Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-07-19
The Second District.

10 show the sentiment OF the people OF
the second congressional district in the mat
ter of their next representative we make the
following liberal extracts from what ap-
pears in the newspapers editorislly and in
letters from the people
FAIR HAVEN ERA: IN the second district will
nominate Judge Poland for congress II will do
service to the state and the country. With Nor
rill, Edmunds, Stewart and Poland in congress,
Vermont will have representation equalled by
no state in the Union"
BosroN Posi-. al Judge Poland should get
into congress again he would be an ornament to
the house, because OF his remarkably clear and
vigorous intellect, says the Rutland Herald As
for ourselves, we do not hesitate TO say that Uncle
Luke would be something more than an orna-
ment He would be big Improvement upon any
congressman now representing Vermont, states
manship considered"
NEWPORT EXPRESS: 1--WE believe General
Grout should be selected now in preference to any
other candidate. He has served his constituents
faithfully has represented his district acceptably
and will make good record II the average ex-
perience which has been given his predecessors
be accorded to him. Is there any good argument
why he should not be re-nominated We have
been able to find none, and we are confident the
convention will so decide"
BELLOWS FALLS TINES "The interest in the
second district convention is increasing and the
expressions OF preference OF opinions are more
freely made. First Is the unanimous expression
that we should nominate our strongest man. one
who would rank up with our representation in
the senate, the necessity for which has so much
increased by the loss Of representation in the
lower house. =. The name which Is most fire.
quently mentioned for representative to congress
Is Hon, Luke P. Poland. This feeling arises Of
course, from his acknowledged ability as an able
legislator and from the strong desire to be rep
resented by our ablest man. The people do not
need to be told who Judge Poland is or that he
circumstances attending his last term in congress,
In this district, he never soured on his duties In
that body, but pressed on and greatly added to
his reputation up to the very closing hours OF his
last term, much to the honor and satisfaction of
his constituents at home.
THE LANDMARK "This district and the state
wants MAN We have had babes and suck
| ling statesmen to shame us long enough, and now
let us put end to this era Of the reign Of chill
dren and strike out boldly for MEN Vermont
has them why not use them Can the cypress
show "any good argument" why they should
not be put into the service Of the state, that the
state so long at the foot Of the ladder may ascend,
| as in the days Of Foot, Collamer, Phelps, Will
lard and Poland, to the front ranks in our nation
atty ? Now that our representation IL to be re-
duced in numbers let us more than make up in
power of intellect what we lose in count. The
| first district has nominated a MAN in the person
of Governor Stewart, the second district can
| match and more than match him in Poland.
Will she do it ? Will she send MAN or continue
the rule of mice under the car-irap eloquerce
| OF trading politicians II the people speak their
honest desires and attend the caucuses in force
they will elect Poland delegates, but II they re-
main at home as is usual and let the politicians
run them, then we shall have two years more OF
| the same craftsmanship we have had since Poland
was retired. Are you proud of the past eight
years Compare the nor with then! MAN is
wanted ~
HERALD AND NEWS: "There is growing and
powerful sentiment among the people of this con-
gressoDal district to send their ablest and strong
| est man to represent them. This is manifesting
itself in all parts of the district. The politicians
and office-holders are not responsible for it, but
as rule are working for the denomination of
| General Grout. This would give the different
ambitious candidates two years in which they
could lay pipe for their nomination. They
are doing what they to block the peoples evil
| dent desire to send strong man now Will they
succeed Not il there is in the district man
who has the ability and character they desire in
| their representative. Ia there in all the district
| a man whom we can send who will take and hold
| a leading position in the house Have we a man
| who has an equal knowledge with General Grout
of the details Of legislation in the house Have
we man who has national reputation as a
statesman Is there man who can give Vermont
| the high position in the house she held when rep
resented by Willard and Poland The mantle OF
| the amented Willard has fallen on worthy sue
cessor, Governor Stewart, but on whom shall Po-
lands mantle fall In the important legislation
| that will come before congress in the next two
years, this state has great interests at stake and
should be represented by men OF more than ordi-
| nary ability, foresight and character. This dis
| trict has few such men, but they are not self
seeking candidates. No man has any claim upon
| the place. No county has the right to name the
| man. No part of the district has any claim. The
people alone have the right to name the man.
Let them attend the caucuses week from Satur-
| day and elect men as delegates who will nominate
the ablest and strongest man. 1t is time to leave
| the dead past behind us and act in the living
present"
THE Randolph Herald and Ne,cs contains the
| following: :" have watched with much interest
| the development OF the campaign in the new
second congressional district In common with
| all observant Vermonters have deplored the de-
cline OF power OF this state in the national house
| of representatives. The state is very far from
| sustaining the reputation for able and brilliant
| craftsmanship gained for it by men like Morrill,,
| Edmunds, Willard and Poland. When reading
of the puerile efforts Of our latter-day congress
men, have involuntarily recalled the time when
| a Poland in an hours speech on the Arkansas
| question before house opposed to him by more
| than two-thirds majority, and led by man of
Ben Buffers indomtabe energy and monu-
mental impudence, by his splendid courage and
| invincible logic vanquished that majority and
won it to his own side; have remembered how
| his presence in any department was the open
viduals having business there to which they had
sought unwillingly official ears in vain; how to
him was committed the responsible task of revis-
| ing the nations laws which through century
| and how this great work, performed alone with
| incredible labor, was accepted by both branches
of congress, solely on the credit which the name
| of the reviser gave to it, These and many other
| instances of the power and influence of our old
| time representative in congress have come up,
| and the question has occurred to me, cannot
restore that golden age of (Vermont) statesman
ship in the house OF representatives and make
| her influence there what 1t has long been in the
| senate? All these reflections have an added sting
| from the fact that the writer sympathized with
| that mad movement which eight years ago re-
| turned to private life the one man who alone by
the force Of his talents and experience in the leg
| islative branch OF our government could have
placed this little state in point of influence above
the populous states OF the union. His words and
| presence made votes In the contests which have
| been waged In that house since Poland was re-
tired. when the voice of Vermont has been silent
many times, like the warriors Of Roderick Dhu in
the stress Of the battle, have been constrained
| to cry:
| where, where, was Roderick them
8 Ws,s blast Ss,t tIG% ,b bis SSsle h horn
Now Mr. Editor believe the second district
can do no less in this emergency than to take up
| Luke p. Poland and send him back to congress-
and believe too that hundreds Of men in this
county and thousands in the district who opposed
him in the unreasonable struggle Of 1874, are
anxious to vote for him and in him be represented
by the ablest and strongest of our men.
STATE PRIDE.
THE Bello,os Falls Times has the following COM
| munication signed Windsor County" The edi-
tor says that the writer did not support Judge
Poland in the last contest for reelection =
| 1.-THE canvass for the nomination of a can
didate for congress by the republicans OF
the second district Of Vermont Is likely to grow
more lively from this time onward New aspi-
| rants for the nomination are daily coming to
light and 1t is now clear that General Grout is
not to have the easy walkover anticipated month
ago. Some of the candidates are so small that 1t
| is no wonder they were not discovered sooner.
| The question for the people Of Vermont to con-
slider is DO they really wish to be represented in
congress by their ablest men Must 1t be that
while our congressional delegation is being re-
duced in numbers 1t shall also deteriorate still
further in quality? The next congress will con-
tain about four hundred members In both houses
Vermont will have four men to represent her in
terests in that body-almost exactly one hun
dredth part OF the whole With only this small
fraction left us 1t is plain as daylight that II our
good old state Is to have any weight whatever In
the national councils hereafter, we must send
there the abest and best men we have. That we
have not often done 30 must be admitted. But
we ought to put an end TO that folly now. When
with average ability In her representatives Yer
mont has only one chance In hundred to be heard
on the floor OF congress, 1t becomes her people
to place there men whose abilities and character
will command attention and respect In this con-
nection 1t seems remarkable that the superior fit
ness OF Judge Poland TO worthily represent the
second district should have been so generally
| overlooked, The state has in this generation
hardly had representative as prominent in legis-
lation or whose congressional career was more
distinguished or honorable than his. And with
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