Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-04-12
THE RECENT DEMOCRATiC

m6etlnS VI representative uelnOCTdts lTom
various parts of the State who met at
Montpelier says:
The utmost good feeling prevailed
during the evening, There was a pre-
vailing practical unanimity on most
subjects, and when gentlemen differed
thew differed as gentlemen should. Of |
the more than three score representa-
tive men there assembled. it is not stat
ing it too strong to say that least four
ffths were impressed with the belief
that Gen. w. S. Hancock is the strong
est man that can be selected as the
Democratic nominee for President. Ma
ny said that if they thought Mr.. Tilden
would be as strong a candidate as Gen.
Hancock. they should favor Mr.. Tilden.
But they felt that the nomination of
Mr.. Tilden meant defeat; that of Gen.
Hancock victory. The only out-and-out
Tilden man who spoke was George NJ.
Fisk. who is always radical in his
friendship or opposition. Col. Dickey.
Mr.. Smalley, DR.. Hanrahan, Mr.. Red
ington, Henry Gillett, DR.. Butler, Mr..
Bliss, Maj. Bowman, G. M. Chase, Capt.
McGafey, and all who expressed any
views on the question of the Presidency,
said they we're for the strongest man,
and as at present advised believed Gen.
Hancock to be that man. 1t is an un-
doubted fact that to-day the Democrats
of Vermont are as strongly for Gen.
Hancock as they were for Mr.. Tilden
four years ago. This feeling seems to
be spontaneous one, too not worked
up, and brought out. Before the argus
and Patriot said word on the subject,
it found this to be the feeling, and in
what it has said it has only attempted
to voice the sentiments of the Democrats
of the State, not to lead in making
those sentiments.
The people have got sick of depend
ing on leaders. Leaders have led to
too many successive defeats and what
voters want now Is to be led to victory.
This is no year for experiments. The
name of Gen. Hancock is slogan that
will lead to triumph, and that is why
the people are for him. If Gen. Han
cock is elected President by the Demo
Gratis. the Republican bulldozers will
not dare to attempt to put Gen. Grant
or any other man into the Presidential
chair. There needs to be some heroism
infused into the Democratic party, and
Gen. Hancock is the man to do it. The
heroic has been knocked out of the par
ty. and now it is going to be put back
Self-conceited leaders led to the electo
raj commission of 1877, and we al
know what the result was. Now tn,
masses of the party propose to hav'
something to say about 1t, and thes
masses are for Gen. Hancock. The i'm
portant thing in the contest of 1880 j
not that this or that man shall succeed
but that the Democratic principles shall
triumph. Men are comparatively moth
ing 4; Democratic principles everything
For this reason the Democrats of Yer
mont are for Gen. Hancock. Their pre-
> ference is not, however, the worship @
man, and should not be looked upo
as such.
The Union thus comments on tn
q conference and the improperly of ST
. Letting Gen. Badly" Smith as demo
traffic delegate from Vermont:
: From this meeting it is evident tia
9 Vermont at the Convention on the %
: of April will elect delegates to the Gu
: cinnati convention, to express frs
g choice for Hancock.
n The question of who shall be del
y gates did not come up, though it W;
:. in the air that there was desire on tt
part of some to make General Bald
. Smith a delegate at large, and chat
man of the delegation. While we def
; to none in respect for the PATRIOTS
. and ability of Gen. Smith we still ia
IS to see the proprlety of making him Il
4 chairman of, or any part of, the We
n mont delegation to the national conve
II ton. For thirty years or more &c
10 Smith has been citizen of New Yol
# and, though in patriotism and polite
u sentiment. he could truthfully represe
;s Vermont democrats, the fact of aaon-reS
n dence still stands out conspiculousl
i The fact that Gen. Smith was called i
n to the State, as an educated milital
- man, to lead Vermont soldiers duril
i the rebellion, is very different thil
h from calling Gen. Smith into the Sta
no to represent Vermont politics in del
ocratic national convention. One W
a. necessary and quite proper. The 9th
is unnecessary and eminently imprope
70 The party cannot go out of the Sta
al for delegate, no matter how good
10 man he may be, without confessing
- lack of suitable material in the hor
y ranks. 1t cannot be done without So
II ri6ce of party dignity, and we have
~ a sufficient superabundance of that CO.
10 modify on hand to justify the sacrif'
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