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Historical Miscellany
Delinquent Voters, 3/19/1887
Rutland Herald Supplement
Part 1, Letter A
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List
of Rutland's Patriotic Citizens Who Neglected to Perform Their Duty
And Let the Knights of Labor Carry the Town
Following
is a full list of the voters of Rutland who did not vote at the
last town meeting, when the Workingmen's ticket, previously prepared
in secret by the Knights of Labor, was elected by majorities varying
from 310 to 434. It was apparent to all the supervisors of the polls
that nearly all who would have
voted
the workingmen's ticket did so, and that most of the delinquents
would have voted the other way, had they been present. In that case
the citizens' ticket would have been elected by majorities ranging
from 75 to 200 or more.
Of
course there is always a small percentage of voters who cannot attend.
In the following list some will be recognized by townspeople as
having been at that time necessarily absent from the state or confined
home by illness; but after making a liberal allowance for all such,
it is clear that more than twice as many constitute the average
voting population in entire Vermont towns neglected
the
highest duty of citizenship.
If
anything goes wrong in this town as result of the election, then
gentlemen are fairly stopped from complaining about it. The workingmen
have done their duty, as they understand it, and if the result proves
detrimental as some fear it will, the highest measure of responsibility
will rest upon those who could have prevented it and did not. The
list is as follows:
A
Abraham,
Emanuel
Adams,
Wayland
Alexander,
Eugene
Alexander,
Samuel
Allen,
Charles H.
Allen,
John M.
Allen,
Peter
Amsden,
Harry
Archibald,
Frank C.
Atherton,
Fred C.
Avery,
Andrew
Ackley,
Chester G.
Allbee
A. A.
Archibald,
Frank C.
Avery,
Andrew
Adams,
Wayland
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