Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-06-19
About senator Edmund..

The Springfield Republican of last Monday
had column and-a-half of gossip about Yer
mont politics, dated at Middlebury, some of
which had basis of truth while for the bal.
ance the writer showed himself equal to the
occasion by drawing on his imagination for
his facts. The leading topic of the letter is
the story which certain press correspondents
have set afioat that the "Blaine partisans"
have put movement on foot to defeat Mr..
Edmunds for reelection to the Senate next
year. The writer thinks that ex Gov Smith
is the man who would most like to succeed
Mr.. Edmunds, but he wisely adds that 'it is
magnifying things a good deal to say that
there is any determined or organized effort
on the part of anybody to prevent the reGlec-
ton of Senator Edmunds."
One of the most interesting bits of gossip
in the letter is that which alleges that last
fall, after the presidential election, and while
few Blaine men in the legislature and the
lobby we're scolding about Mr.. Edmunds GER
tain of ex-Gov. Smiths adherents drew up
resolution condemning Senator Edmunds's
course in the campaign, which it was propos-
ed to have a caucus of Republican members
adopt and then put it through. 1T was put
into the hands of Senator Warren Gibbs of
Burlington, the chairman of the Republican
state committee. Wallace W. Parker, the
representative from Cambridge, rattle-head
ed Blaine man with an extraordinary gift of
CAB of the Logan variety, was to be his lieu
tenant. But it was discovered that the res
olution could not be carried and the scheme
was dropped"
Our own information is to the effect that
if such resolution was ever thought Of it
was drawn up some night by the above nam
ed long haired, loud-mouthed Parker in his
own room, and then shown by him to one or
two of his cronies who had the good sense to
put an eItinguisher on it before ever IL saw
daylight And this is all there is or ever was
to any talk about "condemning" Senator Ed.
munds.
Further on in his letter this writer under.
takes to say that there is ''some reason" for
believing that at the end of his present term
the Senator will decline a reelection and ire
tire from politics" The Burlington Free
Press disposes of this statement in short Or
der by affirming pos itively, and by authority
derived evidently from Mr. Edmunds himself
that 'if he lives and retains his health, which
is now excellent, till the next meeting of the
legislature he will be candidate for reeleo.
tion." This being the case, the remainder of
the political small talk and conjecture which
fills the letter is of small account. We may
add, however the Free Press also denies the
assertion of this correspondent that, when
President Hayes offered Mr.. Edmunds place
on the supreme bench, which he was Inclined
to accept, the Senator at once notified OK. Gov.
Stewart of the fact 80 as to give him the in
side track for the senatorial succession. On
this point the Free Press says, from posi-
tive knowledge, that Mr.. Stewart did not
learn of the prospective change through Mr.
Edmunds, directly or indirectly On the con-
trary his knowledge of the matter came
through an entirely different channel As
happened the vacancy on the supreme bench
which Mr.. Edmunds was to have filled did
not then occur. When 1t came later, under