Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-09-18
From the Beilows Pals Times
Second District.

We have witnessed with much regret some
things which have been said n the controyer.
sy, mainly at the upper end of this district
relative 10 the nomination of candidate for
Congress
The attempt to detraet from the abilities
and position Of Judge Poland as the repre-
sentative of this district is unworthy of our
cause and Of the men over whom this contro.
yersy is waged. We are much surprised to
see some of our republican brethren charging
that Judge Poland has no position in Congress
and no influence there Also that he has
practiced law too much And all this in the
face Of the fact that Judge Poland has always
served our State on important regular COM
mittees, and that Vermont has actually had,
through him, more than her proportion Of
work Ind service on important special com.
mittees during the past six years. And this,
too, is urged by some who six years ago de-
manded in very earnest words the election Of
Judge Poland as United States Senator over
Senator Morrill,
Now the truth proves to that Judge Poland
has given none of his Congressional time to
the practice of the law, and that he has had
but few cases in all his Congressional life.
But to depreciate his abilities, position and
influence and then charge him with large
law practice! Would a man of such poor
abilities aud small influence be sought for in
important cases2 See gentlemen, how your
man of straw falls by his own weight!
Even bill Of fees which had been cut
down few hundred dollars, and less than
Senator Edmunds received in the same case.
is paraded as evidence that Judge Poland
should not be returned. Oh, gentlemen, in the
words of the eloquent Woodford in reply to
those picayune charges Of democratic Gree
leyism, that the president had received pres
ents from friends before he was presdent,)
amt you ashamed OF yourselves
Why, the lamented Collamer, in his long
and useful congressional life, was occasionally
employed in important law cases, and it is
enough to make his bones rattle in his coffin
to see some Of the reasons set forth against
the denomination of Judge Poland!
Now gentlemen, if any number Of you, or
young lawyers as it is sometimes said, desire
the election ofJudge Steele, whose fine abil-
ties it gives us great pleasure to concede, why,
do so in manner worthy Of your man, and
OF the cause we all favor; but the attempt to
detract and depreciate the services of an able
and faithful member Of Congress is not only
unprecedented in our district, but unworthy of
you who make it.
As to "the usual three term" argument,
why, it amounts to nothing. There are
surely no established eprecedents " of that
kind in this district. Horace Everett served
well fourteen years, (most of our present dis
trict,) and though of good abilities and po-
sltion, they were not equal to those of either
Senator Morrill, or Judge Poland. Judge
Collamer served in the House. and from there
went into the Cabinet and Senate, while
Andrew Tracy served but single term, and
Judge Hebard six years.
Now, then, no reasonable man can or will,
we think, deny the abilities of Judge Poland,
or his useful services. Then. why does he
not deserve reelection at the hands Of his
constituents, at the end of his six years Of
service, just as much as Horace Everett at
the end Of bis six years, or Senator. Morrill,
at the end of his