Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-04-28
THE GOVERNORSHIP.

ans of Vermont will choose their can
didates for governor. The leading
candidates that are already in the field
are Col. Samuel E. Pingree of Hart
ford, our present lieutenant governor
Hon. B. d. Harris of Brattleboro,
and Hon. George Nichols of North
field, the present incumbent of the
office of secretary of state. Col. Pin
gree is a graduate of Dartmouth col
lege, is an excellent scholar, a sound
lawyer and man of unblemished in
tegrity in public and private life, q
sober-minded man, independent in
speech and action. To these vaIua-
bic civic qualities he adds high per-
sonal popularity obtained by his gal
liant service as lieutenant-colonel of
the Sd Vermont volunteers. He led
the charge Of four companies Of the
Sd Vermont that at Lees Mills, Va,
April 10th, 1862, dashed through
Warwick creek under heavy fire and
carried the rebel rife pits, as gallant
q feat of arms as was done on either
side during the war. In this charge
Col. Pingree was wounded. Since
1876 the lieutenant governor has sue
ceeded to the governorship and it is
entirely natural that the many per-
sonal and political friends of Lieu
tenant Colonel Pingree should press
him for nomination this year. The
Woodstock Standard by authority
announces Col. Pingree as consenting
to the use of his name for the sue
cession on the ground that the govern
orship of Vermont is too honorable q
place to be either declined or intrigued
for; the Windsor Journal also sup
ports Col. Pingree and there is no
doubt that he will come to the con-
vention with Windsor county solid
for him. Hon. B. D. Harris of Brat
tleboro, whose name will be present
ed by Windham county, is one of the
brightest and most accomplished pub
! lie men in his section of the state.
Like Col. Pingree, he is q graduate
of Dartmouth college, but his life
has been spent chiefly in business
pursuits in which he has won a COM
petence as we'll as an enviable repu-
tation as a man of unusual executive
and administrative talents. Mr.. Har.
ris has never lost his early scholarly
tastes he is an able and practiceC
writer and sound thinker on all lead
ing political questions, and would
make without question a brilliant
vigorous and popular executive. HI
is familiar with the history of thu
state; its legislation in the past; it
needs for the future and to these es
sential and solid qualifications 70
public life he adds the lighter recon
mendations of urbane manners ant
excellent powers of conversation
Mr.. Harris was an influential mem
Der in the state senate in 1S61-62
Windham county will doubtless urg
his name with considerable earnest
ness, as she has not had q goyerno
since 1861, when Hon. Frederic
Holbrook was elected to succeed Coy
ernor Erastus Fairbanks. Hon. Gee
: Nichols of Mortified is a popular
genial gentleman, of excellent pc
t sonal character, who for many yeal
= has been secretary of state, chai
: man of the republican state CONVEX
e ton, and secretary of the Centr
l Vermont railway company. Thes
/, various political and business trus
: he has discharged with high abili
n and fidelity and with a personal cou
: tesy that has won him large folloy
d ing of political friends througho
). the state. While never, we believ
q member of either branch of Il
e Legislature, his friends fairly urge
ie his behalf that his presence at Mon
], pelier during so many sessions h
n made him familiar with the course
'. legislation, and that his duties as Sc
~ rotary of state have made him acc
st rately acquainted with especially t
@ tax laws and insurance legislatio
ut DR.. Nichols early in the late W
n went into the service as surgeon
ct the 18th Vermont regiment, viii
position he filed with great credit
himself and to the country. The 6
nuaI officers reunions are honor
en- with his familiar face and gen
n presence. Mr.. Nichols will be, WI
tie out doubt, strongly represented in
ed convention. As we look at it now
i'm is anybody's fight at present; it
I'm two months before the convent
e meets, and with few exceptions
he newspapers of the state have not
of cidedly pronounced for any car
OILS date .-Rmldnd Herald.
ey The woods of the United States are
his timated to cover 3SO,0OO,0 900 acres, o
the per cent of the total area.
tor - '----
for Samon, the murderer, has been sent
ler- ed at Laconia, n. H., to be hanged A
one II, 1885.
nay
the Interesting to Farmers.-1 make T
III, toes a speciality When l have plent.
~ barn-yard manure, l find that 200 to
pounds of Bradleys Phosphate per ;
we'd in the hill. will very nearly double
dial crop. Potatoes start quickly on Brad
- Phosphate, and ripen from two TO
Vi weeks sooner than where no Phosphf