Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-06-23
Infamous SANDERS.

A representative of the Montpelier Journal
visited Randolph last week and furnished his
paper with I'll article on the two leading
topic, of the week, the bank failure and the
Republican caucus, which fairly brstled with
venom tal>ehuod, ana ander. The Journal
has always EXHIBITED intense luminosity tow
arr W. b. Wall and has never missed an op.
poriunty to assail him.
In the recent senatorial caucus struggle In
Randolph. the Herald and News did not sup
port Mr. Wall, but when ii sees a Iepat able
citizen fouy attacked aud held up to public
Scorn without warrant or reason, 1t will de-
fenu him in the interest of truth and JUS
lice.
After crllicising F. s. Platt, state inspector
of finance, for hasty action in bringing about
the closing of the Saving, bank the journal
avs: There are those who are saying that
the inspe ctor owes his present official position
TO W. B. Wall of this place. AID that Mr..
Nal, III his Struggle for supremacy over the
o her 10 al candidate for county senator, was
not consumed W tn grief because of the fact
hat the banks doors was closed on the day
before the local caucus was held for the cleo
ion of deleg ates to the county convention !;
nor did he sorrow because of the embarrass-
ment this coincidence might cause the officials
of the bank, nearly of whom were staunch
supl orlers of II. j. Kmba|l."
If it were possible, the journal would hold
Wall accountable for the bubnnic plague or
the Boxers trouble in China. And 1t might
do so With iully AS mach warrant as to in
>inuate that he connived with the state in
nothing of the impending failure until after
the bank directors did and had signed the
necessary papers. He had not seen Mr.. Platt
and did not know he was in town. Instead
of welcoming the failure, Mr.. Wall tried to
induce the in pfctor to defer action until
some arrangenlt mt could he made. He had
supporters, as well as opponents, among the
BANKS offcia and its closing could have no
possible effect on the caucus. though to make
him accountable for 1t in any degree would :,
and doubt ess the publ he'd reports have, in
iured him in towns outside 1t is most in.
ncsivabe that anyone could originate SO
infamous tale and set 1t aloat for political
purposes.
The Journal further says
"The late caucus to chose delegates to
the county convention continues to be the
subject OF comment. All sorts of stories
are told of the ways and means employed
to carry it for Wall. Well authenticated
reports that money, rum and other good
things were very free before the caucus
| are everywhere current, but that anybody
was influenced to vote for the Wall ticket
by any other consideration than pure
patriotism or love and admiration of the
man might be hard to prove in a court of
law. as such things usually are and are
intended to be.
ut is curious to note that the TELEGRAM
of Barre said the result was most EN-
phatc endorsement of WALL The query
is what did the voters endorse? Was
sona canvass, with all sorts of promises,
and the other things told above, that was
ever held in town? At the caucus a mob
took possession of the hall, the head of
the Wall ticket was chairman, voters
handed up their tickets over each others
heads, like reaching out for tickets at a
circus. There was no record, no check
We're legal voters in town, whether they
ever voted the Republican ticket before
There is no doubt whatever that many
who voted were Democrats, and as for
any care that was taken to prevent there
could have been plenty OF repeating. Are
these the things the Republicans Of Ran
! dolph have most emphatically endorsed
rs the question many citizens Of Randolph
are rising, and if the answer is, Yes, they
are not proud of their town. Among OBJ
servers of the proceedings there are those
who have hardly doubt that if only Re-
pubhcans VINO were entitled TO vote had
oled at the caucus the Kimball ticket
"ouid have been elected. lie had the votes
oi tne best Republicans the business men,
t c citizens who have the best interests If the
community at heart, and he mas right to he
proud of the character of his support and the
size of his Vote"
This paper is only concerned about the re-
norris tat money. rum and other good
things" were used to influence the caucus,
and il regard to the caucus itself. Will any
one make these charges openly? They ale
absolutely untrue. There We're no indica.
tons Whatever that impr per means were
used ON either SIDE to influence ANYBODY.
the caucus was as orderly and decorous as
any assemblage of the sIze and kind ever was.
The chairman as agreed on by both sides,
as wa the remainder of the caucus prog ram
No check list vas used-none has ever been
used at IL caucus in Randolph. Nobody OBJ.
iiected to the way the voting was done. If
the ent re Democratic vote of Randolph were
-ubtracted from Mr.. Via Is vote, he still
would have carried the caucus by 100 ma-
.ority-but there L. no proof that single
Democrat vo ed for him.
Here in Randolph the Journals tissue of
lies has no weight, but such reports circula-
td throughout the country and state are in
furious, not only to the political chances of
Mr.. Wall, in which this paper is not con.
cerned, but to his personal character and the
reputation of this town, both of which the
Herald will sustain. Randolph Herald.