News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-03-17
Press Comments on the Governor
Question.

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Press Comments on the Governo
Question.
From the Ludlow Tribune]
If would-be Gov. Fuller expects tt
raise his boomlet he will have tC
bring it up on bottle. George W
Hooker as wet nurse will not insure
its life
From the Middlebury Register.1
One esteemed contemporary re
marks, the fact appears to be that
Coils. Fuller and Fairbanks are the bic
} toads in the puddle and that when one
conquers the other the contest will be
over. Over-the-mountain folk ap
pear to be satisfied with this state OF
affairs and view the battle with great
equanimity. Over here there is a
disposition, at least in some quar-
tiers, to regard neither candidate as
exactly the right man and to hope
for a new deal before convention
time
From the West Randolph HeraldJ
Toward both of the principal can
we entertain the highest feelings of
respect, Both are good men and
true. Both have served the state
faithfully and WELL The private and
public character of each is above re-
proach. Both would make good
Governors. But both lack personal
magnetism and the candidacy of
each, so far as this section of the
state is concerned, meets with no cor
dial Endorsement
from the st. Johnsbury Republican,
Some of the papers are saying that
the Republican has attacked" Col.
Fuller.
1t has done no such thing. 1t has
simply told the plain, unvarnished
truth about him-that he is a man
of mediocre ability, who has been
working for the governorship for
many years and is now engaged in a
last and desperate effort in that d.
rectlOn; and that there is no popu-
lar call upon him to abandon the or
gan business and assume the cares
of state. We have also said that it
would be impossible to roll up
large majority for Col. Fuller, if nom
mated, and that his nomination
would be a suicidal step for the Re
publican party to take
All this is strictly true and no one
can truthfully deny it.
from the West Randolph Herald
The best and most important item
OF news this paper has ever published |
was the article from V. |. Spear tell
ing OF the great progress Vermont
has made the last year. The little
money the board of agriculture so
wisely expended in Advertising the
Resources" not the disadvantages,
of Vermont, has borne abundant |
fruit and the result of that work will |
be more this year even than it was
during 1891. This is the direct re-
suit OF the good Judgment of Gov.
Page IN appointing young men as
members OF the board of agriculture.
From the St. Adams Messenger
The suggestion contained in an ed
itorial of the News AND CITIZEN. con-
led in this issue of the Messenger. is
deserving the thoughtful considera-
ton of every Republican in the
State.
In Vermont, as in many other
States, where the agricultural inter
ests predomnlate, the claim has again
and again been urged that the Re-
publican party, in the selection of it's
candidates for important positions.
refused a fair and reasonable recoo-
milton of the representatives of that
interest.
This belief, on the part of the farm
er, has given birth to Leagues.
: Oranges and Alliances" whose
increase in membership has, in MANY
been phenomenal, and the
result OF whose action has been the
entire overthrow of the Republican
party in several States and in giving
practical control to the Democratic
party.
In our own State, the representa-
tlves of her agricultural interests
have been loyal to Republican princi. {
pies. Farmer organizations have
oeen instituted, and flourished for a
tlme, only to be speedily wrecked {
through attempts to make them sub I
5erylent to the qualification of per-
5onal ambitions, or from internal 1
{
Early In the present campaign the s
urged upon the Republi-
IAN party of Vermont the wisdom {
and propriety of the nomination of s
! representative farmer for Govern t
Dr. 1t did not assume the right to
iictate to the Republican farmers of
uFh nf ha1 l.
pest fitted to be selected as their rep {
'esentatlve. No denial has been 6
made OF its claim that among their ,
number were many abundantly quail I
fled to creditably discharge the du I
ties of the position. s
All that the News AND CITIZEN saws
Of the character and ability of Hon.
Victor / Spear, of Braintree, will re-
,eive cordial Endorsement from those
Who know and appreciate his SER
ices to the agricultural interests of !
'ermont, of which he is, in every re- :
pect, worthy representative. +
Should the Republican farmers of :
he State unite in asking at the r
lands of the party the nomination '
# Mr.. Spear, or of Henry A. Fetch I
r, no less worthy representative of 7
heir industry, or of any, among the 3
many others, who are identified with n
{, the Messenger believes their re- +
Iuest will be needed and will result in
september in tine election of the Re- i
'ubliean ticket by a majority that n
Till give encouragement to the Re- r
ublicans throughout the country. q
The Messenger has no candidate of n
IS own. 1t will give cordial and +
arrest support to the nominee Of HI
ne State convention, but it again a
rges that the nominee shall be that a
republican who will command the h
nited and enthusiastic support of m
ne party. Of
The Maine delegation to the Re SC
ubiican national convention in Min 81
eapolis will go via Norwood and fl
re Niagara Falls route. 1t has also If
zen arranged to haye the Vermont m
'iegation, in its special ear. join the SO