Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-05-04
THE VILLAGE MEETING,
Something Not Down OH the
Program.

The A. =. A. shows Its Hand and Near
~ Defeats the two Roman Catholics
Nominated for Bailins.
Compared with last year the annua vii
lage meeting on Tuesday was quite an eX-
citing event. Then only ~ votes were
cast for the officers elected, while this year
highwater mark was 141 votes Last
year when the polls were closed and the
order OF business was taken up there were
only - voters in the hall, including the
elections officers Thi, year there were
II voters in the hall without the elections
officers, But this was not very great
number to transact a YEAR business and
appropriate money for the years expenses
for 5000 people. The ballot clerks and
moderator whiled away the time from 8
till as best they might. and when at =
o clock the box was turned and the votes
counted this result was shown:
For bailitts, II. C.. Streeter had 120
votes: John Calvin. IS: Thomas Harmon,
al: /. II. Putnam. 1874 NJ. j. Moran,
a. These were the regular nominees
whose names appeared on the official bal
lot In addition G.. A. Hines had 80: +.
a. Whitney. 50; i. c. Crosby, Is: Thorn
as Judge, .: D. =. Webster. John Wright,
Henry W Moore +. II. Richardson, j.
L. knowlton, a. Y. Cox, James BOyce,
one each
For collector L. L. Gordon had 13g
votes W. ID. Perry had III for clerk and
l34 for treasurer c. c. Turner. lis for
chief engineer: G.. c. Harris. lbs for audit
or. and there was one or two scattering for
each of these offices
For balif, as will be seen by reference to
the figures, G.. a. Hines and T. a. Whit
nev were tied. each having one vote more
than John Calvin. the regular nominee,
and there was no election As soon as
this result was known another ballot was
announced. There was some lively Skin
mishing for the space OF an hour, and
when the box was turned for the second
time and the result announced it appeared
that John Calvin had "a votes @. A.
Hines, "a; F. A Whitney. II; and there
were three scattering. a plurality electing
under the new ballot law, the election OF
Calvin was declared.
From the fact that the names of John
Calvin and NJ. j. Moran were alone cut 10
any considerable extent it was evident that
the scratching Of the ticket was aimed at
them Nobody believed that Republicans
had voted against them because they were
Democrats. and ii was evident that the
scratching was not on account of the fac
tiOnal fight IN the Democratic party be-
cause Calvin belongs TO the Bourbon mi
nority while Moran is a stanch adherent of
the majority. Ii didn' { take long TO figure
out. therefore. that the -. Z. 4. the
much-talked of American Protective as
ISOLATION had been getting IN its work
and voting against Calvin and Moran be-
cause they are Roman Catholics. IL was
not generally supposed that the association
had an active organization here, although
il was known that more or less work had
been done in its behalf. Calvin and No
ran had warning OF what was going on
word being passed around during the day
that the A. y. a. was showing its hand.
The movement receives no counteuauce III
the community as a whole, and such Prot
estant business men as CHANGED to be al
hand while the second ballot was in prog
ress promptly cast their votes for MI Gal
win. the caucus nominee
Under the second article in the warrant
it was voted to accept and adopt the an
nual report OF the village officers. Under
article 3 a tax OF 40 cents on the dollar
was voted
The regular business being over, Col
Hooker called attention TO the need of a
revision OF the village in several respects
notably so that the erection of tire-trap,
and other dangerous structures may be
prevented. and to provide for a return tc
the old way of holding the village meeting,
in the evening. Col. Hooker, Gen. Estey
and @. B, Hit were appointed a commit
tee TO present TO the legislature such
amendments as are needed.