The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-09-02

good sized cucumber they all wish they
hadn't undertaken the job. Repent
then, oh We sinners, and do work meet
for repentance, and possibly you may
finally be forgiven.
"Col Fuller has for years held Gov.
Smiths free ass."-Reformer.
Then, while you condemn the deed,
why do you approve and support the
doer? This is a conumdrum.
There is evidently lively tussle 60
ing on between the Central Vermont
and the New London Northern rail-
roads to see which shall furnish the
money to rebuild the broken down
bridge; but this ought not to be per-
mitted to delay the resumption of traffic
on the narrow gauge, for the Valley
road has kindly offered the use of their
bridge, by means of third rail, and
all trains might easily, by spending less
than a thousand dollars, be running
regularly TO the Brattleboro depot in
As hours. If a longer delay ensues, it
will be because of pure obstinacy and
cussedness on the part of the manage
ment.
The Central Vermont management
are very angry because an investiga-
ton has been begun into the cause of
the bridge accident. They practically
say we don't want any meddling from
outsiders, and if you don't stop it, and
also stop your opposition to Gov.
Smiths ambition and bossism, we will
lay back and stop all traffic on your
road. If we had proper railroad
commission these things would be
Strengthened out in short order. and
Gov. Smith and his followers would
learn that the state of Vermont is big
ger than they; but without such COM
mission they snap their fingers in the
faces of the people and coolly ask
"what they are going to do about it."
The people are going to vote these az
rogant bosses down-that's what they
are going to do about it.
According to current report the Cen
trail Vermont folks are giving as a rea-
son for trying to throw up the balance
of their lease and attempting to get off
from rebuilding the bridge they have
broken down, as the evidence shows.
by overlooking and want of care. that
the ''peoplc of Windham county are
down on Gov. Smith, Here we have
it, just as the SITTER has been saving,
that Gov. Smith uses all his railroads
for his own personal and political ben
eft, and we are told now in plain
words that because the people of Wind
ham county won't back up Smith in
his political bossism and in his attempt
to get into Senator Edmunds' seat in
the United States Senate, he will throw
up his business contract to ruin the
railroad, and so do us all the injury in
his power. And we tell Gov. Smith
that this won't work. The people of
this county are not slaves, and they
won't submit to be bullicd in this way.
His threats will only react against him
self.
(tn1 E,,a,, Il liz, saI, in,
1873" of which Levi Fuller spoke in
his telephone confab with Col. Hooker,
and which he was so fearful the SITTER
would catch on to? ''Gen." Lynde be-
ing dead, it is inorder for either of his
three subordinate "colonels" to rise
and explain. Don't all speak at once,
gentlemen. 1t would be a pretty dirty
kind of a "job' that would injure Levi
any; but Coils. Franklin Il Hooker
ought TO get out from under the load if
they can. Speak up gentlemen, the
SITTER is listening. As Grover Cleve-
land remarked on a trying occasion:
aTell the TRUTH
Have nothing to do with democrats
of the Smith-Atkins kind. They arc
worse if anything than regular Smith,
republicans, though both follow the
fortunes of their leader for the sake of
"revenue only" like the tariff plank in
a democratic platform. Give all such
trading, truck-and-dicker, political riff
r,ff a xv;do north Their mission il Ia