Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-05-27
THE GOVERNOR QUESTION.

way W oooohe CoiislueTdDly sllnpllHeu.
In the first place the question of our rep
resentation in Congress, which has been
considerably connected with the Cover
nor Question, approaches a settlement,
and with increasing prospects of our
retaining our present number of Con-
gressmen. Mr.. Wizards supplemental
bill has passed the House, and the Wash
ington correspondents say it has fair
chance of passing the Senate. Our own
Senators, who ought to know what the
chances are. have hitherto had very lit
tie hope of carrying the bill through the
Senate; but the unexpectedly strong
vote by which it passed the House. must
have helped its prospects in the other
body. If it passes it will be an evil
dence of Mr.. Wizards ability and in
fuence, and claim upon the gratitude
of the people of his District and of the
State, which ought to, and we believe
will, secure his denomination for a third
term.
But. in the second place, Governor
Stewart must, it seems, be counted out
of the list of possible nominees for Con-
gress. Till within few days we under
stood the Governors position to be as
state felt disposed to accord to him the
denomination for second term, which
they have customarily given their Gov
ernors, he would be content and graft
fed by a denomination for Governor
This would satisfy his personal prefer
ences, and he asked nothing more. But
if there was good reason to suppose, in
the event of a. reduction of our repre-
sentation in Congress, that the Republi-
cans of the west side of the state would
prefer that he should represent them in
Congress, he should not feel at liberty
to decline call to permit the use of his
name in that connection.
This position was square and honor
able one. But it was peculiarly open to
Misrepresentation, and with aspirants
for Congress in every county on the west
side of the mountain, there were not
wanting those who were ready to take
advantage of it. 1t was at once clam
ored that Governor Stewart was trying
to sit on two stools; that he must be al
lowed his pick of offices; that he was,
keeping everything unsettled, while he
was making up his mind what he want
ed, &c. This clamor, appears, by di-
rect or indirect effect to have answered
its purposes. We are now informed by
Governor Stewart, that in no contingent
cy that he considered possible one,
will he be a candidate for Congress, and
that he aciN be candidate for renomi-
nation as Governor.
We shall waste no words in quarrel
ing with this decision. We believe, that
in the event of redistricting of the state
Gov. Stewards friends on this side of
the state would have given him very
pressing call to represent the west dis
trict in Congress, and that his name
would be by far the strongest one, in
any Convention fairly representing that
district; but nobody intends to force
Mr.. Stewart into any Office OF candidacy
for any Office; and his conclusion being
deliberate and final, of course there will
be no further talk of him as a possible
candidate fer Congress.
Of course, too, if Gov. Stewart is re.
nominated, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Dale
will be also entitled to denomination,
and such settlement of the Governor
question will settle the Lieutenant Gov
ernor question. Huntington Free Press.
1t has been said that the Southern
States will rally en- masse for Greeley.
That there are some who do not take
stock in the Cincinnati ticket is evident
from the following which we clip from
the De Soto, Miss Times, represen-
tative organ of the Democracy of that
State:
"Will you vote for Greeley? This i:
the popular question now. Every mar
you meet propounds this question. We
have been asked the same forty time,
since Greeley's nomination. We are by
Greeley like certain man we hav,
heard of was about eating crow. Being
asked if he could eat crow, he replied
well, l suppose can, but d-n me if
banker after it Now we suppose W,
can vote for Greeley, but we don't hank
: err after him. q We do not en-
dorse Greeley-nor have we any use TO
him, and if we support him it will b,
almost through compulsion, and be tn,
last resort
: This is by no means an isolated in
stance, many of the leading newspaper
and politicians expressing similar senti
ments. Mr.. Greeley, more than an.
other Republican, is, perhaps, deserving
of the support of the South, but whel
that support compels the surrender o
their party organization, and the acccp
lance of a platform every plank of whicl
is antagonistic to Democratic principles
the way is not so clear as the friends o
| Mr.. Greeley would lead US to believe.
D The Louisville Journal, the leadin