Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-08-23
Ssme Pertinent Questions.
Essex COUNTY, Aug. 10, 1873.


To the Editor of the Free Press and Times.
l wish to ask the Republicans of the
Third District, What valid reasons can be
given for voting the boilers nomination
Gen. Grout made much better fight in
the canvass before the Convention than even
his friends expected he would. and threw ten
votes more on the first ballot in Convention
than hi, opponents had conceded to him.
In that Convention he lost not q vote from
beginning to end, showing that he had friends
that could not be induced to leave him. Is
| it any wonder that Col. Albert Clarke was
ashamed to make a speech at the boilers
Convention, after what he said in the Hyde
| park Convention, when he moved to make
the nomination unanimous? Do you wonder,
brother Republicans, that after Mr.. Barlow
made the remarks in Gen. CIRCUITS room, in
presence of nearly twenty Of the best men
in the District, that they had had good
square fight and that he had got beaten and
he would guarantee that he and his friends
would give him no further trouble-do you
wonder that he did not want to say much in
| Convention at st. Adams, on Saturday /!
Should you not honestly think his "heart
| would be full'' Of fears of a defeat, on Sep
| TENDER 3rd, that would be final and ever
lasting?
II seems that the Dormans are taking
quite an active part in the bolt. | believe
| i. has not been denied that one of them went
t, Derby and got Human to 90 with him
to bride an honest delegate. | know all
these men-Mr. Carpenter, llinman and
Dorman. | am positive that Mr.. Carpeh-
ter told the truth. Mr.. Human was al
ways rake, ready for any dirty job. Per-
haps Mr.. Barlow knew nothing Of it, but
| it would have been Barlow's money that
settled the bill if it had succeeded. Perhaps
it was not Barlow's money that was put
into the hands Of the Sa,em delegate but
don't you think he would have paid it in
the end? Of course, Mr.. Barlow did not
know that after or during the fifth ballot,
that some Of those delegates who were sup
posed to be throwing the scattering votes
had Barlow votes put into their hands
marked $1,000" What did that mean?
Gen. Grout went into the canvass with
a tact and energy that Is characteristic oil
the man. lie went in to win and to win
honestly, and he and his friends that so nobly
stood by him then, and will on September
3rd, intended to stand honestly by the square
result of the Convention. had talk with
the General Just before the Convention and
again during that day. and he gave not the
first ntimation Of doing anything but abid-
ing by their decision.
The Messenger says Gen. Grout did not
show any magnaninity, as did Mr.. Barlow.
At the time Gen. Grout made his speech ac
ceptiny the nomination, he did not know
that Col. Clarke had moved to make it
unanimous And at that time Mr.. Barlow
had not been to him and taken him by the
hand and congratulated him on his success
and promised to bury the Ratchet. Now he
says his "heart is iull'' and he is sin the
hands of his friends and II elected he will
do so and so. Is that promise any more
likely to be kept than the one he made at
Hydepark in presence Of some Of the best
men in the district? Most certainly not.
have lived in the same town and as a neigh
Dor of the General and know him to be
stirring, energetic. live man "a man that
commenced at the bottom Of the ladder and
has worked himself up by his own untiring
energy. lie will make good Member of
Congress and all honorable Republicans
should vote for him at the coming election.
Let all honest voters show that nomination
squarely made and acquiesced in shall be
confirmed by a rousing majority at the polls,
5. A. |.