News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-03-31
Press Comments on state Politics
TFrom the Richford Gazette.l


If the farmers of Vermont take a
proper interest in political affairs
this spring the next Governor OF
Vermont will he a representative
farmer. The available men are plen-
ty. But if William Chaplin, of Mid
dlesex, Henry A. Fletcher, of Caven-
dish, or Victor |. Spear, of Braintree,
is selected there will be no room for
fault-fnding Let the farmers assert
themselves, and in honoring one OF
their number bring honor to the
large interest they stand for.
from the Montpelier Watchman.l
Lieut-Gov. Fletcher is another
whom it is no misnomer to call a
representative farmer, and who has
record of answering devotion to
the interests of this class and the
state at large. The dominant issue
of the last state canvass will not be
forgotten. Col. Fletcher was among
those who most strenuously main
tanned that issue. Can he or his as
sociates in that canvass justify the
abandonment of that issue at this
time? Approaching this fact, like
the sincere and honest man he is, he
refuses, directly or indirectly, to
enter the canvass for the Governor
ship, and those of his true friends
who value their consistency and
maintain their honor are looking
elsewhere for their candidate. They
are not willing to lie down under the
imputation that the non-promOtiOn
issue was merely a trick designed to
exalt Carroll S. Page over Col. Wood
bury. To turn about at this time,
without excuse or warrant, and
nominate or advocate the nOmina-
ton of Col. Fletcher would be wan
ton act of frivolty whichCol. Wood
bury and his friends would have a
right to resent as an insult.
from the Woodstock Standard
The Rutland Herald having decided
that the Fuller and Fairbanks booms
are very dead, takes some JUNCTION to
itself for having, as it claims. I'M
horsed these knights single-handed.
Having thus cleared away the rub
bish, it proceeds to bring out some
candidates who will be acknowledged
to be men of liberal intellectual ca
pacity, any one of whom would do
honor to the state, should he be elect
ed its Governor.
[From the Hardwick Gazette
There are indications from all
around the field that the Fuller
light horse raiders have been slight
ly DETECTED from their rough-shod
and straightforward foray over and
through Vermont, and that they
have retreated with considerable loss
for consultation and realignment.
Their sudden and desperate on
slaught caught the people early in
the morning, before their eyes were
fairly open, but they are now in fine
condition to receive the next sOrtie
and will make short and final work
of it.
[From the Burlington Clipper.l
The Rutland Herald with its usual
modesty claims to have already
killed Col Fuller's gubernatorial
chances. The manner in which the
Herald's political dead usually come
back to earth and gain political pre-
ferment is one of the most encour-
aging features thus far noted in the
BrattlebOro statesman's candidacy.
From the st. Adams Advocated
The Governor question is still an
open one, with odds in favor of a
final union upon a farmer candidate.
The majority of state exchanges
seem virtually agreed to support the
farmer that is nominated, and in a
free convention that is a safe posi-
ton.
[From the West Randolph Herald.s
Judging by what the state press
says there is a strong undercurrent
in favor of nominating either Victor
|. Spear or Henry A. Fletcher for
Governor. Either would make a
good Governor and bring out the
full Republican vote in September
May the best man win.
From the Mid dlebury Register.l
The row over the governorship
goes merrily on. Two new sugges-
lions are made, c. A. Prouty of New
port, one of the brightest young men
in the state, who in all probability
wouldn't bother with the office could
he have it for the asking, and d. c.
Denison of Royalton, who was once
q representative in Congress. In the
meantime the Fuller boom and the
Fairbanks boom and the Spear boom
keep right on booming weekdays
and nights and maybe Sundays. The
papers over the other side, where is
the real seat of war, are bravely try
ing to live up to their mission, and
we of this side are learning much
that is fresh and interesting about
the east-side statesmen.
[From the Woodstock Standard
A contributor to the columns of
the Ludlow Tribune last week brings
Henry A. Fletcher to the front again
as the man for the gubernatorial
nomination, and the Tribune, reIuc-
family admitting the force of custom
respecting the mountain rule"
gives emphatic utterance to senti-
ments favoring a farmer candidate
of the Fletcher or Spear type. We
believe it is generally conceded by
the voters that Mr.. Fletcher has in
him the proper sort of timber and
enough of it. The question is, will
he allow the use of his name? He
certainly would never ask for the
nomination. or render any material
assistance procuring it, and he has
intimated that he didn't care for the
place. If he retracts and his friends
push him in ahead of the machines.
they will have rendered good service
to this commonwealth. Mr.. Flecth-
er has many friends in all sections of
the state who would he glad to con-
tinue their efforts to his support
From the Bellows Falls Times
The Rutland Herald commenced q
twO-column editorial on, "The State
Campaign" with the claim that the
b" leading candidacy" had been "kill-
ed, and that the assassination had
been wholly brought about" by
the Herald's work. The. Herald
grows modest as well as incorrect.
and only proof is now lacking to
make its statements acceptable
Later in the same article the Herald
affirms that "there is no bitter op-
position to him" (Col. Fuller), and
evidently in this statement totally
ignores the Sitter, the Landmark, the
Vermont Tribune, and a few Others,
which have for weeks been heaping
upon that gentleman editorial abuse
without stint and, so far as seen,
without reason. After reading the
entire article all friends of Col. Fuller