The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-08-12

f bred dollars. Mr.. johnson accepted
the proposal, supposing that he wa
l not to plead to any offences for liquo
: selling, but his counsel was obliged t
plead to fifty offences in order to get
settlement. PAS
The vindictiveness of the prosecu
ton may be seen from the foregoing
Mr.. johnson would have stood tl'ia
rather than to have had this verde
entered had he understood the circum
stances. The extraordinary mean'
employed by the States Attorney, tc
embarrass Mr.. johnson and the patrons
of the hotel may be appreciated, when
it is known that deputy sheriffs were
stationed at Wells River, White River
junction and other points to subpoena
travelling men who were expected to
arrive from other States en- route to
Bradford, and that boarders and guests
of the hotel were put to the inconven-
fence and humiliation of going to Chel-
sea to testify in such case.
At the Republican County Conven-
ton of 1890, the editor of the OPINION,
at the urgent solicitation of the Peck
etts, father and son, placed the latter
in nomination for States Attorney,
urging it on the ground that he was a
true Republican, Notwithstanding the
fact that his father was prohibition
ist and his brother an uncompromising
democrat, and that he deserved great
credit for his political probity. We
were given to understand that he would
not carry out or be influenced in the
least by Pickett Sr.'s ultra prohibition
ideas. With these assurances made
known to certain delegates, j.. B.
Pickett, Jr., was nominated by mar
row margin, after hot contest. How
well he has kept his pledge is easily
imagined, when we consider that he
has mulcted his townsmen to the
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costs and fines. The only evidence he
could obtain against Mr.. A. T.. Clarke
was that certain parties had carried
liquor into his store and mixed it
themselves, with soda water purchased
from him, not particle of evidence
could be adduced to show that Mr..
Clarke ever had furnished drop of
liquor to any one illegally, or was
aware of the mixing of it with the
soda water, on the contrary it tended
to show the exact reverse.
A prominent member of the official
board of the Methodist church said to
Mr.. Clarke last Tuesday, 1--WE have ar
rived at the conclusion that mistake
was made in touching you" Mr..
Clarke replied that that did not repay
him for the hundred dollars, or more,
in cash, that he had paid, and all the
trouble and inconvenience caused him
by the proceeding.
The States Atty has manifested his
of favors shown him by
The Republican party by endorsing the
1espicable article in the N. E. Home,
which attacks that party in both state
and nation for its Inconsistency, and
by sending marked copies to leading
and this article, probably the
production of the fertile CD brain of
DR.. Hanson, the sworn enemy of the
republican party, who is chiefly dis
inguished for his ability in keeping
both political parties in Bradford, in a
and with handful of fol
overs to defeat the choice of repre-
sentative, occasionally, leaving the
own without representation in the
State Legislature.
We can find no explanation of this
lct of the States Attorney in denounc-
ng his own party, except that he is
heartily ashamed of his actions towards
lis townsmen, and adopts this method
o attract attention from himself. We
believe he would give almost anything
except money! to have the whole
transaction wiped out. Outsiders may
'e mlsled by newspaper articles, but
he neighbors and townsmen, at least
ninety per cent. of them, have spoken
n condemnation of the raid. Without
discussing the prohibitory laws on our ,
statute book, it is conservative to say :
hat the most Objectionable features :
bout them are that they open the way {
or revengeful persons to vent their {
pite, and for mercenary ones to use l
hem for personal gain, if they see fit. s
THOSE RESOLUTIONS. {
The Home article says we refused to
rint the resolutions adopted after the t
Iethodist prayer meeting. That is q
alse and no one knows it better than {
FIR. Hanson. The notice was not Civ 1
n out in church to the congregation, i
Q that ruOuld NOT do tharo ha;po, Zoo | 4