The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-19

Hardwick Gazette:
The only ostensibly good reason
given for voting for Levi X. Fuller
for governor is that "a vote for Full
Ter is vote for Harrison" and re-
publicans are solemnly warned, with
a covert threat, that they will be
''recreant to their principles" if they
do not do so. OF course this whip
ping in uproar was foreseen and ex-
pected. 1t is the only decent excuse
under heaven for voting for Fuller,
and of course will be vigorously work.
ed. 1t is the last thing on the pro-
gram OF brute force, cowardice and
deceit. Hundreds of far-seeing Ver-
monters protested against the forcing
of Fuller's nomination, but without
avail. The bosses had the overwhelm-
ing strength of numbers, and disre-
garded every plea for wise and ju-
dicious choice. The organs clamored
that the raid be forced through, and
boasted that the remonstrants could
be whipped and bulldozed into line
as in years before. They always had
been, and they wouldn't dare stand
out against anything the ring might
conclude to do presidential year.
This being the case, it was the bos-
ses' opportunity and they did it.
The sneak argument is that "you
must help Harrison by voting for
Fuller" A vote for Fuller is made
the test of party loyalty. No A
thousand times no !! The republican
ring of Vermont has no right to force
disreputable nomination and make
the support of it the test of party
fealty. There are hundreds of hon.
orable republicans in Vermont who
cannot be goaded into bending their
necks to the yoke, Harrison or no
Harrison. The record recently made
by the ring cannot be hidden by the
interposition before it of the presi-
dental ticket. We in Vermont have
a few things to settle right here and
right now, and the settlement will not
be delayed or avoided by the beating
of Harrison tom-toms. The voters
Of Vermont can be led to polluted
brook, but they cannot be made to
drink even by holding their heads un-
der water. The sooner this fact is
legally recorded the better. For
years past the overwhelming and ir-
resistable republican organization in
Vermont has been tending toward the
absolute control of the freemen of the
party by little autocratic ring Of
lalf dozen bosses, until all they have
10 do to carry the state for anything
or anybody is to issue their edict 10
,he SUBJ bosses and the twisters are
applied to the rank and file. If any
Door devil with feebly cropping mind
If his own ventured to hang back a ;
title the ring in his nose was given a
lalf turn and he was made to dress
'anks. Fullerism is the exact and in
result of this intolerable sys-
;em. Any newspaper that has dared
@ question an act of the council has
oeen attacked by the subsidized and
silver collared terriers of the state
press and court martialled as "dem-
,crat." This latter term is yet con-
,idered in some back districts as the
sum and essence of all terrestrial vii
amy, and whoever is thus excommu-
heated by these journalistic keepers
If their brothers consciences is con-
'idered as booked for perdition.
The Gazette has been "accused" of
being a democratic paper because it
old the truth about these things, as
f only democratic paper could do p.
t AS the state election approach
IS the clamor of the bosses and news
paper b flats to "stand by Harrison
Increases. But we are not holding
rational election in Vermont in Sep
ember to vindicate L. K. Fuller.
state election will be held to settle
some of these matters to which we
lave referred, and unless the signs
If the times are very deceitful the
ing will be given lesson that will
asst it for years TO come.
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