Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-08-04
Candidate Phelps.

While we are by no means sure that the
previous complimentary illusions of certain
Republican aud independent journals in and
out of the state 10 the Hon. +. j. Phelps
availed to secure his nomination for gov
ernor by the ID mocrats, we are fully conf
dent of tbis-that those fattering utterauces
served to foster his self-esteem and stimu-
late his hopes in accepting the nomination,
and at the same time added largely to the
expectations of the party in placing him be-
fore the public. But once in nomination,
both Mr.. Phelps and his party supporters
will find that he must pass through the same
ordeal as other candidates, and if there is
anything in his political tenets and record
which prove his candidacy by the Demo-
cratic party to be a ridiculous farce, and
that he is utterly unworthy of the support
of the intelligent freemen of Vermont, SO
much the worse for him. From present APP
pearances there would seem to be consdera.
BILE of this work 10 be done-sufficient to
keep the Democratic press of the state, and
even his Republican apologist of the Free
Press, tolerably busy until September. We
copy below some comments of the Middle
bury Register published where Mr.. Phelps
was born and reared.
The Republican papers Of the considerable space
to saying things about MIR. Phelps the Democratic
nominee for governor There no occasion for IT, Al
lowing Mr. PHELPS all the ability and The personal good
cal opirons beneath the contempt Of any who be-
lieyeS in the Declaration Of ndependence man who has
where every babe draws in with ts mothers milk the truth
right TO life liberty pursuit of happiness and Whose
experience from youth TO manhood ought to have taught
every man in well-orerei and progressive society and
proeans as his own IDEAS utterly repusnsni to these p
cples who asserted that slavery the gtful condition Of
through thick and thin through all their wicked
!emps 70 force slavery into the free north who sanctioned
the free soil Of Kansas who loudly nosed his sympathy
hands against the nations lfe who through the
oced at northern defeats and moarned al northern vic
his lowly birth and lack Of early culture; who all
eonempt for the and ony %ohps wealth
and power such man whatever he may be in other
minded vernonter Had he been brought up in Tie south
as stakeholder hi, expression Of such opinions should be
for northern man of his antecedens b go thus directly
shoes of his superior race of the south MS man
parts OF Its development. His great talents and culture
only intensity This feeling against him. So long Mr..
Phelps confined himself 10 private life there call
io any one to EXPRESS publicly their disgust al the enseess
the ruler OF state of that north which he has always at
teced to look down upon there ia occasion to handle
him enderly The reemen of Vermont do forget that
Mr. Phelps has always been OF the worst Of the pes
brood Of doughaces and coppefheads which
Tested the north and look to see their opinion Of him
expressed In the heaviest majority against him ever regis
tered In the state II Mr. Phelps seeks political prefeent,
let him betake himself his beloved among
tailed savedriver, bu-dOzers and white eagIers and
what they would do for whom they would
a traitor 10 his own state