Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1866-10-12
70 the \. !. Times

Special Dispatch TO the \. !. Times
VERGEsSEs, VT, Monday, Oct. s.
The Vermont Legislature meets on Wednes
day next Hon. J. W. Stewart will be unani
nously reelected Speaker. Two United State:
Senators are to be chosen. Hon. J. S. Morrill,
Member Of Congress, will have no competitor,
for one Of the vacancies in the Senate. but fol
the other, Hon. George F. Edmunds, Couserva-
tive Republican, will find formidable one in
the person Of Gen. Underwood, Radical Sumner
Republican.
Special Dispatch to the n. Y. Tribune
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. Monday. Oct 6
A convention lie called by some Republican.
of the Hid District Of Vermont to nominate a
Conservative candidate who can gain enough
Democratic votes to defeat the Radical csndi-
date, the Hon. P. Baxter, NJ. c. The Hon.
George F. Ednunds will find formidable op
position to his election as United States Senator,
as his political sasacity Is doubted. His
speeches in the Senate on the Hsbeas Corpus
bill were distss;eful to Vermont The praise be
won from Copperhesds was unfortunate, for he
10 doubtless true Republican. The Hon. Levi
Underwood and the Hon. Fred. E. Woodbridge,
are talked Of for the place In both men Yer
mont places the fullest confidence. The Yer
mont Legislature meets next Wednesday. A
lively time may be expected. The Hon. ]. S.
Morrill,, NJ. c., will be unanimously elected Sen
stor for the long term.
The above special dispatches TO the New
York papers have evidently common origin,
and, as Is equally evident, were concocted
solely for effect in Vermont Somebody evil
IDENTIFY thinks that the members of our Vt.
legislature know 30 little about the standing
OF our public men and the relations Of our
State politics, that they can be be influenced
by the suggestions of an anonymous scrib-
bier in Addison County, simply because bis
irresponsible and incorrect statements ap-
pear in the columns of a city journal. Lest
persons outside Of the State should be
misled by this stuff, let us say that there is
no question in Vermont az 10 the political
soundntss Of Senator Edmunds, nor will
there lie any formidable opposition to his
election. lie is known as a staunch reprc-
tentative Of Republican principles of the
true, advanced stamp,-utterly opposed to
"my policy" in favor of the action Of Con-
gress, and going further than the majority
in Congress, in beng an earnest friend and
advocate of impartial suffrage; and there is
no danger that the Legislature of Vermont
will throw him overheard simply to crafty
the personal piques Of some uneasy poll
ticians IN the Third district.
The whole story Of the petty opposition
to Mr.. .Edmunds, which crops out in these
Addison County illusions, is this He dared
once, several years ago, to allow his name
TO be used as a candidate for Congress,
against the member from the Third district.
who holds biz Office perpetually and by
diYine right. Since then some OF those
who fayor.d Mr.. Edmunds at that time,
have opposed and are opposing Mr.. Baxter
as an unfit and unworthy representative
With the present fight, Mr.. Edmunds has
had no connection whatever but because
some of bis friends are in it, and to crafty
an old grudge, he is struck at. For this
purpose, the name of cx-Lieut. Governor
Underwood is used, without his knowledge
or consent perhaps, by men who care moth
ing for him, except 50 far as his influential
pane can be made to help their schemes Of