News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-05-19
Press Comments on the Governor
Question.

From the West Randolph Herald.
Some of our contemporaries are
evidently misled in thinking that the
candidacy of Victor |. Spear, for Gov
ernor, is of a mere complimentary
character. We are free to say that
he has received many complimentary
notices, but his friends are very much
in earnest in urging his name in the
utmost good faith, believing that no
name has yet been presented that is
so free from objection or has in it so
many elements that would command
popular support, together with the
ability to fill the office with honor to
himself and credit to the state He
is squarely in the field, and in to stay,
and we believe to win.
From the Brattleboro Reformer.1
The West Randolph Herald and
News is figuring to show how either
Col. Fuller or Col. Fletcher world be
a weak candidate for Governor. In
1886, when Fuller was acandidatefor
observation-disclosures, as it shows
from the official figures, he ran 521
votes behind Ormsbee, weak as the
latter was, and 54S behind the aver
age of the ticket And this weakness
was apparently not all confined to
Windham county, because in 1880
when Fuller was a candidate for SEQ
ator in this county, his vote was 1873
behind that of Farnham, though it
was presidential year. But even this
is better than Col. Fletcher did in
1890. Then he had q majority of
only 13, 467 for Lieutenant-Governor
and ran 961 behind the average of
his ticket, and only 100 ahead of
Page, who was extensively cut be-
cause of the Woodbury. feud. The
Herald and News conclusion is that
Victor l. Spear must be the nominee
There ought to be a good chance for
the Democrats to do something, if
they can only straighten themselves
out between now and election.
From the st. Johnsbury Caledonian
The Burlington Free Press says, in
substance, that the whole state is
practically solid for Fuller except Adj
Olson county, where, for some reason
it is unable to understand, there is
more or less opposition to the battle
SCARED veteran.
If the Free Press knew anything
about the matter-which it doesn't
it would know that Caledonia, Or
leans, Essex and Addison counties
are solid against Col. Fuller, and in
every other country in the state(ex-
cept perhaps Windham) the delega-
tions will be divided
1
does not even truthfully represent the
sentiments of the Republicans of its
own city. Many, and we believe a
majority, of Burlington's most influ-
entail Republicans are opposed to
Col. Fuller, and we here put upon
record the prediction that Burling-
ton will not send a Fuller delegation
to the state convention.
From the Mortified News]
The leading objection of the Fuller
shouters to Fletcher is that inasmuch
as the last Republican convention re-
fused to promote Lieut.. Gov. Wood
bury the coming convention should
serve the present lieutenant governor
likewise. This seems to be a very in
adequate reason. Why not weigh
the two men intellectually and decide
UPON their true merit? Is it because
the Fuller adherents fear that such
5est would show that they seek to i
'mbarrass the opposition by the non -,
promotion argument? If the non
promotion guage is to be applied it r
would exclude Fuller, a past lieuten- 1
mt governor, as well as Fletcher, the i
resent one. Let every tub stand on
is own bottom. Would Fletcher
make a better governor than Fuller?
S the candid question for the Repub-
lean voters to decide
[From the Middlebury Register.l !
Thirty years ago the proposition
to elect such a man as Col. Levi X
Fuller to the governorship would {
have been received with derision. 1t {
would have been said that he was too :
small for the place; and, what is
more, he would not have stood a | !
ghost of a show of the nomination /
or the election. But in these days,
regretful as is the fact, it does not
strike the mass of the voters as az
all absurd that he should aspire to
the position, nor does it seem proba-
bic at this juncture that the opposi-
ton has organization, strength and
consistency enough to defeat him.
He is antagonized and, with sufficient
vigor, in spots, but the opposition
lacks thecoherency necessary to make
it effectual. Lieut.. Gov. Fletcher has |
many friends, and so have other
gentlemen who have been named for |
first place on the state ticket; but
the division of forces weakens the OPP
position to Mr. Fuller's organiza-
ton, which, apparently well supplied |
with the sinews of war, and with but
one aim in view-his elevation to the
governorship-keeps industriously at
work If he succeeds in his raid for
the Office, it will become an establish
ed thing that any man, even of COM
paratively small calibre and of no
known fitness, can, provided he has
money enough to form and run a
boom, get himself nominated and
elected to the governorship of Yer
mont
Training the Memory.