The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-05-13
shall Vermont send Another

who have been sent there, or who have
bought their own way there, to defend
and foster the interests and do the bid
ding of dommeering monopolics and of
the great money kings, like Jay Gould,
instead of striving to promote the well
fare of the masses. These are notori-
Gus facts which no wellinformed man
viii dispute. Money, piled up into
huge fortunes and generally by wick
ed misuse and abuse of the very corpo-
rate powers derived from the govern
ment itself, is forcing itself into the
high places which of right belong to
brains, integrity and craftsmanship.
Every year some new CrTSus appears,
money bags in hand, demanding admis-
sion into the inner political temple only
to detle it and turn ii into symbol of
oppression. II is certificate of res
probability which seems to them to COW
er out of sight the crookedness and dis
honor through which they heaped up
their millions of ill-gottcn dollars, every
one of them probably at the expense of
defrauded rights and ill-paid toll of the
people. To their snobbish conceptions
seat in the Senate is kind of patent
of nobility which condoncs all past
transgressi9ns; and, having no other
title to it, and no other way of getting
it, they go into the market and buy it
with their boarded millions, as they
would anything else for which they
have a longing. The number of such
men who have secured the object of
their ambition is already sufficiently
large to excite alarm in the minds of
those who believe that this republican
government should be administered in
the interests of the whole people, and
not for the benefit of the rich few.
One would naturally think that New
England is the last place in the country,
and Vermont the last State in New
England, from which to seek reinforce
ments for the millionaire and monopo-
list forces in the United States Senate.
And yet this is just what is happening
to-day. Gov. Smith, 'the richest man
in Vermont" worth ''his six to eight
Millions according to the Boosting of
his intimate friends, and the head and
front OF the most gigantic and domi-
neering monopoly that ever existed in
New England, "a monopoly that largely
sways the business and seeks absolutely
to control the politics of the State,--is
eagerly pushing for the place filled by
Mr.. Edmunds, and his subsidized news
papers and rctainers and. his free pass
beneticiaries, including his obsequious
Democratic allies, are moving heaven
and earth, and frantically appealing to
powers beneath the earth, to crafty his
ambition. And from without the State
the great law-defying monopolies of the
country give him active sympathy and,
it is said, more substantial aid; and well
they may, for success in this raid would
remove from their pathway their most
uncompromising and dreaded enemy
and give them a most congenial and
sympathizing friend. in Gov. Smith.
who is one of themselves.
In Mr.. Edmunds, Vermont has q
faithfuland incorruptible public servant
whose untiring industry and preemi.
nent ability have placed him at the head
of the United States Senate. His con.
stituents are justly proud of him and
his achievements. They admire his man.
ly independence and thuthfulness, and
his sturdy fidelity to his convictions of
duty, even when they happen atrarc in
tervals to disagree withhim. And they
are not blind to the fact that, in all the
turmoil now prevailing, he is taking no
part whatever in this senatorial fight
not so much as lifting finger in his
own behalf, but calmly continues to
devote his whole time, energy and
thoughts, as he always has, to the per-
Torrance of the official work his con-
stituents have given him to do. When
his services arc no longer wanted, he
will cheerfully accept his dismissal at
the hands of the people, and give way
to his successor. lie is in the hands of
the people to do with him as they will,
without remonstance, prompting or
suggestion from him. This is his con-
eeption of propriety and duty. Will
the people now dismiss him? We do
not believe them capable of such folly.
To do this at any time in order to put
in his placea political boss, millionaire,
and aristocrat and Il monopolist, who
stands in his own person and surround
ings for all that is antagonistic to the
interests and hopes of the common peo-
pie, would be worse than folly; itwould
be an absolute crime. The Freemen
of Vermont are not for sale.
$4,000.