Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-08-11
That "PoIiHoaI cyclone"

The Orleans county Republicans, smart
ing under Gen. CIRCUITS defeat, are very mad
over language used by the Montpelier Watch
man on the week of Judge Poland's nomina-
ton, and the more they think of it the mad
der they get. On the day following the dis
trict convention the Waterman came out in a
double-leaded article, headed "A Political
Cyclone, in which mention was made of the
'pygmies' who "had usurped the places at
Washington once honored by giants" and
spoke of the ''discontent and chagrin" which
possessed the people at ''the humiliating
spectacle of men of inferior mental rank put
forward as the representatives of Yermont's
glorious traditions" Farther on in the arti-
Gle it was sad
political hucksters, who could not grasp
the fact that the people had taken the choice
of representative into their own hands,
who laughed at the signs of a rising tempest
and braved its fury, are now picking them
eslves up out of the debris of the whirlwind,
battered and bruised and in a state of utter
bewilderment. Disgruntled and baffled po-
litical or personal animosity and craftsmanship
need seek neither far nor wide for an explain
alton of the overwhelming discontinue in
Wednesdays convention. The nomination
of Luke P. Poland was simply the righting
of great wrong by the people. 1t was a de-
feat by the awakened masses of junto of
politicians whose sympathies or active eff orts
were enlisted to perpetuate in the new sec
ond district a regency of mediocrity under
Grout and ultimately transfer its sovereignty
to other waiting aspirants 1t was a clear
case of the people against the politicians,
their allies and campfollowers, and the plain
! tiffs have won verdict which will be tri-
umphantly reaffirmed by the court of last re-
sort in September"
The Newport Express ID. NJ Camps pa
PERI and the Barton Monitor both pick the
matter up in leading editorials this week.
The Express Indignantly says that CIRCUITS
friends simply did their duty and behaved
themselves with propriety, and that 'they
are in no way deserving such abuse at the
hands of their successful opponents, and if
they are not 'pygmies' they will rise in their
manhood and properly resent such an insult I"
Farther on the Express says
| eyes, who are the 'scheming politicians,
the political huckstersP Where do the pet
| ty political jealousies, animosities and ambi-
tons exist? Such men as Gov. Farnham,
Gen. Thomas, ]. M. Tyler, E. P. Walton
| Dudley @. Dennison, j. L. Martin, w. p
| DlliluBuhul, ID. L. Eluelu Il. y. hlnCkley, H.
| A. Huse, s. E. Pingree, John @. Stearns, G.
H. Pitkin, Ohas. Dewey, g. B. Billiard, L..
H. Thompson and a thousand others are
pygmies all. Did the editor of the Watch
man hear the speech of that 'pygmy' Hugh
Henry, one of the most powerful convino-
ing, telling speeches that has been heard in
any such convention or any other gathering
in the state within the last decade? Did Mr..
Ropes hear it and then deliberately call its
author a 'pygmyY Nothing short of hearty
and sincere apology to thousands of deeply
insulted Republicans in the district can in
| the least atone for this unproYoked and un-
deserved assault. Apology or not, every Re
publican who has any manhood in him
should study carefully the animus which can
| prompt such treatment; as he studies it more
and more each one has O perfect right to be-
come thoroughly mad throughout every fibre
of his pygmy constitution, and then deter
mine where and how, as an individual pyg-
my, he can do most for the good of his par
ty and serve his generation the best"
The Monitor is nearly as mad as the Ex-
press and in its article says:
'It should be stated that Judge Poland,
having captured the General, is very kind
and considerate toward him, and we have no
doubt, has no ill-will. He states that he did
no work outside of Caledonia county in his
own behalf, and that his desire TO be again
nominated to Congress was begotten of q
wish that Vermont should now show to the
country that she had made mistake, if she
did not do him great injustice, when he
was retired to private life by the voters of his
old district. This is laudable desire, and
we can readily see how Judge Poland smart
ed under his defeat, and longed for a vindi
cationi but it comes rather hard on those
who thought the Judge in the wrong, and
upon those who now have higher regard
for Gen. Grout. The sacrifice of the Gener
al is a sort of VioariOus proceeding that they