News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-16
state poiltios-Press Comments.
From the st. Johnsbury Caledonian.]

From the st. Johnsbury CALIFORNIAN.
Since the withdrawal of Col. Frank
lin Fairbanks of st. Johnsbury from
the Gubernatorial contest there has
been a steady and unmistakable
leaning among the Republicans in
this section towards the BrattlebOro
candidate, and we believe that Col.
Levi K. Fuller has a strong following
in Caledonia county. The movement
has been steadily gaining ground all
ever the State; he has been recOg-
nized as the leading candidate from
the start, and is now the only candi-
date with any considerable following.
Col. Fuller is man whose character
is above reproach; whose successful
business methods are to be commend
ed and whose candidacy has been
voluntarily espoused by leading Re-
publicans all over the State. We
confidently expect to see him nomI-
mated at Burlington, June p, and
we believe he will make a good Gov
ernOr.
From the Barre Leader.
"Why Wits that the Free Press should
refuse to support an honored towns
man for the office of lieutenant gov
ernor is a question not easily eX-
planned Hon. E. B. Taft is one of
the best-known citizens of Burling-
ton, is as capable of filling the position
as any man in Vermont and certain
ly ought to receive the newspaper
support of the Queen City as well as
that of the rest of the state. "
From the Brattleboro Pheaix.l
The principal development In the
governorship question during the
past few days has been the action of
the caucuses in Brattleboro, Burling
ton, Vergennes, Bristol and other
places in electing delegates to the
state convention, pledged to support
Col Fuller The unanimity with
which Col Fuller's home town en-
dorsed his candidacy will have an in
fiuence in deciding the election of dele
cation in other places. At Burling
ton, Notwithstanding that there were
rival candidates for the lieutenant
governorship, the sentiment for Col.
Fuller for governor was unanimous.
The returns from the caucuses held
thus far give Col. Fuller over 80 del
egates, with only a half dozen in
structed for a farmers candidate or
for Col Fletcher. 1t seems probable
that Col Fuller will receive the NOM
ination by reclamation.
TFrom the Hardwick Gazette.
Another beautiful and refreshing
spectacle to which the flowers of
spring are as the clods Of the valley
is that of Henry NJ Arms of Spring
field and NJ. W. Davis of Westminster
selling out the industry which they
so conspicuously misrepresent by
marching in the mud at the tail end
of the Fuller procession. For some
reason that can only be guessed at
they prefer cattle fair farmer,
sham soldier and vainglorious mil
litary pretender, q man who cannot
wear a Grand Army
badge but frequently does, just the
same, to the exclusion of honorable
and legitimate representatives of the
farmers of Vermont!
From the Waterman and State JournaL]
The farmer interest has had no
stronger, or more practical, or more
supporter, even with
in the farmer class itself, than Col.
Fuller. His services before the Legis-
Iature in 1882 in securing the enact
ment of the corporation tax law show
this; his casting vote, while Presi-
dent of the Senate in 1886, by which
be saved the board of agriculture
from humiliation, when that insti-
tuition was assailed and wounded in
the home of those who should have
been it's friends, shows this; and the
statement is further shown to be
true by many other acts of practical
and utility.
His endowment of Vermont acade-
my is a work of utility and practical
philanthropy. He has bought the
school farm, erected buildings thai
are models of farm architecture,
stocked the farm with blooded ami
mails, devised and put into practical
operation a scheme of study and
labor that enable the boys of YER
mont to get good academic educa-
ton and work out the cost, acquir-
ing meanwhile habits of order and
thrift, and gaining ideas of system
attic intelligent industry
Col. Fuller is a close student, par
of industrial questions, and
the intensely practical strain in his
nature is Illustrated by the instances
we have cited. That he is a close
student of mechanical and business
matters is shown by the prosperity
of the Estey Organ company, to
which he has contributed in a much
larger measure than has been gener-
ally understood. That he is rich
man is admitted, and if wealth, hon
estly accruing to the work of mans
hands and brains, is a crime-for Col
Fuller started at the very bottom of
the ladder and knows every round of
the way up-he should be disfran-
chised. He is however, using his
wealth well, wisely and unostenta-
tiously, and no sectarian or class
boundaries hedge in his benefactions.
He is of the people and for the people,
without distinction of class, and has
stood for the people when it required
courage and resolution to champion
their interests. His nomination
should be by reclamation, and his
election by one of the largest of YER
mont's historic majorities.