Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-06-15
sgTOO OLD AND A BACHELOR. ,

Since Judge Peck has become prom
inent candidate for governor, several
newspapers have discovered the fact that
he is incapacitated for the position Ion
account of age, and is also an unmar-
ried man, having never chosen to make
himself happy or miserable, as the case
might be, by taking wife. These are
two serious charges but since the leg
islature in 1872 ran the risk of select
ing Judge Peck, and since he has dis
charged the responsible and arduous la
bors of the Office ofjudge to the satisfac-
ton of all, it may not hazard the well
fare of the State, if he be allowed to adj
minister its affairs for the next two years
as Chief Executive. We do not know
Just where the law or the custom is in
vogue, that lays man upon the shelf
when he reaches the age of sixty-fve or
seventy, if he is healthy and not do
tard. Age, experience and wisdom have
been thought to be valuable in fitting
men for certain positions in life; if they
are not so in this modern age let those
who have made the discovery rise and
explain. AS to the charge of being a
bachelor, We suppose the Judge is gull
ty, and will have to bear all the blame
that arises from this fact. There are
many, doubtless, who will be disposed
to be lenient with the poor member of
the Bench, when they remember that he
was born, reared and educated a law
yer, and has ever felt that difidence and
aversion toward women, that is expert
enced by most members of the bar. On
account of the enormity of the crimes
of being old and being unmarried, the
opponents of Judge Peck have seen fit
to bring no other charges against him
and if the voters of Vermont can over
look these two things, they can elect a
man of great ability, sterling honor, ripe
experience and becoming dignity. But
there is another chapter in the tale, and
if that were fully read, the fact would
be revealed that there are large num-
Der of young and aspiring politicians,
who are laundering after the honors Of
office, and who desire to establish an
opinion among the masses, that only
those of the younger, if not of the 'basel
sort, are fit for the places that are nov
only opening up once in two years il
the State, and once in from four to six
or more In the congressional line. As tho
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Taft of Burlington, is being put forward
as a candidate for governor Governor
Taft has the reputation of being ''gooc
Teller, is fair lawyer, and has had ex
perlence in both branches of the legisla
ture. He is acknowledgement, anC
presides over the senate with dignity
and ease. He could do the Office of gov
ernor handsomely-for he knows how i
Is done. But if it is desirable to pu
into the governors seat a man that will
grace the chair in high and nobl
sense, 1t can be better done than by put
ting Mr.. Taft in that place. 1t nigh
answer for boys, or even the high buck
OF colleges. to smash glasses and spill
whlskey about the rooms and Offices
hotels, but it looks bad when lieutenan
governors and their legislative compar
ions, (much to the annoyance of tn
Christian members of the lower house
spend a night in doing these things, an
III racing about through the halls al
up and down the stairs of quiet Mon
pelier hotel in their shirt tails. Tn
is carrying the matter a little too ia
and there are those in the State tn
think such proceedings undigni6ed al
unbecoming in those who seek, as W,
as those who hold, the honored positio
in the State.
The idea that is now being advance
IN certain quarters, in connection wi
this contest, that young men only shou
hold offices, and a young mems pal
should be formed, is much like that
iitical theory, that only Americ:
should rule America, and would amor
to just about the same in the end. WI
we undertake to say that we will OIL
select our candidates for Office out of
particular class, age, profession or oct
patton, we have undertaken more I'll
we can accomplish. If there is one m
better fitted on account of expericl
and moral ard intellectual qualities,
an Office than another, that man shol
be appointed to the Office, and the asI
ing politicians who are suffering for 2
ferment, should be allowed to suffer
until they have qualified and fitted the
selves for the positions they seek /;
have proved themselves worthy of
trust that,they would have imposed
them.
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Neighbor Earle, of the Morrisv
Citizen. compliments, after his pecu
style, one Of our citizens and names
for Lieut. Governor. We would be g
70 do a citizen such fayors as we