Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-02-29

capacity and gained valuable experience in
public Office, and who is known as a gentle
man OF Intelligence aud proved integrity
Let our readers be easy in their minds. We
have been simply commencing to the Mont
peIier Waterman some of its own logic. bv
reproducing above, with a slightly varied an
plication, few sentences from q column of
like nonsense IN that paper, aimed at the
very harmless remark Of the FREE PRrss TO
the effect that we understood that DR.. Mich.
OILS had decided to retire from the Office of
Secretary of State.
In SO saying, the FREE Press did not say,
or intimate, that Dr. Nichols, or his friends
for him, asserted any 'tite" TO the govern
orship in his behalf. Such an idea was in
TACT expressly excluded by our remark that
we favored him only because we believed he
would make an honest, digniicd and capa-
bic Governor. In the article at which the
Wdtchman flies SO suappShly the FRRE
PRESS was talking Of candidates. for the
| nomination of the State convention. In
| saying that DR.. Nichols, rs we understood,
| would retire from the sccrctaryship VIC
simply said that he would in any event de-
cline to be again II candidate for that Office
which is what the DYdtctH,qn says. We
| added that the matter of his retiring from
that Office, or in other words his declining
to be candidate for it, was matter for
himself to determine. Who, pray, hasTa
better right than the man himself to deter
mine whether or no he will be again can
dldatc for an Office which he is holding? 1t
was fair inference, perhaps, from our art-
ticle, that if DR.. Nichols c0uld be a candid
ate again Tor Secretary of State, We should
be glad to support him-such is at any rate
the case; for we do not think it will be the
easiest thing in the world 10 make good his
place as Secretary. But since lie will not
DO candidate for that Office, and will, IN
DER the advice aud encouragement Of numer-
Gus friends all over the State, be a
candidate for Governor the FREE
PRESS favors him, as between two
worthy candidates for the nomination.
This, not because he, or anybody for him,
claims mortgage on the oiiice--a claim first
suggested We believe, some weeks ago by
the Wdtch6tdt-we recognize no mortgage
on the GoverDOrship, for Secretary, or Lieu
tenant-Guvcrnor, or Treasurer-but because,
II the representatives of the Republican party
see Tit to place him at the head Of the ticket,
and ii the people approve the selection al
| the polls, lie will make a good Governor. AL
| this was made so plain in cur article, that nc
intelligent boy Of fifteen could misunderstood
1t. The Waterman, Of course, is not as
stupid as it tres to make itself out to be, in
this matter 1t is simply at sea, running
| wild, "fOT Cowes and market" 1t is dis
grunted about something Exactly what,
does not appcar-and seeks relief in scold-
| ing. When it has "sloshcd round" sufli-
GENTLY, it will settle down, and perhaps see
that if it cannot have exactly what it wants,
at the very time it wants it, there may lie
some practical wisdom in taking the best it
can get.
| L. S.-Nolhing above is to bc taken as
quarrelng with the Vatctman's suggestion
of MIR. Porter for Secretary of State. II is,
for aught we know, a good suggestion.