Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-02-20

y VERMONT GI NILEAAS- VINO El3 Just FtlufEeu
from Washington. informs US that he coayerset
with Senators and representatives in regard TO
the Presidency and found them all of the opinion
that Is the highest duty OF the Chicago convention
| 10 nominate man upon whom the party, especial-
y In tue doubtful States. VIII unite Senator Nor
ri and the representatives, think that should the
fortunes Of politics turn in favcF OF the nomination
OF Senator Edinnnds there Is no other man IN the
country for whom AL classes of Republicans would
more cheerfuly vote. They are rejoiced that
sentiment in vermont has taken such definite form
fOT him. and two of them expressed regret tla any
OF the Vermont papers, while fayorng him, should
at the same time speak Of his nomination As though
they believed II Impossible. Such an attitude they
think, is accountable for on no other hypothesis
than depreciation of either our candidate or our
State, or such prelectiOn for another that they
hardly desire To see him subOrdinated to their own
| friend. They think that there are many reasons
why senator Edmunds may be considered the most
available of the dark horses when the time comes,
and fnai certainly. any portion of the people want
him. there is abun'lIn reason why they may work
for him with Enthusiasm and hope.-St. AtbdnS
/ Messenger.
| The gentleman alluded TO We suspect to
bca former editor of the Rutland UtrdH,
which paper is doubtless one of the papers
alluded to. 1t is perhaps only human ma
turc that the cx-editor should lie disposed TO
look rather critically cr Tie editorial course
of his successor. In this matter we think
that he and the Washington gentlemen (who
may possibly have looked at things to some
ex,cn; though lis eyes, if their frame of
mind is correctly reported above DO not
do justice TO the editor of the Herald lie is
well-known to be one of Mr.. Edmunds'S
warmcst friends, and We doubt not would
be better pleased 10 see Mr.. Edn:unds
President than any other man that could be
| ;,It I,as bn III
cd, in any way, the sending to Chicago Of
an EdmunGs delegation, of the strongest
kind. lie states his position with sufficient
distinctncss, in some comments in a Rutland
letter 10 the New York Tribune, az follows:
1t is not true that the Herald at any time
misrcpresrnied the position of Senator Ed
munds in the matter Of his candidacy. In 4
letter, dated Feb ith. Senator Edmunds
SAYS thGt the course of the X1dN, in re-
lation TO his candidacy. has been entirely
| satisfactory to me fer number of reasons,
and among others, because invariably have
answered all letters on the subject, that, I'M
der no circumstances | could conceive of rs
/ possible would | accep. nomination" In
face Of this fact nope in all fairness we
shall hear no more about the HerdM having
misreprt Sentcl the desire and feelings of
Senator Elmun,ls or those of his intimate
personal and political friends, who under
stand perfectly well that any delegation Of
| Vermont representative men. selected from
the ranks of the stalwart Republicans would
/ be sure to be an Edmunds delegation.
! The correspondent of the Tribaae simply
rc-statcs what the Herald has always said,
VIXEN he says: When asked AS to the
chances Of running an Edmunds boom
/ here, Judge Dorr and other Republicans
ansv cred at once that there was no need;
| it would run itself
| BY reference to the able article we copy
| from the Burlington FREE Press to-day, it
will be seen that the FREE Press stands just
where the HeraM does. 1t would heartily
welcome the nomination of EdmundS but it
sees plainly that it is by no means impossible
| that Vermont may be called upon by the
| force Of circumstances to choose some other
| standard bearer than her own Senator. IN
that event we all have divided preference,
and there is no Inconsistency between being
| primarily an EdmundS man and an expires
| sion of preference, in the event of the con-
| test narrowing down 10 a struggle in which
there would he no hope for Mr.. EdmundS,
and in which Vermont would naturally have
choice and would he bound in duty TO the
nation and the party to express it. In this
sense, and IN ihIS sense only, are the Dur
/ lington FREE PREss and Rutland Herald
are primarily for Edmunds and sccondarily
| for Grant.
J This fairly represents the position of the
/ papers named The FREE Press. Us our read
ers know, ly no means considers the noini-
nation OF Mr. tlmunds to he impossible" "
Ii is quite within the range of possibility
and grows more rather than less 50 every
find that it can agree on some man out of the
present list of leading candidates more cor
daily than on amy one Of those candidates
| I'm sach Il CASE, Mr.. EdmunGs would, we
think, corie very strongly 10 the front in
: the convention.