Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-08-16
THE BURLINGTON VT.

| Messenger admits that Mr. Barlow went I,
Gen. CIRCUITS room, congratulated him on hi
success, and assured him that he BARLOW,
should give him no more trouble. This was
as the Messenger says, manly thing, wor
thy of large heart and generous soul, ant
it should not now try to belittle the act Of
deprive it of its manly significance, or re
greet that it was DONE
We are glad to hear that Mr.. Barlow re
mains in that attitude. But he must set
that he Is in danger of being seriously com
promised by the course of his St. Alban'
organ. lie has been praised as man Of hi
word, and We have given him credit for be
ing such The true man of his word, VI
take it, is he who stands by his word, eiver
under a worthy and manly impulse, ever
when men of less magnanimity urge him t.
60 back on it. Mr.. Barlow has only to Dc
this, fully and really, and not merely ir
seeming, to stand better in the District thar
he has ever done before.
Party obligations.
To the Editor ofthe Free Press and Times.
was not in the State during the District
canvass, which resulted in the nomination Of
Gen. Grout for Congress. am not, there
fore, competent to make any comments as to
how it was managed, or how much unfair
ness and cheating was going on. But if ]
nav be allowed to judge from what l have
heard since. in various parts Of the District,
| should say that if there was not cheating
done on both sides, then both sides have lied
very wickedly; because, very foolishly they
have both Dragged of the cute things they
have done.
But when Mr.. Clarke rose in the Conven-
ton, and, at the suggestion of MIR. Barlow
moved to make the nomination Of his oppo-
nent, who had bare majority, unanimous,
it seemed to me that all opposition to Mr..
Grout had been laid aside, and that nothing
but the graycst reasons could justify its be-
ing taken up again.
1t is matter Of taste, about which people
may differ, as to whether the gleeful para
graphs and Dragging notices Mr.. Grout re-
ceivcd after the nomination should have
been published or not but certainly the
party that could lay out man of Mr..
Barlow's wel.-known tact, ability and stand
ing as competent man for the place, had
some grounds for feeling funny all over.
As mere looker-on after the campaign had
ended and nothing remained to denote the
great struggle, but few warriors who still
stood on the street corners and related how
they slew or got slowed during the fight, and
listening TO the tales Of how the money
few may be permitted to remark that
nearly all this trash about "copious supplies
of greenbacks," in the light of the we'll
known empty pockets of nearly all those
who tell these Financial tales" | am in
clined to think that "long expectations"
never to be realized. produced an effect such
as bad milk does on babies; and that these
virtuous, money refusing children of political
pap-houses found their stomachs "soured"
on Barlow because he didn't offer to buy
them, as their previous experiences and we'll
known passive reeeptivity" entitled them
to expect would be done.
As a matter Of policy it looks little
botanical to see the friends of successful
candidate making up faces and calling names
and shying spittoons sat the pupils on the
other side Of the school house, after they
have Joined in and shouted "hurrah" for
the new head boy; and it is not to be won
dered at that when all get outside in the
cool air, some pugnacious ones begin to fill
their pockets with stones. But all that is
boys play. The Convention probably was
managed in a "knock down and drag-out"
style, and the victors came out so nearly
"scalpcd' that it would make horse
laugh to see any chance for Dragging, while
"Dolt, because of these petty attacks of
the Grout "ring worms" would seem to
crown the folly of a sadly managed cam
paign.
Had Mr.. Barlow's friends refused to
assent to the nomination being made unani-
nous, as Mr.. CIRCUITS friends most certainly
would have done had they been besten,-for
l understand many Of them had avowed
they would not stand the nomination Of Mr..
Barlow any way, but were ready to repeat
the tactics invented by Mr.. Grout in the
Baxter campaign" at the Hydepark Con-
yention and bolt the Convention, even then
they could have gone before the people with
clean hands, and no one could blame them
but having gone into the Convention and
assented to the result, | cannot see how they
can be justified in boiling the nomination
made.
The defeated man was the best man, but
he did not have so many votes, and his
friends generously declared for the victor.
II, now, a bolt is justifablc, then under all
bolt is justifable where the
parties arc evenly divided, or nearly so. and
either side claim fraud on the part of their
opponents.
1t is certainly hard to be managed by the
political ripg-worm and caucus-packers and
manipulators but the remedy
will e..found, not in boiling unanimously
nominated candidate, but in rousing up the
people against all political estates" and Sc
curing some expressions Of the public will
before nominations are Iuade.
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