Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-05-16
THE BRANDON UNION AND ITS AC-
CUSERS,
The Editor of tho Union Declines to Sub
nit to Groundless ISLANDERS.

The Editor of tho Union Declines to Sub |
NIT to Groundless ISLANDERS.
From the Brandon Union.1
We have been accused of libellng and |
Mr.. c. S. Paige by his support
ers and have waited quite patiently for
them to put their finger upon single pas
sage published in the Union to sustain them
in their very unreasonable attack upon us.
AS not many Of the newspapers supporting
his candidacy come to this office, we could
not obtain full knowledge of their meth
DDS i'll sustaining his cause, but the Poult
ncy journal has come squarely to the point
aud in an editorial charges us with publish
ing of Mr.. G. S. Paige that she went to
Canada during the war to avoid the draft. "
We have the charity to believe that the
editor of the Poultnoy Journal is misled by
the slanderous utterances being circulated
over the State against us, and not from
anything he has ever seen i'll the Brandon
Union, for this paper has never made any
such statement, either directly or indirect
ly. 1t is Il serious charge that the editor of
the journal makes against us, and he ought
to retract it. Instead of believing that he
intends TO wifuly and maliciously
lie about us, we feel that he
is laboring under mistake, which
would be natural enough if he redsh
those papers that at present ,paus
Mr.. Pages canvass. The Union never ac-
Lu9eu 4Hi, l "se W to"pi.n'e' uleioy "i'y'
Canada TO escape the draft or anything
like it, as charged by those papers. Neither
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Hon. Charles =. Marsh to the MONTPELIER
"a'chmah'l
Late last fall, and think in November,
while | was spending few days in Boston,
| | saw Mr.. Page mt the Quincy House, where
| was staying. our meeting was purely acct
dental. In some conversation | was having
with him mentioned the fact Of having
seen his name fayorably mentioned as a
candidate Tor governor at the next election,
and expressed my qualification. In re
sponse to my inquiries, he gave me the fav-
! orable position, as he understood it, CT
quite a number OF prominent gentlemen of
the State who had assured him of their sup
port He said he did not know rs he should
have the supper; OF some gentlemen of in
iuence connected with the railroad interests
of the State, for the reason that the APP
pontmont of q chairman for the last repub-
| lican State convention gave offence, as lie
was told, TO certain persons connected with
one of the leading railroads of the state;
and he explained TO me the circumstances
attending the appointment of the chairman
in question. ! told Mr.. Page that did not
believe any of the gentlemen connected
with any railroad interest would refuse him
tneir support lor that reason When the rea
reasons loi Sucn aPPoluInlen. were uuuel
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