News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-08-22
G. w. Dolly A CANDIDATE.
Voters of Morristown:-

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Voters of MorriStoWn:-
- At the eleventh hour | am informed
| am placed in nomination for Town
Representative. presume might
have been candidate before had |
followed the custom of nowadays
and put myself up and for months,
tried to pledge everybody to vote for
me. That has, never been my style
OF politics. Quite number of voters
have brought to mind that | have
lived in this town all my lite and
never represented it, and always been
a strong working Republican. |
have never asked for your votes, but
now that | am placed honorably and
squarely before you, | ask for them
on the ground that have done as
much for my party and town as any
other man in it, and would fight for
its best interests and honor as | did
as its first man in 1861.
There are many important meas
ures likely to come before the next
Legislature, but the two which this
town will feel probably the most in
terested 10 will be the election by the
Legislature of someone TO serve out
the unexpired term oftwo years of the
late Senator Morrill,. -Four names
are mentioned, all able men and well
equipped for the place. l am not
pledged to vote for either, and unless
instructed by the town | should vote
for the one, when the time comes, that
think would best honor our state.
At present | will say my personal
preference would be Judge Ross.
Inasmuch as this Legislature will
only elect for the unexpired term OF
two years, why not let Judge Ross
fill out the term and have the biz
fight for the six year term two years
from now?
The next great question is the
liquor question. As long as grain
grows and trees bear apples and
every man has a constitutional right
to SQUEEZE the juice and drink the
Same, we shall have it to meet. |
have the moral courage of my con-
victions, and without discussing the
question in the paper, will say, will
90 all | can to repeal the present So
called prohihitory liquor law and re-
place 1t with local option or high
license law, surrounded by strong
safeguards, law that will not make
every man a liar who goes to the
agency. assert from personal
knowledge that the prohibitOry law
does not prohibit. nor do you gentle
men of the Prohibition party dare to
dO your best to execute it, for fear
the majority will boycott you. Some
ofyou do dare to tell me in private
way if | come out to help make a
change and help take your worthless
law from the statute books you will
boycott me. Now | never did scare
worth cent.
For ten years as Sheriff and Con-
stable | executed all the rum prose
cutions in town, and faithfully, ac-
cording to law, seized liquor and
spilled many barrels, making many
enemies, though they ought not to
shave blamed NE. They did not even
Know the names of their accusers,
for the accusers and informprs would
tell "uncle" Stephen lift, Grand
Juror, and myself not to let their
names be known, for it would hurt
their business. Have wegot another
law on the statute books that re-
quires such secrecy? When retired
from those offices | said to myself the
law is a miserable farce.
II you all had the moral courage
of your best convictions you would
come out as | have and express your
best Judgment that this law is worth
less tor what it was made tor and the
way in which it is executed.
AS a Morristown boy, who has
worked his way from the saw-horse
to business, who has held many Of
fees of trust in town and village,
whose first ballot had on it for the
first time printed Republican" and
was elected Constab BILE when his life
was in peril for holding the office,
who in all these years, from before
others of the candidates were born,
was doing service for his town and
country, who feels love and pride in
| IMorristown and village, as only one
can who has grown up with it from
its small beginnings and hard lines,
identified with all it's improvements,
now comes to you squarely and indie
pendentIy and asks your votes, and
in return will give you his best eff
)rts. Yours. GEORGE W. DoTY.
Angry over his inability to live as
he wished on the sum allowed him
by his father, Jose Rabiuer, con-
sumptive, at Rockawsy Beach on
Wednesday night, shot and instantly
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