The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-06-17

Although the State convention has
met and finished its work, by far the
most serious part of the campaign still
remains to be attended to. The Senate
rial question, which greatly outweighs
all others in real Importance, is now di-
rcctlv in order. and ought to receive
earnest attention from every republican
voter. A carefully concocted scheme to
defeat Senator Edmunds and put Smith
in his place, in which disgruntled re-
publicans of the Smith ring stripe and
democrats of the Hiram Atkins school
were to cooperate, was early mapped
out by the wiley ring boss-the work to
be done in secret and, if possible, with
out attracting the attention or arousing
the activities of the people, according to
the favorite methods of the great boss,
who never does anything above board
and in the open light of day. But for
tunately for thepublic good, Hiram At
kins was one of the conspirators, and
his mouth is a good deal bigger than his
discretion, so the whole plot was pre-
maturely proclaimed by him from the
house tops, so to speak, and the people
were thus forewarned in season to make
their views respected, if they so elect
Not one republican voter i'll twenty
nc Snnofnr EIpn,,,lr TO IN Il nc ootn1
They have too much horse sense and too
much state pride to be willing to have
Vermont step down from the head to
the foot of the class in the United
States Senate, where our little state has
so long held the post Of honor; and the
only danger is in the superior activity
and manipulating skill of the small mi
nority who follow the lead, sing the
praises and carry in their pockets the
passes of Gov. Smith. They are lit
tie band of mercenary brothers, but
long practice has made them wonder
fully alert and skillful i'll packing eau
cuses and leading the people blindfold
to do just what they do not want to do
or to stand idly by while the schcmcrs
"sct 'em up" for the big boss.
Nor is the senatorial question-impor-
tant as it is-the only one in which the
people, and especially farmers and me-
chanics and all laboring men generally.
are deeply interested at this time. The
railroads of Vermont, chartered fol
the public good, and that ought to be q
blessing to every citizen of the State
have been so grossly mismanaged and
perverted that they have become op.
pressors, cxtortioners and dictators
and all attempts to bring them under
the control of law and subject to The
State that created them, have been stub
bornly, insolcntly and successfully resis
ted up to this date. AT length publ,
attention has be come so thoroughly
aroused to these enormities as to bring
the remedy within easy reach, if til,
people will only faithfully discharge
their political duties.
! TO defeat the senatorial conspiracy
lay out cold the Smith ring in all il
rottenness and secure all needed rail
road legislation, it is only necessary tina
: proper men, who know what the PEG
: pie want, and who cannot be caioled no
bought, should be sent to the legisla
| ture. Only this kind of men should b.
sent to Montpelier this fall, either a
senators or representatives Theme
! is almost on the run. "Give 'em a it'll
. more grape boys" and the victory i
) won. The first thing to be attended Il
: are the caucuses in the several towns t.
elect delegates to county convention
where candidates for senators will b.
selected. Let no man be sent as a del
egate TO represent the people in thes
conventions who is not known to b.
heartily in sympathy with the purpose
above mentioned, and let no hill town
through indifference be either unrep