Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-03-21
Che Esses County 9erald,
ISLAND POND, MARCH "a. ISs4.
EDMUNDS.

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EDMUNDS.
Edmunds?
No.
Why? Amt he a good man?
Yes.
What's the trouble then? Capable?
Yes.
Then why can't he be President ?
Why for the plainest reasons in
the world. One is because he halls
from a small state; but the most po-
tent reason is that our Common
wealth must be denied the privilege
of seeing her favorite son promoted
because she is unsurpassed in her
loyalty to the government and to the
principles of the great party which
controls the administration of the
general government. Edmunds is
acknowledged to be by nature, char
acter, education, life training and
craftsmanship conspicuous above any
other man in the whole land. 1t is
therefore humiliating that our peo-
pie, especially the press of this coun-
try, are acknowledging thai the fit
test man for President cannot be
nominated for that office. If this
grows out of defect in our form of
government, then its foundations are
fast weakening, and its glories rap
idly fading. If it may be attributed
to political degeneracy, then party
boasts sound hollow. If it grows
out of a diversity of interests so
conflicting as to allow the nomina-
ton of no one, other than some un-
known person so obscure as that he
has not had any fixed political senti-
ments, or, if he has, that he has new
er had enterprise enough to have
identified himself before the coun-
try with any of them-so that in
stead Of having a man Of tried, true
and tested constituencies and politi-
cal views, we must take one either
not having any views at all or, if
having any, his practical use of or
faith in them are entirely untrled
and unknown to the country at large,
thus making faithful, scholarly
and patriotic work and abilities an
irrefragable barrier to the true and
tried man and closing the door OF
the White House against him, and
opening it wide for the entrance OF
one against whom nothing can be
said because of whom nothing is
known, and whose political views
and positions cannot be attacked
because the former are unknown and
of the latter he has never taken one
Men, without distinction of party
and with scarcely an exception, &C
knowledge that our political tenden
cies are to bring upon the country
tame and insipid administrations
wofully wanting in character or true
political economy. If ever there
was a time when the Republican
party could afford to try the expert
ment, it is the present when the
Democratic party is divided upol
questions of tariff, finance, civil SCI
vice and many others, and when tina
party is filled with so many anxiou
and bitter strifes and rivalries. Be
sides, the danger Of defeat with ;
man of true and tried abilities o
character will not be half as grea
as to meet the people with candi
date of opposite character, and t.
hear the mass of the people exclain
it is even better to have a Democrat
ic President with Jacksonian charac
teristics than to have one with sucl
as are represented by some Hayes
Besides, it is not more desirable t.
achieve temporary success than t
obtain an administration which will
establish foundations for the pros
peritY of the party and the who'll
country. The permanency of tn
party cannot be established on
personal following, sectional or Il
cal issues growing out of circun
scribed interests or political exped
ency, but rather upon principle
which will meet the approbatio
and sound judgment of the Who'll
country.
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