Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-06-07
The State Convention.

The Union State Convention met at
Montpelier, Thursday of last week,
and for governor nominated Hon. j.
B. Page of Rutland; for lieutenant
governor Gen. Stephen Thomas of |
West Fairlee; for treasurer, John A.
Page Of Montpelier 1t was called a |
convention, when in fact
it was nothing but ratification con-
vention, in which the people had to
ratify what a few editors and politi-
clans had before decreed. We were
as we'll aware previous to the con-
vention as now what the result would
be. 1t would have been altogether
too bad in the delegates not to have
acquiesced in the nomination of Mr..
Page, after having been so prominent
ly before the people as the man, par
excellence, who was endowed by ma
ture and by God "predestinated" to
rule the turbulent masses of the great
and enterprising state of Vermont
yea, verify, the Salmon P Chase" of
our complicated financial sys tenn !;
whose abilities in that line were so
transcendent that he was able with no
other assistance than that Of a clerk,
to pay out all the money our state APP
propriated without making a mistake
and so for such a surprising lack of
pig-headedness, such as was exhibited
by his predecessor, he must needs be
made governor. All right. Emascu-
late and efete funkeyism must have
some god to worship, and it might as
we'll be him as any. He is the choice
of the old ring and that is enough
though he is far from being the first,
or even second, choice of the people,
and he ought to know it, and he prob.
ably does know it. We understand
from some of the delegates that had
John W. Stewart remained in the field
and stood his ground, he would have
received the nomination beyond a per.
adventure; but to preserve the har.
+mony Of the republican party of Yer
mont he succumbed to the powerful
minority, who for such act of patriot.
ism are to send him to congress, OF
are to make him the next governor, OF
something else, Hooray! "Great is
Diana of the Ephesians." Our can
didate, Mr.. j, S. Adams, received ele
ven votes out of some oyer 200-iust
enough exactly for future use. That
is the e."LeaUen" that is to "leaven the
whole lump" and finally "raise" the re
publican "loaf" in Vermont to the
consistency of honest "bread." and
finally make him governor Of the state
So mote it be.
Our candidate for lieutenant cover.
ner is tip-top man-we guess
fought heroically in the war, is cock.
eyed like Gen. Butler and changed
politics at the same time he did, was
a rampant democrat before the war
prosecuting the saints even unto
strange cities"-all for the honor and
glory of the hardshell party of which
he was member. But when the south
threw off the yoke of the Union he
threw off sham democracy and joined
the party that stood by the country
For that act all honor to him. He
held country far above party, donned
the federal blue and fought like tt
ger at Port Hudson, Baton Rouge, and
other places in the tar south, finishing
up his career of glory under Sheridan
at Cedar Greek. Thus much for the
general and the man. But we DOM
like the policy of running every dem
ocrat for Office who comes to us, wher
we have plenty just as good men il
our own ranks, and who haze alsoap
beeu there!
John A. Page, our candidate fol-
treasurer, is another converted demo