Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-08-21
INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL
CIRCUIT.

CIRCUIT.
AS the General, ON account of his
absence in Washington and his con-
finement at Kirby during his sickness,
has not seen his friends liz this coun-
ty for some months, it may be of in
terest to them to state that we saw
him just before his departure to CAL
edonia Springs, and had an interview
with him from which we give the fol-
| lowing conversation, as embracing
the matters of most interest to our
readers:
GLOW is your health?''
First rate, for an invalid, though
| will not call myself sick, as my
physicians here and at Washington
assure me that there is now. no trace
| of disease about me and that all /
now need is rest. | hope to return
from the Springs as good as new
cit seems your defeat in the con-
vention has not killed you?''
'sNo; and it is not going to either.
Whoever enters the political arena
must be prepared to face any fortune;
and he who cannot brook defeat and
carry himself like a man is not worthy
of victory, which is really the most
trying thing of the two"
"You ought to know, as your ex-
perience in this line is somewhat
checkered."
eyes, my congressional experience.
1t has always been my fortune in this
matter to encounter some Goliah, or,
perhaps, to use more modern char
acterization, some political Jumbo
1t was first Barlow and now it is
Poland; but if in these encounters |
have been able to retain the respect
of friends and those who respect
themselves, ought to be and am
content"
s'Your friends in this county stood
by you WE'LL"
eyes; and I feel under the great
est obligation to them. Nothing in
my political life has given me so
much satisfaction as the fact that the
people of my own town and county
have stood by me, from first to last,
as one man. And whatever fortune,
good or i'll, may hereafter come to
me, [ shall cherish the remembrance
of their confidence in me, as the
pleasantest of my life. My thanks
are due every one of my friends in
this county for their generous and
cordial support
elbow did it happen that the Judge
stole the march on you, when every
one supposed you were sure of the
nomination
''The feeling of security was just
what did it. So confident were all
my friends that no canvass would be
made against me, they left the field
entirely unguarded against the still
hunt which the Judge had been care
fully making for some months. Be-
sides / was sick, unable, had my OPP
ponent made an open and fair can
vass, to have given the matter any
personal attention. Had my friends
been aware of what was going Oh
they doubtless would have looked
j., after my interests. AS it is, / hope
they will not lay a too heavy blame
upon me. Judge Poland's candidacy
was as much surprise to me as i
can have been to them. [ found ou
that he was in the field only just be
fore he announced the fact, at a time
so close to the meeting of the caucus
es that nothing whatever could b,
done. 1t turns out that in man,
large towns there were only a hand
full of men present at the caucuses
So silently had the work been dom
for the Judge that some of my friend
y were thunderstruck at the result. On
who wrote me from Orange count,
when the Poland boom broke out il
his town said: The work in Poland
behalf must have been done wit
more than ordinary secrecy
. ''The question is frequently aske
- hereabouts: is the General going t
get up bolt?'
. "No; I am not. I am gong t
Caledonia Springs to recruit m
: strength. If Judge Poland can stan
his victory, can stand my defeat. "
The General is looking pale an
thin, but appears to be on the roa
to speedy recovery.
y .-
of Our state exchanges are shown
considerable freedom and indepent
ze ence in their criticisms of candidate
for Legislature and county office
of which is a most gratifying indication
In years past the party papers ha'
y supported the regular nomination
with a blind zeal which, althoue
lg perhaps in keeping with party pri
ciples, is far from the true line
8. journalistic duty. We observe
of increasing sentiment in favor of t
W. enforcement of the tax and prohil
S. tory laws, among other things viii
are becoming issues in the prese
ire state canvass, and from this ia
candidates are being examined a
es. discussed as to their soundness
these important local questions, wi
C. such admirable impartiality and Wig
by the press of their own party, tt