Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-04
Sheffield.
TO BE READ OUT OF THE
PARTY.

TO BE READ OUT OF THE
PARTY.
A few days since, while the polit-
ical Sanhedrim, which is assuming
to control the republican party of
this county, were met in solemn con-
clave at the office of the High Priest
at Irasburgh, one of the nominees of
the regular republican ticket hap
pened to drop in on business. He
saw at once that momentous matters
were being considered, and would
have retired from the presence of the
council, had he not been required to
state his position and declare wheth-
Ell or not he would allow his name to
90 on the boilers ticket. Judge Austin
undertook to state his position and
to have it fully known how he stood.
He was asked to 60 before the new
convention by self or proxy and re-
fuse to have his name go on the tick
ct to be formed by the boilers, or
suffer the penalty of being removed
from the regular ticket and the loss
of support by the ''regulars. :" II is
needless to say that he squarely re-
fused to submit to the attempted
bulldozing. But this was not all
that fell out at the time. The Judge
was given to understand that not
only himself, but all others who par
ticipated in the bolt were to be read
out of the republican party and to
suffer ostracism so far as themselves
and their associates were concerned.
This is a terrific announcement
To be read out of the party by this
council of men, in whose hands the
destinies of the party and individuals
are placed by the political junto
Just think of it Hundreds of veter-
an republicans in the county who
did faithful work for party and state
before these men were born, and
who have been the staunchest and
most infential in the party since its
formation to be reDd out! The great
mass of men who believe temperance
a vital issue in politics read out!
Hundreds of Christian men in all the
churches ostracized and sent out of
the party in disgrace Church Off
GERS, deacons and pastors by the
score read out The mass of repub-
icans in several towns and large
majority in other towns read out by
a half dozen lawyers and few
machine politicians All men every
where in the county who cannot en-
dorse the full, straight, regular re-
publican county ticket to be read
out. The four hundred men from
all sections of the county who met at
Irasburgh Wednesday, in the inter-
ests of no man OF clique of men, to
consult for the public good, to be
read out of the party! The leading
men in temperance, education and
morals all must go! The Woman's
Temperance Union, except such
small part as is under the control of
one man, read out, for its interest in
the boilers movement, and all to be
relegated to darkness, who utter a
protest against the character of few
men on a so called republican ticket.
What a calamity Can anything be
done to stay the wrath of those who
have right and power to send this
direful visitation upon us?
Shall it be known who these are
that threaten all this? Let it be
whispered on white lips: L. FL.
Thompson, Enoch G. Rowell, W. F.
Templeton, VIM. r. Rowell, VIM.
II. Human, w. w. Miles, Elijah
Norton, John L. Carr and Alb. Bow
ley.
After this solemn reading out has
been accomplished and we go away
in our loneliness, where the harps
can be hung upon the willows and we
sit in sackcloth and ashes, the most
poignant grief that can pierce our
souls will be knowledge that those
mentioned above have cast us off for
ever