less some good reason existed why that
action should not stand approved, he. of
all men, was bound by it. After the
Hydepark Convention Mr.. Barlow prom
Used Gen. Circuit his support, telling him
that he should not trouble him any
more. But neither Col. Clarke or Mr..
Barlow have given any good reasons for
boiling the nomination. The most they
can say is that the Free Press, news
paper which supported Gen. circuit, insul-
ted the Barlow men by saying that Gen.
CIRCUITS " nomination was vindication
of clean, honest, and straight forward
methods in politics. That is their only
complaint. The real reason. as before
stated, is that Mr.. Barlow wants to 60 tc
congress, and Col. Clarke and others are
lnder such obligations to him that they
ire willing to bolt regular nomination
lhich they had made unanimous, with
ut any reasons of public character tt
lstify their action. We trust that The
tue Republicans of the Third Distric
vii not be influenced by the martha
airs of the Glee Club and the band o
q music to vote for man who will il
any degree place the Republican party
q the State IN a false position on tn,
currency question. and give aid and com
fort to the agitators of the .'sand lot
or the street, who are doing all they Cal
to introduce in this country social ant
commercial chaos.-Rutlaad Herald.