The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-25
A VAIL IRON BRATTLEBORO.
Brattleboro Mar. 22 1892
Mr.. Editor.

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Mr.. Editor:
Believing that your colums are al
ways open to free and fair discussion
OF all public questions l beg leave to
occupy small space, and give my
views upon the Governor question
for | am led to believe from reading
the articles published in the papers
throughout the state, and the many
hard things said about our Levi that
the true situation is not generally un-
derstood. In the first place Brattle-
boro wants the Governor and we think,
and | believe, it is generally conceded
that we are entitled to him. 1t has
been a long time since Brattleboro
has had Governor and then we
brought forward a man whom the
town of Brattleboro and the state
felt proud of, and do to day, and no
man walks the streets of Brattlboro
who is more respected and beloved
than this same old war Governor, and
| believe the regret is nowhere more
keenly felt than here that we cannot
bring forward his equal for the COM
ing campaign, not that we have not
the men but that they are not avail
able. / might mention the names of
the Hon. B. d. Harris, DR.. H. d.
Holton, Col. Kittrege Haskins, Col.
j. j. Estey, the Hon. +. W. Stod-
dard and a score of others who are
men of brains, men Of Principle, men
of Truth and Veracity, men of Edu-
cation, Intelligence and Executive A
bility, men whom the state would de-
light to honor, but as have said they
are not available and for the simple
reason that they are men who will
not put their nose in the mud and
start scrub race for the gubernatori-
al chair with third-rate machine poll
ticians who are pushed by heelers and
stool pigeons all over the state. So
you see we are using such material as
we have at hand and if the delegates
at the State convention will waive the
question of fitness of our candidate
and consider the claims of Brattleboro
and place our Levi in nomination |
think there is no question about his
election, Notwithstanding Peeping
Tom said in an article few weeks
ago that if Levi was nominated and
the Democrats put up clean man like
Oscar Marshall of Brattleboro Levi
would be showed under in His own
town. This may be true, and prob
ably is, but there are many towns in
the State where the result would be
different, where Levi is not as we'll
known as he is here. No one be-
lieves for moment but what if our
Levi is placed in nomination and has
a fair show he will win over any man
the Democrats can put up, although
it may be close shave, a case similar
perhaps to that of the young Doctor
in his first case of confinement the old
Dr.. with whom he was practicing be-
ing called away for consultation and
during his absence the young man
was called upon to officiate. The old
DR.. returned during the night and in
the morning asked the young man
what luck, "well, " said He, "the mo-
ther and child are both dead but am
in hopes that the old man will pull
through" SO in this case while it
might be staggering blow to the Re-
publican party in Vt. we think our
Levi would pull through and Brattle-
boro would have a Governor. Now if
the gentlemen Of the convention after
mature deliberation come to the con-
clusion that our candidate is not re-
sponsible for his aspiration we hope
they will deal gently with him and
forgive him as they hope to be for
given. And should they, in their
wisdom, place in nomination a good
man like Ex-Gov. Fletcher Col. Fair
banks or Maj. Grout we will cheer
fully waive our claim for the present
and give tue candidate our cordial
support, believing that either of the
three gentlemen would sweep the state
with tidal wave that would roll up
a republican majority that would
make us feel proud of old Vermont.
CITIZEN