Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-06-03
On What Col. FuIIer's Home support
Is BASED.

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Is Based.
The letter from Col. Haskins, on the
gubernatorial canvass, printed elsewhere
in this paper, is timely and significant,
coming, as it does. from one who, as its
writer intimates, has not always agreed
with Col. Fuller on questions at issue, and
who therefore writes from a standpoint un-
influenced by personal considerations.
| What Col. IIaskins says in regard to the
local feeling in Col. Fullers support is put
in strong and emphatic language. 1t is
strictly true, and it will be read with inter
est by Republicans in other parts of the
state who may have been led to believe
that Col. Fuller's home support is entirely
perfunctory, lacking in genuinencss and
enthusiasm. While it is a fact that the
people of Brattleboro and the other Wind
ham county towns would like to see one of
their own citizens fill the governors chair
for the next two years, and that from
feeling of local pride they would support
any fit and reputable man of their number
for the place, it is not true that this fur
nishes the only or the main reason for the
support now given by them to Col Fuller.
They know the record of Col. Fuler's
life, which from boyhood has been spent
almost entirely in Our midst They know
that, with the world all against him, as it
is against every poor and untutored boy,
and with no weapons but his own hands
and brain, he has made place for himself
as one OF the leading manufacturers of the
country. has attained no mean rank as an
inventor, is a close student in science. in
the literature of his own craft and profes-
sion, and in general affairs. They know
that he has shown himself in the most
tangible and effective way possibility lib
eral gifts of his own time, work and sub
stance-a friend Of the young and of their
! higher education. They know that he is a
! true Nermonter, intimately identified with
the interests of the state and anxious for
| their future development and promotion.
| They know that he is highminded man,
interested by natural taste and endowment
in those things which make for good citi-
zenship, good government and the uplift-
| ing of the community in which he lives.
| They know that a man does not make this
kind of a record for himself without hav-
ing within him, as an essential part of his
makeup, personal qualities which are in
dependent of fortuitous business connec-
tion or a lucky turn of material affairs
1t is because they know that Col Fuller
has proved the possession of qualities like
these, and because they know that he
would bring to the duties of the guberna-
torial office mature business experience,
unstinted energy and enterprise, and gen.
! uine and earnest desire to adoIn the Office
and serve the people of the state accepta-
| bly,, that his fellow-citizens OF Brattleboro
and Windham county give him sincere and
hearty support in the pending canvass. 1t
has not been the policy of Col. Fuller ;
friends in his home community to dignity
the wanton attacks and the mean-Spirted
attempts at personal detraction which have
been visited upon him, by undertaking
their answer in detail. These attacks have
killed themselves by their own falstv and
bitterness. II is to be said, however, that
no grosser slander has ever been visited on
any candidate than the charge that Col.
Fuller's campaign is a campaign of money,
and that his candidacy rests solely on the
fact that he happens to be man of gener-
Gus means. There are few civilized COM
munities in which it would be thought de-
rogatOry to a prominent citizen that he had
made money by devoting his time and la
Dor to building up the largest industry OF
its kind in the world, giving employment
to half thousand men who form in them.
selves a body of upright and intelligent
citizenship which is the pride of the town
as is the case with the Estey Organ com,
pany and its workmen today.
Col. Fuller will be the next governor OF
Vermont, his home support in the prelim
mary canvass will be hearty and spontan
eous, he will poll the full vote of his HON,
constituency when election day comes, anC
in due time he will prove to the people o
the state that their confidence in him ha
not been misplaced