News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-07-17
More County Politics.

County politics are warming up as
the time for the convention draws
near. Our article last week created
considerable comment. The only
criticism it received, however, came
from thosewh are supporting special
friends for certain offices-their com
plant being that too many candl-
dates were mentioned for each of the
positions. Weare of the opinion, new
ertheless, that the mass ofthe Republi-
cans of the county are perfectly salts
fed with a plain and true statement
of facts. 1t is only those who have
doubts and fears about the safety OF
their particular friends that find any
fault with the mention of other
names. The people wish to learn who
are talked about for the several
county offices, and we mention them
as a newspaper should, not through
fear or favor, but because the people
have a right to expect just these facts
from the newspaper to whom they
look for information upon these mat
ters
As regards County Senator, the
friends of Geo. Morse, DR.. Randall,
Wallace Parker and Earl Guyer are
putting in active work for their re-
spective candidate. To the list given
last week we add the name of W. u.
Bassett of Eden, whose name is fav-
orably mentioned.
Since our last issue we are advised
! that Edwin c. White of Eden, viii not
be a candidate for Judge of Probate,
but that his friends will ask for his
nomination as one of the Assistant
Judges. This seems to reduce the
list of names suggested to W. H. H.
Kenfeld and Horace Waite, and from
what we learn public sentiment seems
to be quite generally tending towards
the former, not that Judge Waite is
not a most excellent man, but be-
cause there are two or three strong
reasons for the selection of Mr.. Ken
field.
First-He is a well read attorney,
and since the Probate court has be-
come also the court of insolvency
nearly every Probate district in the
State has deemedit proper to elect to
the office of Judge of Probate a man
of legal training
Secondly-Mr Kenfield' experience
in the matter of keeping records, exc
cutting bonds, taking testimony &c.
&C., has been such as to particularly
qualify him to discharge satisfacto-
rily the duties of the Probate court,
while his private life and character
has been such as to inspire the conf
dence that the widows and orphans
will be cared for with conscientious
devotion to their interests. More
than this, it is a well known fact that
the bonds accepted by Mr. Kenfeld
during his long incumbency of the Of
flee of county clerk have demonstrate
ed his good Judgment as well as his
sound conservatism upon this most
important feature of Probate work
1t is said that once in fifteen years all
the property of the county passes
through the Probate court. How es-
sential then, in the interest of the
fatherless and widow, that the in
cumbent of this important office
should be a man of sound dis
cretion and of sufficient backbone
and independence to insist-as Mr..
Kenfield has always done-that no
insufficient security be accepted on
bonds Later-We have just learned
that l. n. LeBarron of Morristown,
would accept the Probate Judgeship
if rendered to him.
We understand a portion of Water
vile are anxious to have Henry Will
bur of that town nominated for As
sociate Judge.
The friends OF the candidates for the
other offices are on the alert and in
dications point to a most lively con-
vention Tuesday the Doth.