The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-04-15
FLOORED AGAIN!
The sitter In Mourning.
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We have sadnews, Our special pets,
the little band of Smith ringsters in
Brattleboro, (IIooker, Martin n Full
lcr,) have come to grief again, and the
SITTER mourns, though not as one re-
fusing to be comforted. We learn by
letter from friend, who happened
! to be in Brattleboro during the special
town meeting last Saturday afternoon,
that lively time was experienced.
Hooker undertook to do indirectly what
he tried to do directly at the former
meeting, and what he supposed he had
done until he stumbled headlong over Il
statute law and badly barked his shins.
Levi Fuller came to the front in his
support of course, and 80" Martin,
forgetting his mishap at the regular
town meeting, prauced out in his favor
lite spread-caglc style with his little la
die full of nauseating tafia for the old
soldiers, as usual, and got sat down on
good deal heavier than before. The
old soldiers joining in the sport with
hearty good will. Finally, much to the
surprise of everybody, Dea. Estey, who
usually shows shrew5 common sense,
came to the rescue, but all in vain, for
he too went to the wall with the rest, in
the end.
At the opening of the meeting Col.
lIaskins introduced Il resolution direct
ing the selcctmem to erect Soldiers
Monument and appropriating not OK
ceeding $4,000 therefor, and appointing
an advisory committee often prominent
citizens, one half of them soldiers, to
consult and advise with the selectmen
about the design and locating of the
monument, and to arrange for an APP
propriatc dedication of it when COM
pletcd, as follows: Friedrich Holbrook,
Hoyt III. Wheeler, Joseph Draper, Jul
Illus j. Estey, Ed. c. Crosby, Ed. II.
Putnam, Geo. f. Gale, Elijah Wales,
Geo. L. Sellick and Danl. b. Stedman.
Col. Haskins, in Introducing the reso-
luton, said that it was not, and ought
not to be, plan forbuildinga Soldiers
Monument by soldiersin honor of them
selves and comrades, but it was to be,
as it ought to be, Brattleboro's tribute
of honor to her soldiers, built by her
self. Hooker at once moveda substitute,
which was afterwards modified on mo-
ton of Dea. Estey, that the selectmen
should submit any design they might
prefer to Post Sedgewick of the Grand
Army for approval, thus practically
keeping the control in the hands of
Hooker's committee, as he had original
ly planned it, or, as he himself express
ed it, eff the Grand Army approves the
design and say go ahead, then we have
a monument, and if they say no, then
we have no monument" A lively de-
bate of two hours followed, in which
the advocates of IIoOker's substitute a.
bove named were painfully overmatch-
ed by Haskins, Tyler, Harris & Stod-
dard, who supported the proposition in
PRODUCED by Col. Haskins. When it
came 70 a vote the bottom dropped out
in double quick time. The Hooker
Estey substitute was rejected by vote
of more Man ten to one, at least two
thirds of the Grand Army boys, whose
prejudices and passions had been warm
ly appealed to by Hooker and Martin,
voting with the majority. Tatfa didn't
work. So mote it be, only more so,
with every unworthy scheme of petit
foggers, demagogues and bosses from
this time forth. Thus saith the SITTER.
amen!