Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-02-20
from the st. Adams Messenger
vermont COngressmen and the PresI-



Vermont gentleman who has Just return
ed from Washington informs us that he con-
versed with our senators and representatives
in regard to the presidency and found them
all of the opinion that it is the highest duty
of the Chicago convention to nominate a man
upon whom the party, especially in the
doubtful states, will unite Senator Morrill,
and the representatives think that should the
fortunes of politics turn in favor of the nomi-
nation of Senator Edmunds there is no other
man in the country for whom all classes of
republicans would more cheerfully vote
They are rejoiced that sentiment in Vermont
has taken such definite form for him, and
two of them expressed regret that any Of the
Vermont papers, while favoring him, should
at the same time speak of his nomination as
though they believed it impossible. That is
not the way, they think, to serve friend in
terests or those of the public, and especially
when that friend is of such prominent fit
ness and availability. Such an attitude, they
think, is accountable for on no other hypoth-
esis than a depreciation of either our cand-
date or our state or such prediction for
another that they hardly desire to see him
subordinated to their own friend They
think that there are many reasons why SEN
ator Edmunds may be considered the most
available of the dark horses" when the time
comes, and that certainly, if any portion of
the people want him, there is abundant rea-
son why they may work for him with enthu-
siasm and hope.
Senator Edmunds himself said that he was
in daily receipt of letters from all over the
country urging him TO be n candidate and
profTeriug support, but he replies that he is
not a candidate and will not lift finger to
become one. Speaking of the movement in
Vermont, he said he was not Indifferent to
the high honor Of the support Of those who
know him best and especially because it is so
spontaneous, unsought and unexpected But
while approaching the compliment, he knew
Vermont Republicans so well that he felt en-
tire confidence in their willingness to do
whatever they could to secure harmony and
success at the convention and at the polls
regardless of their own personal wishes, and
he hoped they would bear in mind that il is
far more important to every state and section
that the party should win than it is that any
man, state or section should bear off the
honor
OF course this position is what might have
been expected from Senator Edmunds. and
this doctrine is applicable to all states and
sections, and especially to those which have
been so grasping in the past. Senator Ed
munds is a man of such nationality of views,
a constitutional lawyer and statesman of such
breadth of character, that he knows no state
and no section. The advice which he sends
to the Nermonters We commend to others.
New York and Pennsylvania have no right to
control the nomination because they are
pivotal states" an d the West has no right to
the exclusive ownership of the presidency be-
cause it is u vast and growing section. can
didate must be selected who can unite the
party in the close states. who can inspire con-
fidence that he will, if elected, administer the
government according to law, who has knowl-
edge of rights and courage to maintain them,
who stands so well that with him the party
would not be put on the defensive, and whose
candidacy would give such assurance to the
country of strength, good faith, peace and
national dignity, that good citizens every
where would spring to its support. Those of
us who believe that no other man in the coun-
try so completely fills the measure of these
requirements as Senator Edmunds, should do
what in us lies to persuade Republicans in
other parts of the country to see as we see.