The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-17

| tnc COunty hnu fct IL SOte iui'nei thon
We do, and endorses tho whole ticket al
most in our very language. But 1t says
that the south part of the county is not
fully represented, that the south part OF the
county Is never fully represented. 1t sees
a persistent effort TO snub that part OF the
county. We have heard of this locality
complaint before. 1t Is not new com
| plant. 1t ia almost as old rs the county
itself. Fret it is the Fair Haven probate
district that is snubbed. Then 1t is the
south part of the county. Then it is both.
And then again, Rutland is the sinner, car
ryingsoff theIon's share of the spoils.
Let Us examine this chronic COM
plant, and see what there is of it.
And first, does the south part OF the
county obtain its proportionate share
of the offices By the south part
OF the county, the Journal says that
it means the towns of Poultney, Clsren.
| don, Ira, Shrewsbury, Wells, Middetown,
Tinmoulh Wallingford, Mt. Holly, Mt.
Tabor, Dandy and Pawlet. The remain
northern parts of the county. The popu-
lation of the towns named, according to
the census of 1870, is II 316 while that of
the remaining portions of the county is
2G 215, or about two inhabitants in the
central and northern portions of the
county TO one IN the southern. The coun-
ty. as now constituted, has had fifty-six
senators, serving in the aggregate one hun
bred and eight yeats, Of these, the south
etn part of the county has haG nineteen
senators and thirty-seven years of service !;
and the remainder of the county, thirty
seven senators and seventy-one years Of
service--ss nearly an equal, proportionate
distribution according both to grand list
and population as is possible to be made.
But taking the line of division suggested
by the J0urual, before it mentions indi-
vidual townsville south line Of the town of
Rulland--and the addition of seven sena-
a;ors and twelve years of service should be
made to the southern portion of the coun-
~ from Fair Haven and West Haven,
!
If the whole number of Senators much
more than their proportonate number.
There have been iifly-cne judges of the
county court, serving two hundred and
twelve years. OF these, twenty four
Judges, serving one hundred and sixteen
years, have been taken from the south par,
Of the county-adopting the Journals di.
vision--whie twenty-seven judges serving
ninety-slx years, have been taken from the
other towns. If there is to be any com.
plant about geographical distribution,
where is the complaint, in this case, to
: come fromY
at the county seat-in this coun-
, y, at Rutland--but Rutland has furnished
sheriff only three yeara, while eight sher'
, ifs, serving fifty -one years, have been TAX
IN from the southern part of the county
: md, including those from Rutland, eight
sheriffs, with forty-four years Of service,
from the northern towns Where is the
t complaint this time =?
: Let us look at Judges of probate. In tht
S Rutland probate district, there have beer
sixteen judges of probate serving ninety
d five years. OF these six judges, with fifty
l. six years Of service, have come from th,
towns sopth of Rutland ten judges-sevel
different mcn-With thirty-nine years o
service, trcm Rutland and the towns north
. Please complain again.
8 In the Far Haven probate district, Their
have been twelve Judges serving eighty
eight years. The southern towns hsv
2 furnished six judges and sixty-two years o
. service, and the northern towns six judges
3 serving twenty six years. We have LOCATED
4 Judge Warner, who was n resident o
Poultney when elected, in the south, an
2 Judge Bromley In the north, although,
: we remember correctly, he was appointed
from Pawlet. Can't we have little NOR
2 complaining!
i The county of Rutland is divided int
. two probate districts-the towns OF Ca'
j Teton, Poultpey, Fair Haven, West Haver
i Benson, Hub6ardton, Sudbury, Wells an
Pawlet constituting the Fair Haven dit
. trict and the remaining towns, the Rui
g land district. The population of the latte
3 10 ~ 2l2, and of former l3,439. TIL
. Fair Haven probate district has furnishe
g twcnty-one senators, serving thirty min
= years, while the Rutland district has ha
= thirty five senators and sixiy-nine years {
L service. So that if there is any ground fC
complaint as between the districts, it is o
. the part of the Rutland district.
= We apprehend that the ground OF con
g plant is that senator, this year, was e.
? lected from each Of the towns of Rutlant
i Castleton, Pittsford and Pi,tsfed, and M
. from poutney. Let us see if this was Ill
fair.
co Rutland has about one-fourth of the POI
.r uiatlon and grand list of the county, b,
has had only eleven senstors-one-fifth
. the number-and twenty-five years, or lie
~ than one.llfth of the service.
The population of Castleton is on
90 furnished only three senators-one-nin
ar teenth Of the cumberland six years
he one-eighteenth OF the service.
q The population of Plttstord is one-nin
~ teepth of that of the county, and she h
II furnished three senators serving six year
al or just her proportion of senators and
%, trfle under her proportion of years of Sc
vice. Pttsficld has never furnished Sc
atOr.
cd How is it with PoutneyS Her popul
of ton is one-tifteenth of the county, and 81
n" has had seven senators, serving nine yea
n that is to say, she has had fourteen