The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26
That Peru Rally-Letter from Mr..
HapgOOd,

pieaseu tnat your correspondent or your
sell saw fit to cast reflections upon me
personally, since it gives me an opportu.
nifty, through the columns of your OWL
paper, to ventilate the affair.
took hold and helped get up as good
and rousing rally as l could for the
reason that it devolved upon me as a
member of the county committee to at
J, tend to the affair and because l never in.
tend to do anything by the halves. If
1t VIII do you or your correspondent any
good to ilnpugn selfish or cowardly mo-
tive upon my part you are welcome to it,
Some persons are so constituted them
selves that they cannot see how it is pos
sible for another to act from pure and
disinterested motives.
There was one other motive had, Mr..
SITTER, my heart was in it. can count
the fingers upon my hands. Therefore it
is plain to me that Fuller and Stranahan
this September mean Harrison and Reid
in November. Every vote against Full
Ter now means ten for Grover Cleveland
then. You were pleased to reflect upon
the manner in which l decorated my
house. l intended to do that, the same
as everything else, by the wholes. No
one of us realize the significance to the
voters abroad of the majority which Ver-
mont gives in September of a presiden-
tial election to her governor. She leads
and in large sense is the guiding star.
You know very well how the Democrats
all over the land would exult over small
majority tor Fuller. Read what the N.
Y. World, the Democratic Bible, says
about it already. Yet in order to crafty
personal spite, in order, if possible, to
hurt his feelings, you are willing to sac
| rifice the highest interest of the nation.
No paper in the state is working more di.
rectly for Grover Cleveland than you are.
How all the Democrats around here
chuckle and "laugh in their sleeves" at
what you say.
Before the convention | was not
working Fuller man. But when attend
ed that convention and witnessed the very
unusually large majority by which he re-
ceived his nomination, there was only one
course for me, as Republican, to take.
The time for me to have opposed Fuller
was before the convention. The time for
you to have opposed Mr.. Fuller was be-
fore the corEention. You did oppose him
there, you and all the opposition fought
him as hard as you knew how, you
brought out all of your strength, you at
tended that convention and done your
best there against him, knowing well that
then and there was the true battle ground.
You were defeated by an overwhelming
majority. What then was the true, man.
ly, course? l leave it for you to answer.
To show the annimus of your cores
pondent, who carefully kept in the shade,
Che was no Peruvian as he represents)
no one estimated the number in atten-
dance at less than double the number
stated, some called it thousand. | had
no intimation whatever that Dillingham;
and Markham were not to be present until
the afternoon of the rally.
M. j. HAPGoOD.
Peru, VT, Aug. %, 1892.
The above is specimen of Fuller
ism, pure and simple. Both before
and since the convention every paid
organ and hireling in the state have
shown themselves insulting bullies.
At the same time they have been
dreadful touchy when anything has
been said about them or their weak
ling candidate. Mr.. Hapgood is
dreadfully put out because the SIF-
TER's special correspondent "impugn-
ed" his motive, as he says, but starts
out with direct insult by attempting
to cast doubt upon the genuineness
of our correspondence, and then
charges the SITTER with opposing
Fuller for personal spite, etc., all of
which is straight lie. The SITTER
has opposed Levi Fuller, as its read
ers for the past six years well know,
because of his small mental caliber
and his unfitness and unworthiness.
We are perfectly willing that all the
world should believe that Mr.. Hap
good is patriot and nothing else ;
that he wouldn't even be candidate
for county senator if he. thought it
would be against the wishes of Col.
Colburn, but when he charges us with
things that we are not guilty of he
may expect, at least, mild protest.
Now as TO that Democratic laugh,
just one word: this has been a good
year, in Vermont, for men Of that
party to laugh. Ever since the Bur-
lington convention every Democrats
face has been wreathed in smiles,
and, hercabouts, since the Peru rally
it has deepened into broad grin.
Why! Hecause it was evident II
every OILS with head as big as q hen S
that Lew Fuller couldn't poll the full
Republican vote. That's why DEM
ocrats lauch. The SITTER is not to
blame for it. Those who forced his
nomination and who are now holding
up their hands in holy horror if any
one intimates that he will not vote
for their patron saint-the fellows
: that worked for the money there was
in it, and who are now telling Will
every breath what good Republicans
they are and how they love the deal
old party--a miserable lie-are tic
: ones that are to blame. They put NJ