Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-04
TO CANDID VOTERS.

upon 10 uepOSll your VOUeS. w HIT
ever may be your personal preferen-
ces, you will doubtless remember that
you are acting under solemn oath,
voting $50 as in your conscience you
shall judge will most conduce to the
best good" etc. Men sometimes
forget that friends, candidates in their
own towns, nominees in their own
parties are not in reality the best men
for the place named. Others, having
antipathies or prejudices, sacrifice
principles in their opposition to wor-
thy candidates. But when the voter
comes straight down to business, it is
the man in any office who is best fit
ted for it. Fitness is the word that
covers all the qualifications, and this
embraces first, honesty, that kind of
a man who has good convictions and
who cannot be swerved from his pur-
pose; second, ability, embracing
judgment, knowledge of what he is
required to do, and that high requi-
site, common sense, which shall help
him to do the best and wisest thing
at all times.
The character of the state tickets,
both republican and democratic, is
such that few men in either party will
care to "scratch'' thei1 tickets; on
the question of representative to con-
gress there is considerable diversity
of sentiment in this section. Gen.
Grout is a citizen of the county and
many insist on voting for him. 1t is
well known that many of his friends
have been disappointed and wrathy
because he would not assist in foment-
ing a bolt, but the General could not
countenance this and be consistent
with party practices. By ill-luck or
otherwise, the General came short of
votes in the convention, and he would
put himself in bad plight to do,
| himself, what all his friends and the
| whole party so stoutly denounced in
Barlow, when he bolted the General
four years ago. Judge Poland and
Gen. Circuit are equally well known
to all our readers, and they ought to
| weigh the matter candidly and act
conscientiously in casting their votes.
The friends of Gen. Grout must con-
! slider for themselves whether they do
him kindness or an injury in voting
for him. In regard to the county
ticket, the choice is to be made be-
tween three sets of candidates. The
first ticket nominated was that of the
Irregular republicans. The candi-
dates for senators are Mr.. Crane of
Newport and Mr.. Templeton Of
Glover. Mr.. Crane is well known
lawyer and one of the keenest and
most successful in the county. His
friends assert that he is a tenn
perance man and others deny it..
We regret that we have been
unable to support our neighbor, DR..
Templeton, for this office, for reasons
we have given. Here let it be under
stood, whatever has been reported
otherwise, that our opposition to him
has not been inspired by any 'grudge'
or by anything else, than that we
could not conscientiously endorse
him for this office. We do not wish
to have it inferred from what we have
said, that this candidate is a man de-
void of all good qualities He is
genial, generous, neighborly and pos
sessed with a certain sort of magnet
ism that makes many warm friends.
| Whatever his record and standing is
in the county, he is responsible for
it, and he must stand OF fall upon it.
AS the Hbolters" selected Mr.. Fetch
er of Holland for their nominee for
side judge, in place of Judge Hoyt of
Westfield, we suppose it was done
because they felt that they were plac-
ing a man on the ticket who could be
fully endorsed by all his townspeople
on temperance, and a man as well
fitted for the office as could be found
in the county. The democrats made
a wise selection for all the important
places on their ticket, and if they
were not in such hopeless minority
one to three-they might expect te
win with their ticket. The peoples
convention placed in nomination fol
first senator Charles Carpenter Of
Charleston, man too well known tt
need a word of praise. Familiar will
all kinds of business, excellently in
formed in matters of law, clear ant
sharp as the keenest lawyer in debate
familiar with the duties of a legisla
tor, pure, and clean in private life
) prominent in the church, the commun
ity and the whole county, no bette
nomination could possibly have beer
made. Of Mr.. Goss it may be sait
that he embodies every good quality
and that his record in his own tow
is as good as any man can make fo
: himself he is familiar with town busi
1 ness, and possesses that practices
common sense which will make hian
{. good legislator. The "boltersT as
sisted in giving Messrs. DAafton
Prouty, Patterson, Austin and Ornf
nominees on the first ticket, a. fiji
o and emphatic endorsement, by pr'
: ting them on the new ticket.
e But our readers pretty well kno'
e these men and they will, doubtless
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