Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-03-10

From the "Orlcans Independent Standard" March ..
FREDERICK HOLDBR0OK FOR GOVERNOR.
The State of Vermont has for years pursued
the suicidal policy Of denying its young men
any share in the honors of office. We say the
State of Vermont, for practically the dominant
party is the State, and while the democratic
party has always recognised its young men. and
done what it could for them, the wing party al
ways kept them in the back ground When
the democrats triumphed few years ago, it
was Robinson and Kidder, two of its younger
men, who were elected Governor and Lieuten-
ant. But the whig party always went upon the
principle that man was not fit TO be Governor
till he vas so old as to be fit for nothing else.
The consequence has been that scores and hun
dreds of young men of generous ambition and
of talents adequate to any station to which they
aspired, have left Vermont to seek elsewhere
The promotion denied to them at home. They
ere scattered all through the west and we con-
tinually hear of them as Governors, Judges, and
Members of Congress.
1t is time that a different policy was adopted
We are prepared TO maintain the proposition
that what a man is not fit for at forty-five, he
will never be fit for. Our neighboring state,
Massachusetts,, elects its governors from among
its yonng men, and what splendid governors it
has. Who supposes that n =. Banks is less
competent as Il governor than he would be at
seventy five years of ageP But if he had lived
in Vermont it would have been an almost i'm
possible thing for him to be talked of even,
with reference to the governorship till he was
at least sixty years old. We believe the inter
csts of the republican party in Vermont, re-
quire a reformation in that respect. 1t has al
ready elected three governors Royce Fletcher.
and Hail. all on the shady side of sixty, and
one of them almost seventy years of age.
There is not word to be said in depreciation
of either of them.-rhcy all were and are most
excellent men. But we want to see one COVER
nor of Vermont, in the prime of life, in the
maturity of his talents, on tie sunny side of
fifty and we present to the young republicans
of Vermont the name of Frederick lIolbrook
of Brattleboro, as the man above all others en-
titled to their support.
Mr.. Hobrook is in the prime of life, Gust
forty six) and man of eminenty practical talent.
He is farmer, and no man in Vermont has
done so much to advance the interests OF far
mers as he He was the founder and first Pres
idcnt of the Vermont Agricultural Society, and
by his sound judgment and good management
it has been carried forward in a career of UNI
interrupted prosperity and usefulness. His
writings on agriculture are admired all over the
country, and have gained him a place in the
front rank of authors in that department. He
is man of the purcst morality sound and de-
cided republican principles, and would confer
as much honor on the Office as he would derive
from it. Give us Frederick lIolbioo as Il can
didate, and we can go into the campaign not as
mere matter of form, but with hearty en-
thusiasm, and we believe his nomination would
excite more enthusiasm among the voters in
general than can be raised i'll any other way.
Orleans StoHdard.