St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-05-29
The Governor Question.


and that Il great many of our best men
feel that it is the largest question i'll
volved in the politics of the State, and
desire to form prohibition party. based
OH the policy of our present liquor law,
as its foundation. We always have Il. d
still do oppose such Il scheme on account
of its dcmoralizing tendencies upon the
only party that can ever he relied upon
us friendly to the Temperance cause. We
can, however, so purify our own party
that all classes of Christian gentlemen
can associate with us, and we feel it to
he the duty of the Republican party OF
Vermont to put in nomination il ticket,
every name of which shall appeal for
support to the people who are engaged
in the good work. The prohibitory law
is specially cOniidcd to the executive
care of the Governor. His power to
pardon convicted rum-SelleIS M ght par
llyZe the execution of the law. and
greatly rctard the progress of the reform
itself, so that the people should SEE To it
that the Governor is i'll hearty sympathy
with the people in their war on the
liquor traffic. We want for Governor Il
man who not only desires to see the law
of life are beyond reproach. We are
aware this will exclude some candidates
that are being pressed from some sec
tions of the State {: but there should he
no reserve III speaking out and having it
known that the man who gets drunk OF
exerts his influence ill favor Of other
people getting drunk. is unfit for Gov
ernor of Vermont. Temperance people
act from convictions of duty, and while
they should never bolt party nominal
lions. we believe the time is past for
them to talk temperance and vote for
rum. while they can control nominations
and the primaries. -RuiIond HerdIH.
The people have watched and waited
for some commanding name, some char
acter that towers high above all the old
influences and all the new candidates.
brfole whom every vain ambition must
go down and around whom the Seething
forces of a purified public sentiment
could crystalline into Il conservative and
enduring policy. We think We have
found such an one i'll the Hon. Asahrl
Peck, Judge of the Supreme Court t..
and practical farmer i'll the town of
Jericho. SO mobserved has his name
risen into prominence as ii candidate
that no man can tell who first proposed
it nor where it WAS done. Indeed. We
heard it mentioned almost simIIltauc-
ously in different parts of the State,
and WnIIe he was ana L. to-day on his
quiet farm among the hills. sowing seed
and Eliminating law. an indigenous and
more rapid growth is ripening for him
outside and he will come to the harvest.
not like one who has his sickle sharp
and his granary prepared. but rather
like one who is called 10y the people to
Il field that he thought not of.
Among the most gratifying and au-
Spicious omenS of his success is the fact
that leading candidates Immediately
approve his nomination and lay their
influence at his feet. while all the little
aspirantS are left so far behind us not
to be named again. \ month ago it
was presumed that the party had Il
triangular fight on its hands, between
Mr.. Barlow, Mr.. Park and Mr.. Taft
Mr.. Park, it was supposed, would he
the railroad candidate, and with or
without that support he would have
been a very strong one. Mr.. Barlow.
though not Indifferent to the honor of
cared much less for that than for de
veloping il political movement that
should inaugurate Il new order of things
in the party. and he determined to per
init the use of his name until this desire
should he realized or until another
would unite more forces to the same
end. Mr.. Taft, being GOV
ernor. and located tavorably for the ro-
tation. had many reasons for thinking
that he could draw from both parties,
and accordingly Event in on his muscle. =
joining the grangers, appealing to the
young men and leaving no stone uI-
turned that might show up n nest of
influence OF open Il lead that he could
follow. He did this frankly and good
naturally, and though the people, out
side of rings both small and great, are
not going to rally to his support, vet
they will all be willing to vote. no
doubt, that he is a good and clever
fellow.
But things have changed. Mr.. Park.
tired of his short connection with Il
railroad management whose sole policy
is to escape with plumber and mean
while eat up all that it car. lay its hands
uDoH- ltlllt' HUH IL liSi 1T tllt very
moment when he might, if selfish enough
to do so, have used it for his ambition ::
and when this event TRANSFERRED, and the
men whom Mr. Park had befriended in
their distress a year ago and to whom
he extended every advantage on his
retirement, suddenly developed ii char
acteristic ingratitude and became his
enemies and his traducers. thereby
making it clear that if he became ii
candidate at all he would not he the
railroad candidate, then Mr.. Barlow felt
that there was less necessity than there
had been for opposing himself and his
supporters to what he had regarded as
a strong combination, and the result
was that when Judge Peck's name
sprang out from the people, almost sim
manded the unhesitating support of
both of these men and all their friends,
so it is safe to infer that neither of them
will be candidate.
If he is nominated we predict that it
will not be as railroad candidate. nor
an anti-railrOad candidate. not as IL
Judge nor as farmer, but as a pure.
honest, higll-toned man of the people,
whose spotless character, perfect famil-
iarity with our laws, untlnching courage
and his pre-eminent regard for those
''fupdamental principles" spoken of in
the Bill of Rights; justice, moderation,
temperance, industry and frugality,"
mark him as the man of men whom
every honest and patriotic citizen will
delight to suppOrt.-St. Adams Messen-
ger.
Every one seems to be making sug-
gestiOns about VIII shall be our next
Governor A farmers newspaper, ed