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


The Springfield RepuJican bas been so far
imposed upon by somebody that IT prints the
following absurd statement
The EImunds boom has struck Vermont. This Is
not so paradoxica as it may seem. for IN state oi
that size there are local jealOuscs which lead GER
tain Journals To view with not altogether conpa-
surprise the suggestion OF one OF the senators
of the State for the Presidency.
The Republican is grossly mistaken; there
never have been any local jcalousies' in
Vermont concerning Senator Edmunds;
there are none to-day; Senator Edmunds
throughout lis long political career has
escaped through his prc-emincnt ability
and his cool temper all opposition from 10
cal jealousics Within two years after his
admission to the bar he was in the front rank
of his profession; and all his political honors
from youth up have been pressed upon him
by his town and State When first sent TO
the Legislature he had no competitor; and
his subsequent career has been marked by
the same absence of all opposition to his pre-
ferment His elections TO the United States
Senate have been obtained without Repub.
lican vote against him in the Legislature and
without word of opposition from the press
of the State. save the ST. Johnsbury CdIe-
DOMAIN, an independent" Republican pa
per of the Springfield Republican theory
and practice. which was antl-Ed-
munds in 1874 and is anti-Grant to-day, and
the late Rutland Globe, another so-called IN
dependent newspaper This is the only
local jealousy" of Senator Edmunds that
has ever cropped out of the Vermont press,
and we believe even the CdledOHfdn is for
Edmunds to-day, 50 that the press of the
State is primarily unit for Edmunds,
should the time yer come when his candl-
dacy takes any less remote and substantial
shape than at present. and until 1t does DIS
Greet regard for Senator Edmunds naturally
suggests becoming moderation OF action and
speech in this matter. State pride. all the
highest as well as the mere practical consid-
erations that animate politics, makes it a
matter of positive assurance that Vermont is
to-day, as she has ever been, a unit for Sen
ator Edmunds, ana because the State press,
in view of tie not improbable event of the
Convention going elsewhere than Vermont
for the candidate have entertained and
expressed variety of preference for
Grant, Blaine and Wasliburne, it is
simply absurd for the Rtpublicdn to
twist this fact into an expression of local
jealousy of our able Senator. His career
has been entirely free from this sort OF hos
tility thus far; he docs not encounterit now,
and while the press Of the State naturally
and properly discuss the situation with refer
ence To other eminent men who are likely 10
be put in nomination., none of oar State
papers have any preferences that they are not
ready TO promptly surrender in favor of Sen
ator Edmunds, but we are none OF us silly
enough to suppose that in order to make
Senator Edmunds President, it is only nee
essary for little Vermont to throw her hat
into the ring and ilauntingly run up her
coors. This sort of behavior may crafty
the vanity of certain sort of blatant politi-
clans. but it is not the sort Of conduct that
commands Senator Edmunds's approval; it
is, in fact, just what that gentleman would
be glad 10 see carefully avoided. Senator
Edmunds has some ncwly-born friends that
must lool, as appalling 10 him as III Irish
famine.