The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-05-03

IWlfe-pulllnS tnat mas Nrtu"iiy \"h's''
they rise in their might and declare 1t
shall not be- settled the question OF
who shall be Governor of Vermont
two months before the meeting OF a
delegate convention, that in the ordi-
nary course of events is supposed to
settle all such matters. We do not
believe that there is an intelligent
Republican in the state who does not
feel Inundated by the existing polltl-
cal status of the party, a bound VIC
tim writhing beneath the wheels of the
Central Vermont Juggernaut. Not
one, outside of the small body of fix
ers, trimmers and ring tools, who are
only Republicans for revenue, and
who, if the other party were likely to
gain the ascendency in Vermont,
would go over to their ranks body
(they never had any souD and breech-
es.
From its inception to the present
time, against all odds, and money,
and power, the SITTER has boldly and
detiantly fought boss rule and all plot
tiers and schemers and while ac-
knowledging and believing in all the
great and fundamental principles OF
the Republican party, it has boldly
proclaimed that the people and their
rights should not be held subservient
to the uses of truck-and-dicker politi-
clans, whose ends and aims were not
for the benefit of the party but for
their own self agrandisement; bellev-
ing. in other words, that the success
of any party should depend upon its
willingness to take up and deal with
all questions in the interest of the
masses, and without regard to the po-
litical tramps and bummers whose
only ends are their own. And for
the same reasons it is governed to-day
in solemnly protesting against the
Governorship being "fixed" upon W.
P. Dillingham; Or any other man, in
the way it has been done. How has
it been done? By dirty manipula-
tons, "by ways that are dark and
tricks that are vain" Let us turn on
the lights let us see how it will look
Illuminated by stubborn facts. For
several years earnest, able and hon
est Republicans, representing the
best elements of the party in the
state, have keenly felt the calling
woke of the Central Vermont railroad
ring, and have sought deliverance.
These men have also been steadfast
advocates of measures, such as the
abolition of the free pass, a mighty
engine of corruption; a compre-
hensive and just supervision of our
railroads and other growing monopo-
lies and of related ms |.
be in the interest of -rs .n-
tend to building up Il "
our state. So rapid .,...
been the growth of Il
sentiment that the pa
it are in the ascenda #.t. r-.
brains and strength,
dominant in all way u
dirty work, low down manipulations,
and caucus packing. Now when rep
resentative men Of these ideas began
to cast about them for a candidate
for Governor they, naturally as water
seeks it's level, concentrated upon a
pioneer exponent of their views, the
fearless, uncompromising, brainy, B.
d. Harris of Brattleboro, whose light
had never been hid under bushel
| but was known to all men from the
fact that he had upon all proper oc-
casions spoken as pointedly as in his
able and manly letter of declination.
And so the cry came up from all parts
of the state for Harris for Governor.
But with it at once developed an OPP
position, sneaking and cowardly, from
this same soulless ring, the grand Sa-
chem of which hates Harris as he does
all men that he cannot use, because
of his outspoken utterances, and be-
cause he Harris had thrust his fingers
deep into his wounded side, left gap
ing and bleeding as he came out of
the contest with Edmunds. Sneaking
and cowardly? Yes. Look How
was this candidacy of Harris met
Not by an attempt to controvert any
opinions held by him in matters of
state government, they dare not do
this not in the way of assailing his
personal character, for they knew it
was without reproach not by an at
tack upon his ability, for they were
conscious that he stood full head
and shoulders above all the ring pup
pets in the state. Then how did they
proceed? Simply by adopting their
usual tactics of cunning, duplicity
and trickery. 1t was a will known
fact that Harris was not an office
seeker, nor schemer; that for no
consideration would he make scram-
BILE for that Or any other position,
therefore, to run him off the track it
l.