Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-05-29

AN4At Auh AAlAN-AA AAAA Al n1iloA
= Falls the lsi itssi---sOme oae suhounoe.
c auihoriiaiively that Governor Siewar
: uould eOi Be = essdiiaie Cor Cosgres
! Il any sVsni, Ia Dat be uoas eauaidsu
! g. Fe-eleeiisn coaiBg =, . ate day
~ after asPOsi Supposed, both De can
didaies Tor Congress and the Governor
ship were settled upon, this announce
neui complexities matters. aud psis the
friends Of Mr.. Stewart. who arc also III,
friends Of Mr.. BilHny,-sor they ars
both popular, able aud une1cephouable
men-in an unPleasau, position. Bone who
were favorable to the nomination OF Mr..
bfiiingzbecause they supposed Gov. Stew.
art was out Of the field. now take the
back track and advocate the rs-electi on
OF the later. Others who would have
earnestly supported Gov Stewart for Con.
gress do not approve Of bis recollection rs
Governor, believing 10 and holding TO the
two-yoars term of Office. H ...H 2
This is the position Of the Caledonian
and a. far as We know, Of the majority Of
the people Ofthis section. And the thing
for the people Of the State to decide. and
the first question that will be likely TO
come up at Convention next month is
Shall we elect a Governor for two or four
years If the newspapers indicate the
sentiment Of the people, this side Of the
State would vote to-day to stick by the
old custom Of new Governor every two
years; and we think if they get proper
expression at the Montpelier Convention,
they pill so vote then. Some prominent pa.
pers the west side Of the State also favor
the two-years term, among which we no.
iice the Rutland Herald.
There are good reasons for electinp
Governor for short term which will not
lpply to many other officers, national
county aud town.
From the Bellows Falls Times. h
We were among those who favored Mr..
Billings, not however until we understood
bat Mr.. Converse's name would not be I
PRESENTED, and very soon thereafter Mr.. q
CONVERSE himself caused it to be announc- 4,
ID that he was not candidate. The
question was therefore in the best posi-. f
Ne way of settling itself, wheu-pres- /
o! several Of the press, earliest in the /
ED on the subject and in favor of Mr.. Il
billings, yeer back aud announce Gov. c
tewart as a candidate for reelection Il
What elements have been a work to pro. @
uce this change we know not. Certain u
e are that no such change has come over "
5
The reasons given for the reelection of al
lr. Stewart seem to us onti rely superb Of
al and specious. OF himself we have of 10
purse nOthingto say. His excellen ces "a
gentleman and qualifications for b,
ha'ever position the people may in their h;
me assign hun, need no discussion as
ext October he will have held the of. II
70 OF governor two years, same as all til
IT other governors for more than thirty or
ars. But right here we are met with su
specious argument that out governors sc
retofore have been ''re.elected " and ca
nsequently Gov. Stewart should be re. an
'eted. Is any Que SO jolly green as not an
understand that biennial election mC
nply combines two elections in one2
"hat extraordinary thing has Gov. me
'wart done to entitle him to an extra vic
yearsf Nothing, absolutely nothing dis
ny! Not because he can do nothing ex. vas
ordinary, but simply because there has fro
N nothing extraordinary to do And er
there anything extraordinary abou, din
" Stewart that he should be governor
&C as long as his predecessors, who in. VIII
&c such men as Williams, Royce. Hall rec
others =? me
again, will some of Gov. Stewart's Gu
nds bear in mind that two wears ago N
went to Mr.. Converse and offered to ff'
port his nomination for governor, if he 'oe
:. w. would be content to serve one pun
r, or what was called the remaining mo-
OF Gov. Washburne ? Mr.. Converse iroi
lined any such arrangement, and we 81
refer to it now to show how then Mr.. cree
warts friends couldn't wait but one sl'i'
any way, that one year was long SOU
Ugh Tor Mr. Converse, while no,c the tor
ent governor must have it four years, and
the Lord knows how much longer 2 VIM
70 believe, too, that it WILDE good po- anu
al policy TO establish the one fern for cum
'rnor. There is Cincinnati move. 9
:. One oftheir main planks is one graz
for president. That movement will is g
assume form in this State. Depend VINO
that, no matter how small it NAV una MA.
ar, and let us pursue that course =
calculated to mite Tho ronnh,;oa,,.t : all |