Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21

might have made money enough to have
bought as large or even larger if | had
wanted such an one.
do not much wonder that Mr.. Dim
mock should dare to touch upon the
subject of his expulsion so much as
wonder at his lack of wisdom in putting
forth such an explanation or defence as
he has. 1t is true, as he admits, that he
inserted registered labels in the ears of
sheep that he knew were not recorded,
and then undertook to escape the penal
ty for so doing by claiming he was not a
member.
He undertakes to make it appear that
we had no rules or clause i'm our con-
stitution enabling us to expel him, and
has "A great deal to say about my break
ing the rules of the association in expelling
him. lie gives me altogether too much
credit for my influence and power to
make laws and rules for the association
and for my power to execute them. In
his case the constitution and rules put
forth in the circular issued early in 1880
had this article in the constitution,
ANY parties who may feel agrieved
at the decisions of the committee on ped
igrees shall have the right to appeal to
the executive board within sixty days
and their decision shall be final. Rule
in the circular of 1880 had this clause,
members who shall be detected in any
practices in connection with registering
sheep, labelling them or selling them
whereby the committee on pedigrees or
Others may be deceived or defrauded
shall be expelled" And these were
what he was tried and convicted by.
The trial before the executive board
on the appeal was Jan. 4, 1881. The
evidence at that trial showed that Mr..
Demmick, as he then spelled his name,
bought lot of old breeding ewes, too
old to be of any value as breeders or to
take West, in the summer of 1880 of
James Peck, that these ewes were bought
of Mr.. Walker by Mr.. Peck and had
his labels i'll their ears, and these labels
turned up in the ears of some young
ewes at st. Clairsville, Ohio, that Mr..
Close bought them in August, 1880, of
Messrs. Taylor and Demmcb and this
firm procured an order of transfer from
Mr.. Walker and afterwards procured
certificate of thirty registered sheep
among which were the numbers of the
labels in the ears of the Walker ewes
sold by Mr.. Peck to Taylor and Dem
mick. 1t was also proved that Mr..
Demmick knew he was member of the
association, as he had made transfers in
September previous, asking at the time
if Mr.. Taylor had not paid two dollars
as membership fee for him.
Governor Stewards plea at the time in
endeavoring to show the appeal was
taken without warrant of the constr
tuition must have been made under the
impression that it was taken by the
committee on pedigrees, for in his re-
marks he said. "As it now stands the
committee had no right to appeal"
The fact was the committee did not take
the appeal, but other members did take
it under the clause of the constitution
quoted above. Governor Stewart stat
ed at the time that he was employed by
Taylor not by "me" as stated by Mr.
Dimmo,k in his last communications
The reason given by Mr.. Dimmock IN
that communication for my vindictive-
ness is prosecuting him is as far from
the truth as the rest of his statements
except when he admits he wrongfully
used the Walker labels. | never knew,
before his statement about the matter
published the 9TH of this month, that
he had anything to do with the sale of
the Jones ewes. | have no dates or
memorandum by me to prove when the
sale was made, but if my recollection
serves me right it was after Mr.. Dem
mick was expelled, and until Mr.. Dim
mock's article | never knew that he
shared with Mr.. Taylor the large COM
missions said to have been paid on that
sale.
As heard it, the "lOOking arouud,"
was mainly between the stations at
West Salisbury and West Cornwall, for
fear some one might possibly get out
from Middebury and buy the ewes
away from them before they got there,
as the victims were assured there was
great danger in that direction.
For my statements of what was proved
at the trial am indebted to some I'M
known friend who sent me copy of
the Mddlebury REGISTER of Jan. I,
1881, that contained report of the trial
by Mr.. Barton for that paper, published
at that time by Mr.. r. NJ. Bailey. The pros
ecution of that trial was most painful
official duty that | could not shrink from
and which would have been but too
glad to have never been compelled to
allude to again and should now only to
defend the association haye spent so