St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-08-04
Judge Poland.
WHAT THE PRESS SAYS.

has done its whole duty by the State
by sending its best man, measured by
his public talents and long experience.
Judge Poland will 90 back to the field
with which he is so familiar, in which
he won so much honor, and from which
he was so uniustly driven, amid the
congratulations of all men of both par
ties, who like to see Vermont repre-
scented in Congress by stalwarts in
mind and body Rutland Herald.
Shake, Uncle Luke! 1t was an easy
victory at Montpelier yesterday, and
the first ballot determined the fact that
Judge Luke p. Poland of st. Johnsbury
will represent the ID Vermont district
in Congress if he lives. He had l9l
votes, or "a more than were necessary
to IA choice, to I25 for Congressman
Grout and Is scattering. An able
young man to grow would have been
the thing, but the district has bettered
itself in ability.-[SpIingfield Republi-
can.
With his long experience and rare
qualifications, Judge Poland VIII prove
il valuable acquisition to the represen
tatiOn of New England in the House.
Gen. Grout, who was defeated, has
shown during the present session that
he possesses the qualities which would
have made him valuable Representa-
tive had he been called to serve longer
in that capacity Boston Journal.
The wisdom offhe nomination made
at Montpelier on Wednesday depends
on the state of feeling in the district.
No one questions Judge Poland's abil-
ity to represent the district and the
State, in Cong ess, as he has done be-
fore, with high dignity, capacity and
influence and no one can forget that
eight years ago, in district largely
included in the present Second district,
Judge Poland secured a nomination !;
but failed of an election. The present
nomination was made by fair MAORI
ty of the convention and by vote
which would have given Judge Poland
IA majority of one in a full convention.
If, as we trust may be the case, the
former opponents of Judge Poland are
now willing-as he declares himself to
be-tO let bygones be bygones, and
will cheerfully acquiesce in the will of
the majority, as indicated in the con-
ventiOn, it will all be WE'LL Burling-
ton Free Press.
The nomination of Luke p. Poland
was simply the righting of Il great
wrong by the people. 1t was defeat
by the awakened masses of Il junto of
politicians whose sympathieS or active
efforts were enlisted to perpetuate in
the new Second district a regency of
mediocrity under Grout and ultimately
transfer its sovereignty to other wait
ing aspirants. 1t was a clear case of
the people against the politicians, their
allies and camp-follOwers, and the
plaintiffs have won verdict which
will he triumphantly reatfirmed by the
court of last resort i'll September
Montpelier Waterman.
The nomination of Judge Poland will
not only be received with much favor
in the State, but in the country, and
will give us a representation in the
House worthy of the days of Collamer,
Foot and Phelps. - Bellows Falls
Times.
The most potent factor in Judge
Poland'S success was his possession of
an uncommon lot of brains and gem
eral knowledge of this fact. :
1t is dine to Judge Poland to say that
his nomination is, on the whole, as
fairly due to the fact that the people
wanted him i'll preference to anybody
else, as is the case in the great MAORI
ty of political conventions. And in
deed a part of the support which Gen.
GrOut received came not because men
preferred him to Judge Poland, but be-
cause they thought that his service OF
one term having been well performed,
although his old district was broken
mp, a failure to re-elect him would be
taken as an unmerited rebuke.- Mont
pelier Freeman.
We can't help complimenting ouI
Republican friends on the good sense
they have displayed in deciding to
send Luke P. Poland back to Congress
There are defects in Judge Poland's
makeup as in all of poor humanity
and they are defects which mar the
symmetry of a very great man. But
counting them all, he is still a bigger
man by all odds, and has more capac-
ity for useful public service, than any
competitor that was even named for a
candidate. His record when he was il
Congress, though it had some blemish-
es, was on the whole one to be proud
of. Judge Poland Is self-made man
he has pushed his way up in the world
without the tineries and furbelOws OF
college learning, but by the force OF
his vigorous manhood and the big
brain that he carries on his shoulder
BrattleborO RefOrmer.
We make no attempt to conceal on
own belief that a wiser choice would
have been that of some one of the
young and able men of the district
who would thus have been put i'll train
ing for public career which at no dis
tant day must come to some of them
This consideration, however, does moi
obscure the fact that, in the eyes o.
the country at large, the return o.
Judge Poland to Congress will give
Vermont large degree of prominence
in matters of national legislation
BrattleborO Phenix-anti-POla
EN-pOstmaster General D. NJ Key