Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1866-02-02

| VERMONT POLTlcs.-Ihe Springfield Re
publican is being made nowadays the vehicle
of considerable useless information, or what
is worse than useless, By ITS Vermont cores
poadents Somebody who writes from ST.
Johnsbury IN It's columns and signs himself
" Epicteius." undertakes to correct what he
calls the conjectures'' of the eorrespon-
dent from Bellows Falls who ran drag net
fr congressional candidates through the
Second district the other day; and goes on to
make some equally wild statements and con-
lectures. lie says;
C Neither Mr. Davis nor Ny Ross, who Was
brought forward as his rival, nor any other gen
tleman in this part Of the State, We believe, has
any intention Of setting up claim to the sue
ces=ion. And the sixteen candidates enumerat-
ell have, under the feryid fires Of your CORES
p0udent's imagination. Ike Falstatf's eleven
men 10 buckrau. grown out Of two.
The estimate Of the status ofseuatorial candi-
dates u the several counties, Is even less re-
liable. Addison, Rutland anl Bennington
counties were given 70 the support Of Mr. Nor
rill whereas those counties ere conceded by
AAH MH4a-4L4Nl atA o. &c AZ Ahh4A u
Judge Poland. \ gentleman whose official du-
ties have called him into every town in Rutland
county, says he has not met 4 single Morrill,
man. Bennington county has been claimed for
Mr.. Morrill, on the hypothesis that two or three
Il the leading men whose influence largely gives
direction 20 the vote give him their support.
All very vel, save that the conclusion must
fail because tie premises are false These very
men, whose names forbear 10 mention. are ac-
tive supporters of Judge Pohnd. The case in
brief stands as fl.oWs: Mr.. Morrill, Will have
little support outside ofWindso., Windham and
Orange counties, and Will lose as many votes in
these counties as he carries elsewhere in the
state"
While Epictetus was making 1t strong,
why did be not DO it thoroughly, and set
down the STATE as unanimous for Judge Pc
hnd? To declare any one county as ''zs-
anim0us,y'' in favor Of either Judge Poland
OF Mr.. Morrill,, shows great ignorance, or
great recklessncss. We venture to say that
''the well informed who concede the coun-
ties Of Addison, Rutland and Bennington,
to the unanimous support Of Judge Poland,
are themselves strongly committed TO him as
a candidate, and careful to learn nothing IN
favorable to his prospects. The channel
through which this unanimous information
was collected may have something to do /
with its value. Suppose, for instance, that |
Mr.. Joseph Poland had been the gentleman
who was called (as we believe he recently |
has beon) by bis official duties as collector
Of Internal Revenue, into the various towns |
of Rutland County. OF course those who /
do not consider the Judge The oulY good man /
for L. 5. Senator would not feel called upon
to 20 and sGy so to his brother. The press
ure Of his Official duties, or something else,
too, might possibly make him little hard Of
hearing for unpleasant expressions on the
subject. lie might thus 20 through every
town in that or IN any other county ard OBJ
tain only the opinions which agree with hIs
own; and his report consequently would be
not Of the utmost conceivable value, as
source Of information.
We presume Mr. Morrill's friends do not
make the mistake Of claiming any county as
= unanimously in his favor" bat we believe
they are well satisfied with the state Of pub
lie opinion on the Senatorial question in the
counties nsmed, and in several others, and
have good reason to be 80.