Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-09-13
Second District.

Second District.
We have witnessed with much regret
some things which have been said in the
controversy, mainly at the upper end of
this district, relative to the nomination
of candidate for Congress.
The attempt to detract from the abili-
ties and position of Judge Poland as
the representative of this district, is un-
worthy of our cause and of the men over
whom this controversy 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 Po
land has always served our State on I'M
portant regular committees, and that
Vermont has actually had, through him,
more than her proportion Of work and
service on important special committees
during the past six years. And this too,
is urged by some who six years ago de-
manded in very earnest words the cleo
tion of Judge Poland as United States
Senator over Senator Morrill,
Now the truth proves to be that Judge
Poland has given none of his Congress
sional 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 a large law prac-
tice! Would man of such poor abili-
ties and small influence be sought for in
important cases. 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 elo-
quent Woodford, in reply to those pic
ayune charges of democratic Greeleyism,
that the president had received presents
from friends before he was president, }
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 renomina-
ton of Judge Poland.
Now gentlemen, if any number of you,
or young lawyers as it is sometimes said,
desire the election Of Judge Steele, whose
fine abilities it gives us great pleasure to
concede, why Go SO in manner worthy
of your man, and Of the cause we al
favor, but the attempt to detract and de-
preciate the services of an able and
faithful member of Congress, is not only
unprecedented in our district but I'M
worthy OF you who make it.
As to the usual three term argu
ment, why, it amounts to nothing
There are surely no established "prece
dents of that kind in this district
Horace Everett served well fourteen
years (most of our present district, and
though of good abilities and position
they we're not equal to those of eithel
Senator Morrill, or Judge Poland. Judg,
Collamer served in the House, and from
there went into the Cabinet and Senate
while Andrew Tracy served but singh
term, and Judge Hebard six years.
Now, then. no reasonable man can o
will, we think, deny the abilities o
Judge Poland, or his useful services
Then, why does he not deserve a re-elec
ton at the hands of his constituents, a
the end of his six years of service, jus
as much as Horace Everett at the en-,
of his six years, or Senator Morrill, a
the end of his