The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-07-04
/" SHAKER"

EdatOf SDter. IL is a long Wnlle
since l wrote anything for the SITTER,
but all the same I've kept my eyes
open weatherward to the doings of
the old free riders and free hooters,
as they will find out one of these
days when the proper time comes to
"set 'em up" But I can't refrain
now from asking you to "shake !"
over the well deserved but unmerciful
castigation you have just given that
old gang of suckers at the public crib,
who have imposed on the administra-
ton and disgraced the Republican
party by foisting upon your post
office man who is shown by the
sworn affidavits of his neighbors to be
utterly unfit for any place of public
trust. 1t was an occasion that called
for plain speaking and they got it.
You certainly didn't mince your
words. Of course it was to be ex-
pected that Hooker and Ompompo-
nosuc Fuller and their satillites would
he mixed up in every dirty job Of this
kind-they can't help it any more
than hog can stop wallowing in the
gutter-but l was surprised, and SO
were a good many other people, to
learn that the cold -blooded and crafty
Waterman had openly cast in his lot
with this old and smirched gang of
spoilsmen. He has generally had the
credit of being too shrewd and eau
tious to be caught in such disreputa-
BILE company. But love of money
will lead lots of sanctimonious men to
whitewash the devil himself when he
has the shekels to pay well for the
job. When Hooker few years ago
replied to the taunting charge of a
neighbor that he was Tammany
Democrat when he lived in New York,
by saying with brutal frankness {:
Certainly; you don't suppose I'm
such d-d fool as to be either a
Republican in New York city or a
Democrat in Vermont, do yous" He
sounded the heighth and depth Of the
political principles and morality that
belong to such unmitigated Office
seekers and beggers as he and the
slippery Fuller and their whole crowd.
They are Republicans "for revenue
only" and will be Democrats or any
thing else whenever they can make
more out Of it. And these are the
men who are thrusting themselves
forward as tie spokesmen and office
brokers of the Republican party,
Heaven save the mark If this thing
continues, and these men are listened
too, it takes no prophet to foresee
that there will soon be no Republican
party to boss, even here in iron-clad
old Vermont. The people are long
suffering and slow to wrath, but the
time will come, and soon too, when
they will rebel, and then let these po-
litical hucksters and mountebanks be-
ware. They are laying up wrath
against the day of wrath, and don't
you forgetit! The people are patient
but not as stupid as these self-con-
ceited nincompoops seem to believe.
Now this same plundering gang that
put up the job on your post-office are
trying it on elsewhere, and endeavor-
ing TO forestal and thwart the wishes
Of the people by forcing their unfit
followers and henchmen into post
offices. Bnt | am told that our Con-
gressmen and those who have the final
say about these things have at last
dropped on to this cunning little game
of our political thimble-riggers, and
of course that ends it. But, Mr.. SIF-
TER, l didn't start out to write let
ter, but only to congratulate you on
your sturdy and resolute stand against
political chicanery and corruption.
Persevere in well doing and you may
depend upon it the people will back
you. PEEPING Tom.