The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-07-14

q belief warranted by his beb A,r,r and
Affiliations that his votes at Montl. e,
would be hostile to the prohibltor, .w
and thus contrary to what 10 claimed to
be majority sentiment of the county.
They object 10 being represented by one
whose votes would be hostile to the
temperance cause. As Mr.. Fletcher has
announced, and rs Is we'll understood
his votes will be III accordance with the
wishes OF his temperance constituents 8,
aud go the silly comparison made by
The Vermonter has 10 point in this COLI
nection,
Neither the Register publicly nor its
editor privately has ever, by word or
implication, "lauded" the franklin
House as temperance hotel, or ever
made 30 much as remark to the effect
that 1t was q temperance hotel. In our
issue Of March 81 last, our Vergennes
correspondent stated that its pr ,prietor
declined to sell liquor In Difference to
public sentiment. Whereupon ii was
remarked editorially that
"f MIR. Jackson has taken this al and
In good faith, all temperance men who
know the conditions of the hotel bust.
ness In Vergennes ought to take pains
TO do their part toward seeing that he
suffers no loss In his competition with
a hotel whose proprietor has declared
his defiance OF the law and his deter
mination TO continue tho illegal sale.
In ahnrt. If Vergennes at Last Possesses
temperance hotel, temperance men
should give 1t their patronage every
time"
The above Ia all this paper has ever
said of temperance In connection with
the Franklin House. We think our
readers will agree that the amount Of
"lauding" that house as temperance
hotel by this paper is too small to have
engaged the attention of the Vermont
er's editorial writer unless he obtained
his ideas directly from a jealous rum.
selling hotel man who remembers every
word or act of favor toward q rival as
a personal afiront to himself. As re.
z ards our "cranky desire to punch
Gaines" we must confess to q taste for
punching" defiant criminals who act
the part of profane bullics aud black
guards toward estimablo clergymen
and other citizens that undertake TO do
citizens duties in securing the enforce
ment of the laws of the land,
1t is pleasant to have the Vermont
er's assurance that "Gaines persistently
refuses to sell liquor" And yet, if we
remember rightly, the proprietor of
the Vermonter only a few short weeks
since testified under oath that he had
procured drinks at the Stevens House,
as did two other men, while q short
time previously Mr.. Gaines himself
plead guilty TO thirty offences. We have
understood for some time that MIR.
Gaines "persistently refuses TO sell liq-
uor" when there is danger of any in.
convenient eyes being around which
might be looking for evidence, but
have not learned that he has experien-
ced any change of heart on the subject
of liquor selling, or of language con.
corning "meddling temperance fanat.
ics."
Passing by the insinuatlon concern.
80 - D--s-A--.
pondence, we presume the Verlnonter
seeks to convict the Register of telling
two different stories concerning the ear.
ly projects Of the Stevens House clique
And yet the matter is very simple one
to explain. Mr.. Scranton, then out o.
the state, was first talked of for the
senatorsh;p, and mention of the fac
was made In the Montpelier Argus o.
March 20 or April 8, we forge which
That paper is generally pretty well in
formed concerning the projects of the
rum ring, and its favorable mention o.
Mr.. Scranton was not made without
some authority for tho statement tha
he Was to be put forward. The matter
had been talked about in Vergennes fol
some time previously. But it was de.
clded that Mr.. Scrsnton's license rec
old would work against him for {
county nomination, and SO Mr.. Read
as man less known and without leg
islativo record, was selected for senator
while MIR. Scranton 10 to be the repre-
sentative from Vergennes in the mex
Legislature, thus giving them two votel
against our prohibitory law. Their plans
: have worked all right thus far, the onl,
remaining question being whether thu
voters Of the county are to be mad,
tools to carry out the purposes of thu
Stevens House rum ring.
The public will be glad to get the ex
PLANTATION Of tho divided result of thu
Panton caucus, but will doubtless b,
somewhat mystified as to the pro
cess by which such nearly unanimous
body was so tangled upas to elect fo
4 half of Its delegates men opposed to 1T
preferred candidate. 1t syas singular
, manipulation. The manipulation mus
have been drunk.
! Tho Register has not "called upon
any one to head temperance ticket
1t has not even mentioned w. s
:. Wright, being fully aware of his sta
tus in respect to Mr.. Read. We hav,
repeated the suggestions Of others, an,
! they were merely made as suggestions
. as We know that the temperance voter
of the county are amply able to settl
that question for themselves.
The Vermonter editor wonld do xvel