News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-09
state politios-Press Comments.


[From the Brattleboro Phoenix
Col. Fuller will be the next Govern
or of Vermont; his home support in
the preliminary canvass will be
hearty and spontaneous; he will poll
the full vote of his home constituency
when election day comes, and in due
time he will prove to the people of
the state that their confidence in him
has not been misplaced.
[From the Hardwick Gazette
If anything were needed to prove
conclusively that the Republican boss
es of Vermont have organized pol
itical machine, that the machine is in
perfect operation and that the boss
es have the people by the throat and
have mapped out their work for their
next decade, quite recent events
would assure the truth of the asser-
ton. For instance The editor in
chief of the Burlington Free Press,
collector of customs Benedict has,
with Col. q. A. Woodbury., very evil
IDENTIFY become party to trade by
which the ticket this year is to be
L y
Woodbury. and somebody else, and
next time Fletcher and a selected
running mate. By that time, six
years from now Mr.. Stranahan will
be the object of spontaneous up
rising" by the people. We have been
repeatedly advised of this within the
past two months, but have hesitated
to credit it. The course of the Free
| Press, however assures the liability
of it. Lately there has been an in
creasing sentiment in favor of Hon.
E. B. Taft of Burlington for Lieut..
Governor, and Mr.. Taft has been re-
ceiving some solid backing, but the
Free Press brushes away his eandi-
| dacy, declares that he his only Joke,
and insists that the ticket must be
Fuller and Stranahan. We honestly
believe this to be the most gross and
bare faced insolence that the people
of Vermont were ever called upon to
submit to. Will the great mass of
the party in the face of such plain
evidence that they are being made
fools of consent to be bound and
gagged, or will they get out from uu-
der the load?
| From the Free Press
Vermont honors her soldiers who
fought for the Union, and no time
since the war have the Republicans of
Vermont failed to accord at least one
of the five State offices which are
elective by vote of the freemen to a
veteran soldier. For many years
years in which the State has given
some of it's heaviest Republican ma
jorities- it has been their practice to
give either the first or second place on
a ticket to a soldier. Now we all
want Vermont to roll up one of her
heaviest majorities this year. Will it
be wise, with that end in view, to
nominate a ticket without a Union
conceded, will head the ticket. He is
not veteran. The State treasurer
and secretary of state, who will be
renominated, we're not soldiers OF
the candidates for auditor of accounts
no one was a soldier. 1t is not to the
discredit of any of these gentleman
that they did not bear arms for the
Union; but it so happens that they
did not. If there is to be a soldier on
the ticket, then, it must be on the
second place. Disappointment on
the part of many voters, that the
GoverHorship was not accorded to a
one-armed veteran, two years ago,
cost the State ticket thousands of
votes. The soldiers are not asking
for a soldier at the head of ticket
this year; but how would they take
it if a good soldier, who is also re-
spected and trusted in civil life, were
to be rejected for the second place, in
order to crafty the personal ambi-
ton of a citizen who has no war rec
ord? The convention will not be
likely to do anything of the kind ;
| and it would be well for all who are
anxious to see full vote and big
! majority, to take consideration to
which we have called attention into
the account. No risks should be run
this year, and none will beif veteran
is nominated for Cover
nor.
From the st. Johnsbury Republican,
The Burlington Free Press all of a
sudden takes a tender interest in the
welfare of our genial and popular
Secretary of State, Chauncy w.
Brownell, and does not want Hon. E.
b. Taft for Lieutenant-Govern lest
it might hurt ChaEncy's prospects.
Burlington will present Mr.. Brown
ellis name for reelection as Secreta-
ry of State and does not wish to ask
for any thing more" Passing over
the question why, if this is the case,
the Free Press was yelling so Justify
for Auditor Powell up to a recent
date, we would like to say that when
Mr.. Brownell made his first run,
couple of years ago, the Free Press
didn't take any marked interest in
him, as Mr.. Brownell well remembers,
and it's sudden solicitude is very fun
ny. But as q matter of fact it will
make not the least difference in the
world if the Burlington delegation or
for that matter the whole Chittenden
county delegation are opposed to
Mr.. Brownell. He will be renomina-
ted Just the same-and he will deserve
the compliment. And that will be no
reason whatever why the Lieutenant
Governorship should not go to Hon.
E. B. Taft.
From the Mortified News.l
Largely through the efforts of his
militia comrades, together with the
imprudent course of the Rutland
Herald, Col Fuller has secured the
delegationfrom Rutland to the State
convention. There are only twelve
militia companies in Vermont but
being scattered in as many different
towns, they serve Fuller a good pur-
pose through which to pull wires.
Should he be nominated through
their labors he might reward them BY
recommending their formation into
a standing army or at least dedicat-
ing his celebrated poem to them. Sc
riously, if the voters don't want Col.
Fuller they will have to muster cour-
age, attend caucuses, stand up and
be counted.
[From the Vermont Journal
AS the time tor the state conven-
ton draws near it becomes apparent
that Col. Levi K Fuller of BrattIe-
boro will be the next Governor of
Vermont. The opposition to his
nomination cannot unite upon any
candidate, and the sentiment in his
favor becomes more pronounced
daily. Thisis eminently satisfactory
to his Windham county friends, and
no less gratifying to those of Wind
sor county who have advocated his
selection from the beginning of the
canvass. 1t is also apDarent that