Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-21
Retreatlng Under Fire.


about three columns length in order
to set fire to it and to enjoy a dance
all by itself in the display. 1t re-
wives a current newspaper report of
some six years ago that Mr.. Carroll
S. Page fed to Canada during the
war to avoid the draft. Mind, this
old story had not been revived in
this campaign, and probably, fearing
that it would not be, the Monitor re-
wives it in order to disprove it under
the pretense that it is ''a campaign
SANDER" This is the cheapest sort
of campaign literature, and we doubt
whether it will have the effect desired,
to create sympathy for the man who
has not been assailed.-St. AtbGnS
Messenger
The Messenger is one of the out
and out supporters of Col. Wood
bury. The editor of the Messenger
was for some years a resident of Bur-
lington he is also G.. A. r. man
and loves a man almost to death
when he loves him at all. The Mes
senger is always counted as the or
gan of the Central Vt. r. r. In
this contest it is allied with what
some call a 'Ecustom house ring
How much there is to the latter theO-
ry we do not know it is pretty evil
dent that the custom house officers,
from Mr.. Benedict all the way down
with exceptions so few as not to break
the rule are supporters of Col. Wood
bury.
But we began this article to show
how grandly and heroically Col. Gibbs
(we suppose everybody is colonel
now days) meets the matter to
which he refers in his article quoted
above. In assuming that the MoNI-
TOR revives the story, the editor as
sumes what he knows to be false.
The false and dirty scandal had been
most industriously circulated for sew
eral days, and the Messenger had
published the Brandon Union article
and also in the same weekly issue
had the following:
These old veterans are somewhat
notional. Whenever they aspire to
political honors they desire to 60
upon a ticket with some one who, if
he did not enter the war service, dis
tinguished himself in patriotic duty
| at home.
Now Bro. Gibbs, what did you
mean by the above? We answer
Simply to cast a reproach on the
patriotism of G. S. Page. Do not
try to dodge, now. You did not have
the courage to boldly and explicitly
state that Mr.. Page had been unpat-
riotic in the time of the war, but
you were willing TO print another
mans innuendo, and to hint at enough
in your own paper to make people
believe that the Brandon Union was
right. We fail to see great differ
ence between doing ones own lying OF
using the false assertions of others.
Of the two, the first mentined is most
manly.
The Richtord Gazette in comment
Oh our article published last week
has the following:
For several weeks those newspa-
pers which are championing the
cause of Mr.. Urban A. Woodbury.
have been slyly insinuating that Car
roll S. Pages record during the war
was open to serious criticism, and a
story to the effect that he retired to
Canada to escape the draft is being
circulated for the purpose of injur-
ing him politically. This is a six
year-old political canard' and it is
but fair to Mr.. Page to say that the
Gazette investigated the matter in
1884 and found that the story had
no reliable foundation. This inves-
tigation was made because the Ga.
zette gave currency to the report at
the time, and upon representation
being made that the report was un-
true The Gazette investigated the
matter and found the facts substan-
TALLY as stated in the article from the
Barton Monitor published in another
column. The facts therein set forth
completely refute the insinuations
and statements against Mr.. Pages
patriotism and should forever set the
lie at rest. If Mr.. Woodbury.
friends have no better material thar
this to use against Mr.. Page they are
in bad way for argument agains
that gentleman's popularity as
candidate for the governorship. Ii
they have anything to meet the facts
set out in the Barton Monitors arti
Gle, let them trot it out, and if they
have not let them hereafter hole