The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-04-27

six. The WATCHMAN further expresses
its obligation to the Messenger for the
use of the excellent report of Mr.. Reeds
first speech printed in its supplement
of last week. Belated acknowledge
ments are better than none, but the de-
lay is much regretted inadvertence.
COLONEL FORBES writes the Boston
Journal on Vermont politics, and gives
the result of his "kodak canvass at
the late state convention. He says:
The Journal correspondent has received
in writing the expressed preferences on the
gubernatorial question of 159 delegates to
the late republican state convention, which
form, perhaps, an index of public senti-
ment on the subject. The vote recorded is
as follows:
Levi X. Fuller 30
H. A. Fletcher had 81
Victor Spear 10
Scattering.
Colonel Fuller" Forbes says, has sup
porters in every county in the state. His
candidacy is especially strong in Windham,
Rutland, Washington, Chittenden, Lamoille,
Orleans and Essex counties, and he has
many supporters in Franklin, Bennington,
Windsor, Caledonia and Orange counties.
Colonel Fuller has gradually been gaining
in strength as a candidate during the past
six weeks, and his friends profess much
confidence in his nomination. He is con-
spicuously identified with one of the great
industrial enterprises of Vermont-the Es-
tey organ works. He is public spirited
and progressive man, and a liberal giver to
educational institutions. Colonel Fuller
has had good legislative experience as sena-
tor and acknowledgement, and he would
make very creditable representative of the
state as its governor at home or abroad
The Rutland Herald processes to
find, in the WATCHMAN's statement
that national questions will dominate in
the state campaign, confession of the
weakness of Colonel Fuller as a candi-
date. This conclusion is of the lame
and impotent kind our contemporaries
alleged intellect daily evolves. How
was it in the recent canvass in Rhode
Island? Were Thomas B. Reed and
Governor Mckinley, on the part of
the republicans, and ex-President
Cleveland and Ex-Governor Campbell
on the side of the democrats, brought
into that state to discuss local affairs,
to discourse on the merits of the rival
candidates for governor? How many
people outside of Rhode Island knew
or cared who were the candidates for
the Office of GOVERNOR The burning
issues were national issues; the deep
and widespread interest in the election
sprang from the fact that important
national questions alone were in the
canvass. So has it always been in
Vermont and throughout the Union in
the years of the national election; so
will it be again in still larger degree in
the canvass now opening. State affairs,
the personality of candidates, will be
lost to view. 1t is just as rational to
say that the fact of speakers of the
highest national fame, arguing ques-
tons of vital national moment in
Rhode Island, was confession of the
weakness of the candidate for gov
ernor, as to claim that the WATCHMAN' s
position in this matter is an acknowl-
edgment of the weakness of Colonel
Fuller's candidacy. What was true in
Rhode Island will be true in Vermont
whoever is the candidate. The repub
licans always nominate capable and
worthy men, and they can nominate
this year no one more capable ant
worthy than Colonel Fuller.