Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-07-30


JEEIcuo, July 2l.
To the Editor Of The Free Press and Times:
1t occurs to me that some time ago there
was an Item" in your paper asking for
further information, concerning Il certain
Essex Junction" convention, and | cheer
fully give your readers all the light | have
upon the subject. / was not Il delegate, nor
was present in that convention. Ny in
formation concerning the proceedings, which
were referred to 10y me, at the recent county
convention. was received from Hon. L. y.
Cotton of Bolton. about four or five weeks
before our last convention. Mr.. Cotton was
a delegate and took part in the Essex con-
vention. lie was also chairman Of the Bol
ton delegation in ,he last county convention
and heard all my statements there. Mr.. Col
ton happened TO he at Jericho on the morn
ing of July 9th, when your daily paper of
that date was received here, and his attention
was called to the column aut! Il halt that WAS
devoted to me, and he personally corroboratcd
all said in the recent craveution upon TIE
subject of the Essex convention, and he also
detailed particulars Of The same quite fully
and any further information concerning tdt
convention if il is absolutely necessary that
they should be rchearscd AT this time, can be
obtained, | presume, by addressing Hon.
Edwin n Cotton, West Bolton. Vermont.
offer the above by way OF explanation.
lest some might possibly hc led tp accept
your theory. that WAS stupid enough 10 be
thus publicly drawing ON NY ina .ina,ion 10
carry point,
am now and have been siu.'c the county
convention strongly of the opinion that no
possible good could result from newspaper
controversy over the results Nere Nstitd,
and my diet since that time las been too
highly seasoned with blank verse and ma
chine poetry to he at tbs tiMe or hsHctOrh
led into any further discussion of NoSS qucs
tons the only result of which would I've To
furnish nOurishmcnt to our common pultlca!
enemies.
But rs vour columns appear recently :"
have been thrown open tn 6nNtTidchtrS Tor
the discussion of personal issues long since
deaf and buried, | presume shall he par
doncd for Just referring To the article III your
edition of July 10, pmporIing Ia cmamie
from Jericho and signed hy H"5odg. am
persuaded the article could not have been
written by resident here, for it does not
seem possible that any one who should have
knowledge enough of the facts 10 presume
TO give them TO the public, could so miSsep-
sent them all, unless he could justly clam the
well earned title. Prince of drccivers.
Now | am moi Mexican enough to under
stand this guerrilla kind al warfare that stais
its victim in the dark or waylays him in tine
ambush And only desire To say that near
ly every proposition made in that article Is
a6sOlutrlg tiis.'-and if the writer of that bit
ter personal attack las the coHrIgt, the 1idr-
h,,ss, To make himself known, | Will prove
To him, beyond the possibility of Il doubt,
that upon every single point thai is made in
the article, thai reflects uni;:vorahly upon my
action, in the mind of any candid man, he is
simply a malicious falsiiier of the facts.
Respectfully yours,
C. = PALMER