The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-07-22
Wants Levi to tell.

the gentleman will not scent libel in
our reference to the "gentler SEX"
Wants Levi to tell.
A correspondent says:
"Could Levi tell us by the use of his
equatorial telescope what effect the au-
rora borcalis would have on pocket
full of doughnuts, provided man was
hiding in the woods from the L. S.
Narshall?'
Another one asks eff the Arvid Day
ton Organ was among the one hundred
novelties invented by Levi Fuller?'
Not knowing, we cannot say. Perhaps
somebody else may be able to give the
desired information. Why not ask
Levi himself?
And now our candidate Levi is bragg
ging about his generosity, and getting
all the newspapers to tell how much
money he has given away, even to spec
flying his $50 benefactions. lie boldly
procaims that he has given away more
money than any man i'll Vermont of
his age and size. This may be true
for Levi is freer with his money than
anything else except his words--but
RaassttalR ''t to oh; aadvertisc their benevolent
deeds i'll the newspapers before they get
cold, as he does, and so no certain basis
for comparison is furnished. Some
generous men and women do good
deeds by stealth, as it were, not letting
the left hand know what the right hand
doeth; but our friend Levi is not this
not "born to blush unseen, and waste his
sweetness on the desert air." not he.
He is a sturdy. believer i'll the doctrine
that: "IIe that tooteth not his own
horn, verify the same shall not be
tooted.' And his horn is seldom silent.
Levi cares deal less for money than
he does for notoriety and office; but the
public generally would take more
lively interest if the streams of his
boosted generosity would once in a
while overflow Baptist banks.
The Reformer pleads the baby act
for LOw Martin again, and, while adj
hitting that he is one of Gov. Smiths
toadies, says he ought to be let alone
because he is now aprivate citizen, sc.
&c. Now why don't the Reformer
practice what it breaches? just of late,
since the SITTER took it in hand, it has
been little more decent; but how long
is it since its columns were full of filings,
insinuations and vile charges against Il
number of the most respectable and re-
spected "private citizens" of Brattlcbo-
TO, whom it omits no occasion to vilify
and abuse? physician, heal thyself'
before prescribing for others. As we
have before said, there is scarcely q
prominent republican i'll Nindham
county, except its little pets Of the
Smith ring and the Free Pass Brigade,
whom the Reformer has rot slurred
and abused at one time or another with
out stint, and usually the more rcspec-
table the man the more violent the o.
buse.
Now the SITTER "goes for the little
caucus-packing, self-seeking, evcr-last-
ing bcggers for oflice-the men who
have money that other peoples brains
made for them, and who consequently
want the whole earth, though they
havnt the capacity to till small gar
den patch, and would never get even
that if somebody else didn't give it to
them. The SITTER is down on all
shams and humbugs and counterfeits of
every name and nature, as some of them
are finding out about these dogs.
While in one sense Low Martin may
be "private citizen," he is the recog-
nized leader of the Smith gang in these
parts, and is constantly doing his little
best to aid and abet all the small min
compoops who are trying to buy and
wrigglc themselves into office. Besides
he is trying with all his might, night
and day, to squelch the SITTER. Now
the SITTER means to be pretty good, as
the world goes, but it hasn't yet reach
ed the sublime willingness to turn the
left cheek when smitten on the right.
In fact, it has an uncomfortable impulse
to hit back when SO smitten, and Low
occasionally gets the benefit of it. But
the SITTER don't slur and abuse respec-
table private citizens who mind their
business, as the Reformer constant
" does, through mere personal spite.
We hope "our respected cotemporary, >
as the polite phrase now is, will see the
error of its ways and bring forth fruits
meet for repentance. Selah!