Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-10-16

It are not arraying their forces against
Gen. Buckner. but against the man with
the high water pants" Bryan Horoo !
from Nebraska. Again there is not a
ghost OF a show for Buckner to get any,
where To do harm even if lac wanted to.
81 that If the republican press should
kick they would kick at nothing. Il hurts
awiully to kick at nothing. Further,
. Buckner stands withthe republican party
tor dollar worth Ole hundred celts. He
is where he can't do any harm if he want
ed to and he is trying to do a little good.
why should the republican press object
We may say that the lines are drawn,
and the one issue in This campaign is the
salvation of the nation. When the repub-
leans got after Buckner in the time Of
the war he was not trying to save the
country. When the republican press be-
gins to chase Gen. Buckner with the
Bloody Shirt you can make up your mind
that he is trying to do some harm, or
trying to get into place where there is
fair prospect of his doing harm. At
present he is doing good, in homeopathic
doses IT is true. and the republican press
is doing right to encourage him in the
practice of patriotic principles. 1t is pos
sible that his patriotic stand for national
honor, national credit and the right
eousness" that exalteth a nation may give
him taste for better things. His next
step may be out of the wilderness into
Canaan; lie is already out oil Egypt.
Protection, reciprocity and sound money
is the promised land for this people. The
/ republican press does well in that it puts
no stumbling block in the way of Gold
Democrats" but rather encourages them
to go up and possess the land.
Four years ago things were different
from what they are now in the case of
Gen. Buckner. Think it would have been
better for the country if Gen. Buckner
had been put OH the ticket four years ago.
The bloody shirt without doubt would
have been waved, and we think success
fully. We are persuaded that the time
has not yet arrived when the people of
these United States are ready to elect for
President or Vice President a man who
was Secessionist. We do not say that
Gen. Buckner would have done harm.
But we do say that we think that his
record during the rebellion--or the bloody
shirt that would be waved against him
would so operate on the people that they
would see to it that he was not placed
in position where he might do harm.
What a pity Gen. Buckner was not
nominated four years ago! What pity
that "Old Bloody Garment" did not have
chance! How much it would have
saved us from From being the laughing
stock of the world through our Demo-
cratic foreign policy. From the incom-
potency and imbecility of Democratic
legislation at home. From business stag
nation and many, very many, poor peo-
pie from the very verge OF starvation.
And lastly from the Silver craze nonsense,
this blathersRite and mountebank per-
formance of the Chicago Convention
nominee. What blessing Buckner and
the bloody Shirt would have been to us !!
where would Vermont stood today
politically if the St. Louis Convention
had straddled or declared for Free Sill
ver?" This is hard question to answer
for we are neither a prophet nor the son
OF prophet, but we venture the asser-
ton that the honest yeomanry of Yer
mont would be found on the right side
right side up with care" If the conven-
ton had "straddled" it would have split.
If it had declared for Free Silver it would
have been "in the soup''-as the demo-
Gratis are now. Further, Mr.. Editor,
this Palmer and Buckner Democrat says
You certainly cannot deny but that
there was danger of the St. Louis con-
benton doing either" That is there was
danger of a straddle or declaration for
Free Silver. We do not pretend to deny
that there was danger, but we think it
remote. There is danger of the tangen-
tial-force being withdrawn that ruskes
this earth in its orbit, and then of it's
crashing into the sun. but we don't ex-
pect it to happen for some time. Neither
do we expect the republican party to lend
itself-while it retains what brains it
now has-to any scheme that must event
ually issue in reputation, in dishonesty,
in the destruction of national credit. 1t
is true there is some excuse for the other
party. They were driven to the wall. In
everything they have undertaken to do
except kick-they have manifested their
inability and imbecilty. When they went
into the Chicago convention they had
not single plank on which they could
stand. That was the opportunity of the
"Silver Kings" and when that descend
ant of men who had kissed the Barney
Stone held up before that convention the
blessings which would surely follow the
introduction of fifty cent dollar they
jumped for it like drowning man for a
plank. 1t was their only hope. But they
were too far gone, it could not save them.
Speak kindly of the dead,
BE aisy" with their failings,
Let them down softly,