The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-06-12
THE REPUBLICAN FIGHT.
Continued from 9th page.)

Though Swanton and Enosburg
have this week pronounced Tor Trout,
the large towns generally have proved
Stickney stror gholds But Maj. Grout
has great strength among the farmers
and his friends are 'confident that when
the towns are all heard from he will
pull ID with majority.
II certainly looks like an exceedingly
close fight.
Home interest has centered largely
during the week On the contest against
Gen. CIRCUITS re nomination toCongress.
1t proves TO be true, as stated last
week. that j. L. Martin of Brattleboro,
l.. NJ, Read OF Bellows Falls and Frank
Plumlev of Mortified are all in the
field against him. The fight has come
up SO lately that no intelligent classi-
tication of delegates can be made. All
that il known is reported elsewhere.
Plumley claims Washington county
solid and says he has assurances OF
support from every part OF the district.
Judge Read says he Is sure OF support
in Windham, Windsor, Orange and
Washington counties. just how much :
will develop later is not known.
Our advices are that Mr..
Martin is the second choice
Of ashington county, and certainly
good share of the Windsor county
delegates are for him. Judge Read
denies the report that there is an un-
Outstanding betwee him and Martin
that the one who has the least support
from his own county shall withdraw so
as to have solid support, except what
Circuit has. for county man. But If
this is not done, it is altogether likely
that no Windham county man will get
it, and naturally there will be strong
pressure in the county caucus to get
such an arrangement, especially rs the
two men have the utmost friendliness
for each other Mr.. Martin says he is
willing to abide by the result in this
county and he bad understood from
Judge Reads friends that the latter
was. Mr.. Martin says that he had no
desire to enter the fight for such hon
ors. I'm ia CT, he says, lat the time
consented 10 be candidate ii was
with the understanding that there
were no other candidates in the field
a nd of this ] was assured by my
friends. But no sooner was it known
that was a candidate than others
were entered in the race. At the first
was told that there were to be no
oppositional candidates to Gen. Grout
and il Was then | entered the field"
Judge Read and Plumley both cay
that they had refused solicitations
earlier in the season to run and only |
concluded to do SO after they adj
learned that Others, had starte
Gen. Grout evidently knew OF all
their candidates. about as soon as any /
of them did and he had all his ma
chinery operating week ago for an
energetic fight and is contrasting every
inch of ground with them all. and is
pouring out money lavishly and in big
quantities.
The district convention comes next
Tuesday and the state W ednesiay.
The silly talk of the organs about an
underground" contest is met by the
fact that Gen. Grout had his workers
in the field last week, and that none
Of the caucuses were held, anywhere !
except around CIRCUITS home at least, |
until after the public had full kuowl-
edge of it all 1t was talk to the |
galleries. and very cheap talk at
that
NJ. r. Wheeler of Rutlandltakes the |
trouble TO write to the Bellows Falls /
Times denying the report that Col.
Franklin and other phosphate sales
men were employed by his concern to
work for Mai, circuit.