The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-08-19

there is no one left to tell the story"
Now there arc lots of people who
would like to know just what that "Col.
Franklin job" was in 1878, and neither
Col. Hooker nor Col. Franklin can af-
ford to keep silence about it, either.
There was evidently something "rotten
in Denmark" in 1878, and no honorable
man can afford to have his name mixed
up with it. "Tcll the truth"
INQUIRER.
VIII candidate Fuller answer?
NJ. EdHOr.-We are getting so
much new light about some of our can
didatcs for office that our appetites are
whetted up for more. Rumors are a.
float that ought to be explained more
fully, because when we vote for man
we want to know just what sort of man
he is. Can anybody tell us the facts
about one or two transactions that are
a good deal talked about just now:
/. What is the true inwardness of
this story that is passing from mouth to
mouth about an exciting trial for dclib-
crate lying before the Baptist church
at Brattlcboro few years ago, and
what was the outcome of that trial?
2. What are the real facts about a
falsiiicd catalogue that was sworn to
and put in evidence in the famous Es-
tcy-Burdette case, about which so much
has been said, which afterwards had to
be hastily Withdrawn and hushed up
under rather trying circumstances? Can
you give us light Oh these points, Mr..
Sitter? QUERY.
We can't, but our columns are open
to anybody who can. Perhaps candi-
date Fuller, who is member of the
Brattleboro Baptist church and who
claims, in his biography, to have taken
prominent part in the great lawsuit
i'll question, can answer these questions.
More "giving away!'
Mr.. SITTER There seems to be no end
to the bcnevolencc of Levi Fuller and
his firm, and this time it is the dead
body of one of their employees that
has been given away. When Frank
Slytield died the other day, after SER
wing them for thirteen years, it was
found that he hadn't money enough
to bury him, and so the firm promptly
called Oh the town to put him away at
the public expense, which was done.
AS Levi is in the habit of boasting of
his gifts in the newspapers, this one
ought to be told of also.
QUILP.
We received communication last
week from Dandy, in reference to the
recent democratic caucus in that town,
which was unavoidably crowded out.
AS mentioned, editorially last week, it
was a complete vindication of ex-post-
master Adams. The writer of this
communication closes thus:
"No doubt this will prove to post
master Bond and his bosom friend
Charles Nolan that they are badly left
and if they wish the support of Dandy,
they must not be controlled by the Re-
publican Boss. We do not want any
of his assistance, neither will we accept
it from himself or through any of his
democratic slaves. We want no more
parlor or secret caucuses. Hereafter
all democrats of Dandy want voice
and must have it. Right will always
rule in the end THE first shall be last
and the last shall be first So be it.
Amen"
Appreciative.
Mr.. EdHor:-Allow me, as one of
your readers, to most heartily endorse
your sentiments regarding Levi Fuller,
the candidate for Lieut.. Gubernatorial
honors. After the SITTER has finished
with him, he will, think, be in that
condition popularity supposed to be a
leading characters tic of anything that
has gone through the "mills of the
Gods" which "grind slowly but they
grind exceeding small" His patent
acts should be ventilated from one end
of the state to the other, and the SITTER
seems to be the paper particularly well
booked up so to do.
Those jealous guardians of the honor
of the state, the Waterman, Messenger,
Telegram and the smaller members of
the virtuous clique opposed to the re-
election of Senator Edmunds, have
villainous notions of fairness and hon
esty. They do not scruplc to misrepre-
sent the senator's opinions, to misstate
his public acts, and lie, willfully and
maliciously, about his private and pro-
fessional affairs. The Waterman last
week could find room for column of
such stuff, but could not make a place
for the senator's letter respecting his
professional relations with the railways.
Thes scribes have placed public man
on trial before his constituents ard
usurped the part of prosecutor, judge
and jury. They constitute sort of
star-chamber where cut-throats sit in
Judgment yermonter.
A grocery merchant and dry goods
merchant met on the street the other
day land aft9r talking about various