St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-09-03
STATE SUMMARY.
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The second ballot was not declared un-
till after and resulted as follows:


Fred G. Bundy, 757
H. M. Cheney, 655
c. A. Calderwood, 25
There was the widest enthusiasm
after the announcement of the vote and
Representative Bundy was soon found
and escorted to the band stand where he
addressed the crowd as follows.
"MY FRIENDS: am called on to express
my gratitude to the citizens of st. Johns
bury for the unparalleled honor they
have shown me in eIecting me for the
second time, to represent them in the
legislature.
Through all my joy at this result runs
a little thread of regret that l have been
obliged to run against two meu, whom l
esteem as personal friends, honest, hon.
orable gen lemen, who have never been
guilty of dishonorable act.
l can only hope that this days work
may not interrupt the friendships of
lifetime.
The result of the vote of today is due
not to any especial popularity of your
representative elect, not to any remark
able fitness of his for the position but as
protest from the citizens of St, Johns
bury against the work Of the Law and
Order league the past year.
A protest against the persecution and
financial ruin of good man, the SANDER
and viifcation of an old and respected
citizen, the backyard spying upon repu-
table business houses, and finally last
but not least. the employment of pro-
fessiona spotter in S.. Tohnsbury.
The turning loose upon the community
OF this dirty, drunken whelp, poisoning
the minds of our boys with his stories OF
conquests among women, teaching them
all the wickedness that a depraved de-
generate mind could imagine, gradually
leading them on to some infraction OF
our liquor law, that he might, Judas like,
earn his 80 pieces of silver, was the
GROWING insult Of all
The career Of the White River Junction
spotter was much the same. Drinking,
gambling, showing obscene pictures, he
wound up his career by the shooting and
killing in cold blood of an innocent man
: The spotter was arrested, tried, and &C
: quilted, and to-day walks the earth q
: free man, while that widowed mother
a balnlacc tatl1arIeeG LITTLE chill
dren cry in vain for justice on the murder
: of the husband and father.
t 1t is such doings as these that have
turned the stomachs of the Republicans
of Vermont until they are willing to dc
anything Tor relief.
4 To the Law and Order League | say
= that St. Johnsbury is to- day purer, NOR
d ally and politically than ever before il
her history. You don't believe it? LIE
s me call your attention to that ring o
:. drunken politicians who controlled
affairs political in St. .Johnsbury ant
10 Caledonia County for 80 years. TIL
= day is gone by when three men can NEE
in a lawyers back office, and decide WHIT
Ii shall be the representative this year, ant
who two years from now.
r Let me remind you otthoSe tremendou
n scandals that used to break out period
icallv in our churches, shaking st Johns
e bury homes and S.. Johnsbury society t.
s. the very foundations.
s We stood all these things in those day
!. and no one seemed particularly worrie
!. over the moral outlook, but now if "a poo
girl goes astray or some unfortunate wit
-, more load than he can carry brlngsup /
- the police station, we roll up our eyes an
- say what are we comtng to- We are no
coming, we have arrived.
:. We have reached that point where
p man is judged by the life he leads, not b
- the professions he makes.
l admit there is not the ostentatior
k display of piety that there used to b.
The time is past when a young MAJ
# business or social advancement depend
upon his ability to make a good pray'
or his activity in church work. Unde
X stand me as in no way sueering at tt
cause of religion. believe in it, but
v believe in the religion that governs
mans daily life, that tempers his dea
n ings with his fellowman, rather than Il
;s religion that is worn upon the sleeve
al be traded for some personal advantag
,v Now Just word as to the reports
" nv hostility to our corporations, repor
- that are as foolish as they are false.
any danger threatens the corporation
T., of St. Johnsbury, it will be my busine
Tic to defend them as far as my ability W
" allow, to work for their wellbeing whe
ever possible, but should any issue arl
ay where the interests of the people and t
se, corporations clash, my voice and n
er- vote shall be for the people. But fir
liza and foremost, over and above ever
st thing else, my sympathy, my intere
ia and my work shall be for those W
i'll, bear the burden and heat of the de
RE who take all the hard knocks of life,
Ill; working men.
OF, Money always has friends, and
legislature is full of men who are ankle
are to do the bidding of the money pow
av but the working man with no nor
Mt and no influence has friends that are
.ha and far between, but among those
MS, will always be found Bundy OF st. Job
an. bury, and the men who have voted
til. me today know, that in the language
the ritual, What | promise that T
form"
aid Ore more word to those friends "
have stood by me in this fight, who h
in. never failt d to respond to my cry tor
no in nv political contests, those trie