Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-04-11
A Hnnilating Proposition.

From the ST. Adams Messenger.
Mr.. Page, having selected himself for
governor, is now, it is said, trying to select
some one for Lieutenant governor. Some
prominent Veterans on the other side of the
mountain have been approached by him or
his intimate friends and invited TO . place
on the ticket with him. So far the attempt
is understood to have been unsuccessful.
These old veterans are somewhat notional.
Whenever they aspire to political honors
they desire to 20 upon ticket with some
one who, if he did not enter the war service.
distinguished himself in patriotic duty at
home. These old vets also hesitate to go on
a ticket with a man who in substance says
to them "Nou must distinctly understand
if you accept of the second place on my
ticket that YOU are barred from being a can
didate for the position that | am seeking.
which is good enough for me but will thus
he placed hey ond your reach BY this act
of yours YOU will be deprived of any chance
You might have had by standing aloof 1t
is well to be frank about these things. If
should die in Office or become incapacitated
from any cause. you will he allowed to serve
out the balance of my term, but if such
calamity should be considered among the
possibilities some other, ADLER and more de
serving man would be selected. You must
expect when you are in Montpelier next fall
presiding over the Senate or over the Joint
assembly that the legislators of Vermont
and by ISLANDERS viii say, he is a very capa
bic man and discharges his duties WELL but
he has bitten of his own nose by accepting
the Office of lieutenant governor and must
stop whore he is He is to be pitied, but
there i, no help for him The speaker is
also good man, but, although he may not
have the same qualifications for governor he
can he a candidate for the Office if his friends
so desire Or they might declare on the
other hand we should think they would
have known better than to have selected
such man as be is for lieutenant governor
there no danger that he will ever be any
thing more. God spare our chief magis-
trate, for if he should die, what would be
come of our affairs before our next cleo
ton. The whole question Of so-called
promotion, or of ron-promotion. is as
the Rutland Herald truly says, "a waste OF
wind. Any candidate for lieutenant-gov-
| ernor when nominated, if he has any self
respect, would be apt to say: Gentlemen
of the convention-ln the acceptance of the
Office of lieutenant governor | understand
that you do no. select me for governor now
or for two years hence, and that neither
myself nor any iriends of mine will make
any claim upon the republicans of the State
on account OF my being lieutenant COVER.
nor But, if ! am to he barred from being
candidate for the goyernorship if my
friends should desire to present my name
for that office, aud it | shall have forfeit
ed my equal chances and privileges with
Others Of my fellow citizens as to the future.
| | must say that in justice to myself | can
not accept of the nomination under these
conditions. The election of any man to an
office under these limitation, and restraint.
! would b. exceedingly humiliating, aud,
candidly, the acceptance Of these eXacton-
and conditions would not be expected of any
man of spirit. Let every tub stand on it.
| own bottom