The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-02-02
THE POSTOfFIOE CASE.
DAYLIGHT INTO A FEW OF THE MI
kEPkt BENTATIONB.

KEPk' sENrATIONs.
By Means Of the Unfcisl Democratic What
Ed >hsa Says Of tho Misrepresentation
About Him-And the Assistant Postmss
ter General Says There IL Nothing to the
Farr-Lindsey Csao-What Common ssnss
Says About tho Begus Issue So Undue
triously Worked Up-The Fscte About the
Faction Fight Among tho Republicans
Democratic and their Public and Parry
Duty.
The Pfo1ix last week contained another
| letter from John Calvin on the most off 20
question. Omiting the personalities 10 1t, the
points were reduced to three and John IL to
he congratulated for at last getting them Into
DEFINITE shape where they can be definitely
| met.
The frat one is that Postmaster ChIlds' re.
appointment four years ago, instead OF heing
due TO the fact that he chad given 20 IN Client
an administration as to require It 10 the pub.
| lie interests was tn result Of "a local fac.
tioual fight In the Republican party, and be
was used as q club to fight the battle with.
/ ana You know It," The truth Is that the "fsc.
| ttonal fight" instead OF assisting Guilds to the
appointment, furnished the only OBSTACLE to
It. except the indlsposition Of the Harrison
administration to appoint Democrats, which
latter was only overcome by bis remarkably
good record and the demonstration of the
popular strength II commanted even among
bis political opponents. The leaders OF the
two factions, generally speaking, were ar
rayed on opposite sides OF that question.
But those supporting Childs were In the min
orlty on any other issue. 1t go proved at the
town meeting that followed few weeks Ia.
ter, at the caucus that elected delegates for
Col. Hooker for congress, at all the caucus,
until they were swallowed up 10 the "har-
mony" Of the last campaign. The other fac.
tiOn universally swept things; but they
couldn't do It against Chllds' reappolntment
because the thoughtful ctizsns who cared
nothing about factions and sought only the
best at.ainabe public service would not fol.
low.
In other words, Childs won In spite OF the
faction fight and not because of 1t. Mr. Gal
vim would see that this was so II he)would STOP
to thiHk for moment or two. The move
ment for Chiids' reappointment began 10
with the circulation of petitions, which were
signed by 1922 citizens or within about 200 of
all 1t was possible TO get. Men of all parties
and OF all factions signed for him without
suspicion of any facttonal issue involved. II
was not for several months afterwards that
anything of the sort developed. The caucu.
In which the factions Individually played q
large part was held Feb 1, 1890, months after
the Childs petitions were completed. 1t was
Just before this caucu, that the hitherto ma
jority faction was rallied, the various candi-
dates who had before been In the field dis
carded and new man put forward In Mr..
Hines. The result was q considerable reduc.
ton Of the preponderance Chi de- had shown
on the petitions, but even then be won bv a
majority OF over 60 In a caucus confined
strictly to Republicans. His vote 467, and that
FOR Hines 401, so that as a matter of cold |
q cures instead Of the factional fight helping |
Chiis 1t cost him the votes of some 200 men |
that had signed petitions for him.