Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-03-28
Sheep 1nterest.
MORE QUESTIONS.

Editor Registcr-In your paper of Feb
ruary 81. under head of "Questions
Again" (where not one is asked, nor one
answered. appears a somewhat lengthy
article from Albert Chapman, secretary.
receiver, auditor, dictator, boss and all
hands of the vermont Sheep Enumera-
tor" In that article. after wandering
from those two-pound fleeces to the time
when he discharged a painful duty
which | suppose refers to his unsuccess-
full attack upon me in connection with
George L. Dimmock for violation of rules
laid down in his modern ''Koran-"Geo.
L. Dimmock was Illegally expelled.
Through the columns of your paper Mr..
tinent and to the point, questions which
affect every resident of Addison county
financially; for when wool and sheep
brought a good price the day laborer
found employment, the farmer had cash
to pay merchants. printers and even the
minister and doctor. Mr.. Dimmock asked
these questions because he and others
saw a change, saw the trade which Ver-
mont once had drifting away, found no
animals such as were called for. Mr..
Editor, who had a better right? Mr..
Dimmock commenced shipping sheep
away eighteen years ago TO Ohio, to
Michigan, to West Virginia, to Texas,
and-let me go a little further-was one
of two who dared take the first risk in
that PARKWAY land, South America. Who
has bought more sheep and paid better
prices: lie Was welcomed to the door
by every man who had sheep to sell all
this after this Pontius PLATE tribunal had
said halt.
Secretary Chapman had not spread Il
large amount of ink before he performed
a painful duty by letting the public
know that George +. Dimmock, who had
dared TO ask questions without consult
ing the "Pope," was an expelled mem
Der; in other words, a hereto. How
painful this must have been.
In the course of the controvelsy be-
I DllbIIoCh dllu DlldH llt ldlltT.
as it seemed, wanted to still further per-
form Il painful duty" and says (see
REGISTER Feb. 81. 1890 "Mr. Demmick,
as he then spelled his name" Mind, he
says AS she then spelled his name,'-an
undetermined way of indirectly saying
that Dimmock had changed his name.
Mr.. Dimmock, knowing that such an
%insinuation would he misunderstood
abroad, called upon his immediate neigh
bors, who had known him for seventeen
years as Dimmock, not "Demmic%." as
Chapman says she then spelled his
name to testify to the truth. They all
responded; amongst them my name APP
pears (see REGIsRER March !, 1890. |
testified there that | had known Dim
mock since 1873; that his name was Dim
mock then and so called now. For this
| am called to account to Chapman (see
REGISTER March u, 1890.
Now | want to ask Mr.. Chapman a few
questions: Did | testify how | spelled
Mr.. Dimmock's name in 1880? Did
spell it "Demmick"? Did | state that 81
never knew him to spell it any other
way" | can tr%uthfully say | never did.
Mr.. Chapman says he attached no i'm
portance to the different ways of spelling
only as the report of the trial spelled his
name as 'Dimmick.' "Another change
in spelling by Chapman.
Now, Mr.. Chapman, you say you at
tached ''no Importance to the different
ways of spelling" his name. Now just
whisper in the ear of some one who wont
tell why you mentioned it at all then:
One question more; Now, tell us what
proof you have that at the time of trial
he spelled his name Demmick?
fear, Mr.. Chapman, your imagina,
ton is prone TO wander away with YOU
memory; people want facts, not fancies
One word in regard to your Register