Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-08-21
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Tying TO any canuluaIe- a OTTER.
A FEW PLAIN WORDS.
Mr.. EDITOR The venomouS editorial
in which the Wdtchman celebrates Judge
Poland's nomination, besides other Ian
guage extremely offensive to the support
ers of Gen. circuit, contained the follow
ing: SIT was defeat by the awakened
masses Of junto of politicians whose
sympathies, or active efforts, were enlist
ed to perpetuate in the new Second Dis
trict, regency of mediocrity under Gen.
circuit, and ultimately transfer it's sover-
eighty to other waiting aspirants.
Grout, as a candidate, takes this abuse,
/ suppose, as a matter of course. But
has it occurred to B. F. Fifleld, W. P.
Dillingham;, Roswell Farnham, J. L. Mar
tin, E. L. Waterman and Col. Hooker
that this is a thrust at them-every one
of them-as well as at Grout? What is
it to be perpetuated and transferred to
"waiting aspirants," the Waterman says,
"a regency of mediocrity?" Perhaps the
friends of the unsuccessful candidate, and
Of the gentlemen above named, who have
all been named for Congressman, relish
that kind of a compliment. They will
probably answer by their votes in Sep
TENDER. 1t is worthy of observation that
the editorial does not impute to Gen.
Grout purpose to hold on to his regen-
cy unreasonably, but implies that he ex
poets the office to go to other gentlemen
in the District, according to accepted
principles of rotation. 1t is also observ-
ed that the WyatchnldR does not tell US
how long a tenure the Poland party ex-
pect for their chief. Not at all. But it
celebrates victory over ''waiting aspi-
rants, no less than over Grout which of
course includes every gentleman in the
District who has an honorable ambition
to represent his district in Congress.
The Judge himself says his term of SER
vice will "not be very long" How long
is mot very long?" for he is ''fast becom-
ing an old man," and yet in the same
breath says ''his eye is not dim," and it
never will be, although he has already
worn spectacles for quarter of centu-
ry. ''Not very long," and yet he betrays
his purpose to hold on indefinitely by tell
ing the convention eff he should hold on
after his usefulness is over the remedy is
| in their hands," No one can read his
| speech of acceptance and not discover at
once that the vision of life tenure fills
with satisfaction the old mans mind, and
as the victory, according to the Watch
man, sets aside circuit and all 'swaiting
aspirants," it leaves clear field for the
''great and only" during the term of his
natural life fully to be completed and
ended.
Now then let the voters and the rising
young men in the Second District look
this matter squarely in the face. If Luke
P. Poland gets back into Congress, he
and his friends calculate that his grip is
good till ''his eye grows dim," unless he
can get Senator Morrill's place, for which
if he can get the vantage ground ola sea-
in the lower House, he will undoubtedly
try, but in the meantime will hold on Il
his place in the House, using that as ;
means of whipping in the waiting aspi
rants" in his district, thus securing, as h,
expects, their support, for the chanc'
they would have at the vacancy created
by his coveted promotion. But remem
Der he will hold on to his seat in tn
he surely will, then the Poland dynast,
will be continued till the people again
rise in their might and choke him off, a
they did in 1874. Apropos of his dispo
sition to hold on, let it be remembers
that in 1874 he was demanding a fit
term, and succeeded in packing the con
vention then, as he has now; but the pee
pie had tried him for four terms and di
not want him any longer, and deliberate
ly cast him out. He was weighed in tn
balance" and not according to Gov. FAN
found wanting" What do the peopl
of Vermont want of him now that the
did not want then? Is he any the less
salary grabber now than then? Any tn
less credit mobilier Whitewater nov
than then? Any the less under suspicio
in the Arkansas report now than then
, Not at all, only these things are not quit
so fresh in the public mind. Is his pr
vate life any nearer what it ought to b
now than then? Judge Poland is sixty
seven years old, and his habits and chal
acter fixed, and in answer to the abov
series of questions another still may b
, asked, ''Can the leopard change his spot
or the Ethiopian his skin?" Judge Pt
land has had his day, has had his eigl
years in Congress, and was then discarC
ed by the people, and unless it be trr
/ that in a preeminent degree he represent
+ the intelligence and morality of Vernon
, he should have been left in retiremen
where the people sent him in 1874 al
the young men of the State given chanc'
unless, as the Waterman and L0ndmdi
| dSSSIt, GuCy dlC 11o0 YIN
: are not. Many of them are Judge p
! lands equals in mental qualities, and h
superior morally. Gen. Grout, his chi
competitor, as estimated by the gre
. dailies of New York and Boston, has ia
en- high rank as a legislator in a sing
session? Why not have given him
chance, and not attempt to resurrect
e man who has 'once passed away?"
n may be true that Grout will not carry
l. much brass, either literally or fguratiy
It ly, into the national House as the histC
l. ic man of ssbrass,' but ought the go
!; people of Vermont, who like fair thin
N rudely set aside a young man who stal
h off SO well and promises so much? T
IS fact is Judge Poland, with all his boast
re greatness, never made, while IN Congress
lie as good speech as that of Genel
)r Grout on the Geneva award, or the ag
IS cultural bill. And yet the Poland pape
ut talk of Grout as a ''pigmy," and call fol-
I'd ssgreat man. and while he is sick, or