News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-24
A Veritable Boomerang.
From the Montpelier Waterman.

From the Montpelier Waterman.
MARK, now, how plain tale shall put
you down "
The organs of the Burlington com
bine have been teeming with dark in
timations of disclosures to be made
affecting the public and private record
of Hon. Carroll S. Page, prominent
candidate for the gOvernOrship-dis-
closures which, in the CHASTITY phrase
of partisans of the combine, would
disembOwel Lieut.-Gov. WOodbury's
rival for the honors of the Republican
nominating convention. What these
signs of coming revelation portend
has been slyly and busily propagated,
by letter and by word Of mouth, bv
the political and personal enemies of
Mr.. Page or by their agents. The
State has been insidiously flooded
with these charges, which, if false, are
libelOus and infamous, and should re-
act upon their authors. Many can
did people have undoubtedly been
imposed upon and persuaded that
the charges are true, but their Origi-
majors and disseminatOrs have either
known that the stories are the i'll
begOtten progeny of malice and cow
ardice, or they have had abundant
opportunity to become informed, had
they desired light.
Briefly stated, the accusation that
has been so industriOusly circulated
and covert references to which have
cropped out in the editorials and
anonymous publications of the unto
of papers devoted to Lieutenant-GOv-
ernor WOodbury's candidacy, sets
forth that during the period of the
great civil war, when the government
was calling for defenders, and drafts
were ordered to 5ispIsy the deficiency
in enlistments, Mr.. Page fed to Can
ada, and remained there two years,
to escape military service. Weregret
to say that men whose honorable in
stincts should prompt them to repel
a libel on an antagonist as swiftly
and indignantly as on friend, have
either aided, for selfish reasons, in
giving currency to this story or have
Winked at its circulation. But in the
course of its tour of infamy the SLAM
derous tale was told to a regimentaI
comrade and brother officer Of Colo
mel Woodbury., Judge O. II. Austin
of Barton, whose ideas of honor and
fairness taught him to investigate
before believing and condemning
His inquiry has brought out the bot
tom facts IN the case, which the Bar
ton Monitor has embodied in the
article, GA Campaign Slander and It's
Refutation, reprinted in this issue
of the Waterman. Poetic Justice
has rarely had so apt an illustration
as this triumphant and unsOught
vindicatiOn of Mr.. Page at the hands
OF quartette of Veterans of the late
war-Austin, Ballard, Sawyer and
Blake. We commend the article Of
the Monitor whose editor and pro-
prietor is Captain Blake, and Colonel
SAWYER letter to the careful perusal
and candid Judgment of our readers.
The charge so craftily made and pro-
mulgated must prove 10 be a verita-
bic boomerang to the clique of con
splrators against personal character
and the public welfare.
In this connection the inquiry nat
urally arises, why this murderous
warfare at this time upon a civilian
who is a candidate for the office of
chief eXecutiVe?' Why is Mr.. Page
singled out for invidious distinctions
that were not raised in the case of
Stewart, or Batchelder, or W. p. Dill