News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-28
The Coming Election.


September 2, the date of the next
biennial election, is near at hand.
The state committee has issued an
address "to the color-bearers of the
Republican party in Vermont and
incidentally, we assume, to the rank
and file of the party-reminding the
voters that important issues are
before the people,; that : it is of the
greatest Importance this year that
men of ability and character be elect
ed to both branches of the legisla-
ture,' and that "alllegislatiOn should
be in the line of economy" while es-
chewing "niggardliness and stlngI-
ness In view of " the quiet but per-
sistent efforts of the Democratic lead
ers in Vermont to create the impress
sion that there is opposition to the
prohibitory law of our state" the
committee warns the friends OF NOR
ality and temperance that they can
not afford to be absent from the polls
on the first Tuesday of September.
The pride of Vermont In her Republi-
can maiorities is recited, and "the
colOr-bearers are adjured not to
lower the standard now. Business or
personal considerations should noe
deter Republican voters from gong
to the polls, or the fact that this is
the off year render any one indiffer-
ent.
The state committee is entirely
right-the Republican state ticket
must command the respect and con-
fidence of every fair-minded voter in
the state" As a journal in neigh
boring state characterized it. the
ticket is one of the cleanest and
strongest that the Green Mountain
boys have ever been called upon to
support" 1t deserves a majority
"of which we shall be proud" and we
add our earnest exhortation to the
voters to come out andcontribute to
a booming majority for Page and
| Fletcher. But the size of the major
ity is, after all, chiefly a matter of
party or personal pride. One thous-
and majority, for all practical ends,
is as good as ten thousand or twerty-
five thousand. 1t is the off year, and
it is vain to expect that the tension
ofnational issues, or national party
pride, will be applied and will pile up
the majority of presidential years.
OF far greater Importance this year
than the size of the state majority is
the election for Representatives of
men having, in the superlat tive de-
gree, the constitutional qualification
of D." wisdom and virtue" Never since
the earlier years of the state was
there louder call that this mandate
of the constitution be construed and
obeyed in its letter and spirit. 1t is
needless to recite at this time the cir
cumstances of the hour or the cOndi-
tiOns that confront the state. They
were part and parcel of the late can
vass for governor or have since been
the subject of discussion. The devel-
Opments of the census enforce the ne
cessity for enlisting all the practical
wisdom that is available in the work
of devising and putting into effective
operation such means as may be en-
ployed to arrest the backward drift in
the farming towns of Vermont. The
questions that should employ the
first and most serious attention of
the next legislature are for the most
part of an intensely practical kind
and practical men, successful men OF
affairs, whose approved wisdom
stands also the test of superlative
virtue, should be sent to the house of
Representatives. Wecare less whether
they are farmers, lawyers, doctors or
business men, provided they have
clear heads, sound Judgment, ample
experience, broad and comprehensive
views, supplemented by virtue of "a
sterling type and the historic patriot
ism of Vermonters. We adjure every
town to cast about among its citi-
zens for a man of this stamp, and,
putting under foot every other con-
sideration, bring him to the front and
elect him to the next general assem-
bly,. An election of this sort, consti-
tuting a representative body of the
constitutional kind has in it moro ~
real glory for Vermont, more OF hope
and encouragement, than the heavi-
est majority by which the state has
aforetime foretold the triumph of the
national Republican cause Watch,
man