Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-08-30
Are We Obliged 10 Mourn .-The Feeling In
Franklin County.
F.IRF.r Auu 96 1919

ralhfAA, aug. 20, 1910
To the Editor Of the Free Press anu Times.
| have had the reading of both the st.
Adams papers before and since the Hyde
park Convention. Every issue since tho
nomination of Gen. Grout has been bur-
dened with editorials and communications
gotten up for the purpose of informing tie
psople in tho Third District how bad they
are feeling and how bad they ought to feel
because Bradley Barlow did not get what
he asked for at the hands Of the delegates
L have been looking for the mourning null
titude, but fail to fad them MIST of our
Republicans seem to be OF the opinion that
it Is soon enough to weep when they have
met with loss and when their own feel
ings, and not those OF BirlOg's Clarke or
Clarke's Barlow. invite them to put on the
panoply of Woe. The Messenger says that
the Barlow party conducted the canvass in
such pure and GOd-like manner that
to be defeated is to be abused If Nr.
Clarke has forgotten. his readers have
not. that the Messenger and other Barlow
papers have been vehicles of fslsshood and
SANDER, calculated to sm1t Gon. Grout and
crowd ahead of bin a man whose claim
upon the people was that he wanted to go
to Congress and was willing to pay for the
privilege. All OF this corruption which the
"pure party" stirred up, rose like a fog
over their own heads and on the Gath Of
July the cloud wrapped itself around Mr.
Barlow aud he was squarely defeated. He
acknowledged the same to G,n. Grout, and
promised that the Ratchet should be buried
but his subsequent conduct shows that it
was the kiss of Judas that was on his lips.
Now, Mr.. Barlow presents the spectacle
Of man sinking by bis own weight Day
by day he sinks lower and lower, and the
hnr. ka sd
the rescue turn from the scene disguised
and indignant. Still he grssps at every
straw.
And now his former friends are aston ish-
ed to find their champion in bed with
party whose only idea is anything for a
change" They call for moro greenbscks,
and Mr.. Barlow appears and informs them
that he is the Moses to take them through
the Wilderness. They try to get on to the
Boilers chariot, and are met with the I'M
expected words: "if you are going to get
on, We shall get off, Those who are in
earnest want to put In nomination Green
back county ticket but this. say the Bar
low party, will never do. We must not bolt
the county ticket. Now. the Greenbackers
begin to see that they have been caught by
one who only wishes to make tool OF them.
They see and say that this Gfeenbick bust
ness Is only Barlow movement, and Bar
low is really not to be trusted as Green
back man, or in any other way. so down
goes this Greenbsck nominee in the estims-
ton Of all true men. We expect the next
straw grssped by him will be the Demo
Gratis. who may, BY ways that are dark, be
induced to clasp the hard of tho bolter and
try to drag him to the surface.
Gen. Grout, by the gent'emsnly course
he has pursued since the Convention, and
a kk.S
sble to bring up anything against him, is
Tally gaining friends In Franklin county,
md the vote the 81 of September will show
hat tho people in the boiling county think
more of the Republican party than they do
II Bradley Barlow. An OLD VOTSR.