Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-04-04
The Governorship and Political
Matters.

Editor Rutland Herald You ar
not alone in your surprise in seeing tn,
article from the Middlebury Register
which you copy into your columns ot
March 29th. That it is the stranges
electiOneering political document ye
published In Vermont Is emphatically
true, and as the Register Is known to bt
the home organ of Gov. Stewart, il
seems to me, it places him, in severa
very unfavorable attitudes before the
psOple-attitudes which are unbecoming
and unfortunate for the chief magistrate
of our State to occupy. 1t would do foi
Tammany candidate, in the palmy
days of Tammany Hall, but it will not
answer for the Republican atmosphere
| of Vermont.
The Register calls for responses to itf
article, from the people, and says its
columns will be open for such. If your
editorial can find place there, and pos
sibly, what | prefer to say directly to
you, think its readers will be enlight-
ened to some extent.
propose to review the Registers ar
ticle briefly. 1t says, "it is rather earli
er than usual" to discuss the question.
1t is not so, The subject of the next
governor has already been largely dis
cussed by the people and has found its
way to the press in various localities.
1t says that Gov. Stewart ''may be re-
elected if he wishes it." Not so Mr.
Register. We do not conCede that Gov.
Stewart has lease of the governorship
for two years more, which he may or
may not surrender as he wishes 1t
would be quite as becoming and modest
to put it in this way, Gov. Stewart may
be reelected if he desires a denomination
and the people desire to renOminate
him. This is as strong as the facts viii
Vermont will bear. I should be sorry
to see the Vermont public in a position
where they were forced to acknowledge
that any particular candidate could be
nominated IF he wanted to be. Two
years has been the rule of office in the
executive Chair-and this Gov Stewart
will have. If the people, under the new
tenure of Office, want to extend it to
.f0ur years, they will nominate Mr..
Stewart next fall If they rant him for a
Candidate-not because he rants it, l
hope and believe.
Is Gov. Stewart so strong that before
any other names are even discussed, for
governor, it must be settled first whether
he wants to be renominated? Must
every other man step aside and close the
mouths of his friends until he shall be
heard to say 4 want it, " or L do not
want it.
Why take it for granted" that Gov.
Stewart is to serve the people in some
official capacity or other? He has made
a good governor, a good representative.
a good senator but he is not the only
man living in the State who has done
Just as good service. | can count good
by scores, and may say
who have just as good a rec
ord, and just as great capabilities! Why,
then, the people lciU ask, the people do
ask, must he be chosen either to the posi-
ton of governor or representative in
Congress? If we have three represen-
tatives in Congress, the congressional
districts will, in all probability, remain
as they now are and if the people think
that Governor Stewart has served the
allotted time" and are willing that he
should retire from the executive chair,
we cannot therefore see that a congress
sional seat must be thrust under him.
As we recollect, Addison county has
had several congressional terms since
Rutland or Bennington county has.
county more terms still in
the person of able representatives. Rut-
land county has claims and candidates
whose names cannot be ignored. Ben
ningtOn county has men whose names
would be@a tower of strength, both in
the State and ont of it and take it that
Illt) ou8hI 10 nave SolltIIlIhS Io say,
and will, at the proper time, say it. At
any rate. Mr.. Editor, you are not more
than we of the people are, to
hear that the Middlebury Register-the
home organ of the excellent governor
las thus given public notice that the
office of Governor and member of Con- |
gress are thus mortgaged, and can only
De satisfied by a foreclosure of either the
)ne claim or the other. -
March 90, 1872