The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-07
a LAST WORD.

Dut TOUR days, not including sunday.
remain before the convention assemblies
which is to decide who is to represent the
first district of Vermont in the forty-fourth
Congress of the United States. In the In
term many primary meetings are to be
holden and as our large weekly edition is
issued to-day, giving us the last opportun-
ity of reaching many OF the voters of the
district before the convention, we propose,
at the risk of some repetition, to review the
congressional contest, and state anew some
OF the grounds on which we base the
claims of Colonel Joyce. In doing SO, we
shall neither attack OF dsparage the claims
oil MIR. Willard any f"",i... ......, "
necessary to fully and fairly present the
other side. We believe him to be an honest
man, of ordinary talents and abilities and
to have passed through two terms and part
OF another in Congress without soling his
hands with any jobs. lie will leave Con-
gress as pure and uncontaminated as when
he entered it. So far as he is concerned
we need say nothing further, as we believe
that his character, abilities and services
were correctly portrayed in the communi-
cation published Thursday. Although we
may refer to it again, we may say here
that while Mr.. Willard is described by our
correspondent as negative man, Colonel
Joyce is positive man and we need posi-
tive go-ahead men in Congress. Had the
Colonel been in Congress, the last session,
the Infamous "gag-law" would never have
passed. He would not have taken any
ones say so for its being ''all right" but
would have examined it for himself as
effccting the interests of his constituents
as well as the people of the whole country.
Neither would he have come home as did
another distinguished member of Congress,
and have stultifed himself by saying-to
meet storm of popular ignaton-that
the law did not mean what its very words
declared it to be-
First, then, we claim that Charles II.
Joyce should be nominated and elected
member of Congress, in the place of Charles
w. Willard, because he is, in every respect,
qualified for the position. In point of real
abilities and qualifications, we assert that
he is superior TO Mr.. Willard certainly
better qualified than Mr.. Willard was when
he first took his seat in Congress. Al
though selt-educated and that is all the
more credit to him, Notwithstanding the
sneers of the Republican,, and other papers
OF that ilk, about his being "poor boy
he has been hard student all his life. mas
tering every subject that he undertook.
Having studied law and been admitted &c
the bar, he was, at an early age, electc
states attorney of Washington county al
day, too, when it meant something to b,
states attorney. The Washington count,
bar contained giants in those days, he wa
often compelled to meet and wrestle will
them single handed and alone. There wer
Paul Dillingham;, Homer w. Heaton, Stod
dard b. Colby and many others, some liy
ing, others who have long since fnishe
their earthly career 1t was no small tri
butte to the talents, abilities and characte
OF young man of twenty-five, and tina
was his age, to call on him to meet sue
men before courts and jures. Nethe
should it be forgotten that he was chose
as the successor of that able lawyer an
pure-minded man i. f. Merrill. 1t is q
record that he was equal to the task AN
justified the choice of his constituent.
This, be it understood, was twenty yeal
ago and if he was then able to cope wit
such men, what, with constant study eye
since, must he his rank to-day We kno'
what he is in Rutland county, and W
opne that he is not unknown in Bennina
ton and Addison counties. We but stat
an admitted fact when we say, that he
recognized, both by his brother attornie,
the bench and the people, as one of tn
eaders of the bar In fact, there is hardl
an important disputable case in our courts
but that he is the attorney for the one sid
or the other. Certainly, SO far as leg
ability and the knowledge of law is co,
cerned, Colonel Joyce is far above Nj
Willard. And is this of no importance
For what does Congress convene, annua
lyY Is it for any other purpose, in IL
main, than to make laws This being S,
which is the proper man to represent us