St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-07-03
Obe CALIFORNIAN.
PRESS COMMENTS.
still More Gratifviue.

Still more gratifying, after so
sharp contest as this has been, is
the kindly spirit in which the deci-
sion is received and accepted by Mr..
Pages opponents-or most of them.
The Rutland Herald accepted with
bad grace the bitter pill of its de-
feat, but in general MIR. Woodbury's
followers have come up handsomely
to the support of the ticket. The
number of kilograms poured in upon
him have testified to the wide circle
of friends to whom Mr.. Pages nom
inatiOn has given personal satisfac-
ton. He has come out of an eXcep-
tiOnally bitter contest with a charac-
ter uninjured by the assaults upon
it, and with unimpaired feelings OF
kindness toward all his party associ-
ates- News and Citizen.
Worthy Candidate.
The warmest partisan of Mr..
Woodbury. must admit that Mr..
Page is in all respects worthy can
didatc. He has for many years been
actively identified with the republi-
can organiza ton. He has performed
good service in several responsible
capacities in connection with the
state government He has demon
strated his aptness for affairs by the
successful management of prosper
Gus business. In every position in
which he has been tried he has proved
his qualities as q man and citizen.
Mr. Page is entitled to the united
support of the republicans of Yer
mont for the responsible office for
which he has been nominated. If the
activity which has characterized the
preliminary canvass is carried into
the campaign, he is certain to receive
a high-water mark majority BOs-
ton Journal.
Wrong Impression.
If Vermont were not Il state in
which such an act as boiling re
publican nomination for n state of
flee would be futile of any other effect
than that of protest, an opposition
republican candidate for governor to
the regular nominee there might well
be expected. The leading republican
journals of the state are intensely
dissatisfied with the candidate Sc
lected, Mr. Carroll S. Page, who,
flea tions for the position with other
men who have filled it, and with his
leading competitor in the canvass
He is charged on their part with be
ing an offensive kind of politician,
who obtained the nomination
through the free use of money and
other Objectionable acts of manage
ment Taking Mr.. Page at this
valuation, there should be refusal
to vote for him, actuated by a proper
sense of seli-respect in the voters who
know the kind of man he is. His de
feat is an impossibility. Vermont
used to be called i'll old Wing days
the star that never sets" and she is
fixed star still in the republican
frmament.-[ Boston Herald.
The Fail of Hooker.
Carroll $. Page carried off the
nomina ton for governor in the Yer
mont republican convention at
Montpelier, last Thursday, by dint
of sharp politics; but when successes
of that sort are around it must have
been bitter disappointment to Col.
George w. Hooker of Brat tleboro to
fail of the nomination for lieutenant
governor. He ran down the list OF
possibilities, from congressman to
second place on the state ticket, and
nobody appears to have thought at
the end of offering him pair OF
slightly damaged trousers - that
would indeed have been both unkind
and unwelcOme; yet that was what
once happened to an Office-seeker in
the White House many years ago, it
will be remembered. This result
lends an added force as well to the
rather gratuitOus remarks of Henry
c. Bates of st. Johnsbury, who, in
nOmina ting Gen. GrOut in WedneS-
days COMPASSIONATE convention called
attention to the fact that one of the
aSpirantS of six years ago was now
governor, while the third had Il title
better than that of governor or con-
gresham, that of Il high-minded,
patriotic citizen" Evidently these
VermOnters intend that Col. Hooker
shall continue to wear this unclassi-
fed and unsatisfactory title. There
were other surprises i'll the cOnven-
ton, chief among them being the
nomination of H. +. Field of Rut-
land for state treasurer over w. II.
Dubois Auditor Powell came out of
the fray as the spared monument on
the old ticket.-[Springfield Republi-
can.