News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-05-26

| CecUiOH anu reciprocity WHICH are Une
cornerstone and the keystone of
the Republican party.
Press Comments on the Governor
Question.
[From the Bristol Herald
Another week has rolled BY and we
are still of the opinion that Col. Levi
K Fuller is the best qualified candi-
date yetnamed for the Governorship.
He is a bright, enterprising business
man, thoroughly alive to the inter
ests of the state As Governor he
would leave nothing undone to pro-
mote the interests of all classes OF
citizens.
[From the Ludlow Tribune
1t may be justly predicated of the
Tribune that it is not a Fuller paper.
| The general trend of its editorials
would tend to give the reader that
! impression; nevertheless it has no
sympathy with that warfare against
candidate Fuller, which assumes that
he is buying every newspaper or
boomer, or that these papers or
boomers are selling out, The cry of
Doodle is too cheaply made, and too
hard to prove to gain much credence
without direct proof, and the Tribune
has made no charges of this kind,
or given them credence. 1t objects
to Col. Fuller simply on the ground
of unftness, and not on the ground
of corruption or of subsidy. The
press of the state is not for sale, nor
does the Tribune believe Mr. Fuller
to be buying newspapers or men.
That he uses money, and a lot of it,
it has no doubt, but that this money
is used in corrupting men or news
papers there is not the slightest evil
dence. MIR. Fuller has a gubernato-
rial bee buZing in his bonnet. He is
troubled with official itch. These
seem to be his chief claims upon the
suffrages of the people, On the other
| hand be writes silly poetry and
makes silly speeches. He is in no
sense above his fellows, except it be
in financial standing, and yet he as
pires to leadership. The Tribune re-
fuses to follow such a leader, but in
refusing to do that, it neither supposes
him to be, nor accuses him of being
a horse thief or sneak 1t believes,
him to be the wrong man for the
Governorship of this state; believes
his election would cheaper the office;
believes thai he cannot rally the
masses to his support, and it stands
ready to state it's convictions in
plain English, but it is not ready to
join in with the opponents who can
find nothing more original to offer
than the cry of "boodle." The "Bat-
tie of Reyes Farm in itself is enough
to reveal his mediocrity. There is
no possible excuse for such dOggerel
from a man of brains The wearing
of sixth corps badge in the streets
| of Ludlow is another evidence of
this same lack of horse sense, and
these straws show the calibre of the
man. His chief weakness lies in his
own lack of knowledge that he is
weak To fall in and enthuse over
such Il man is impossible, and the
Tribune doesn't propose to try. If
the Republican party of this state,
because it has such a walk-over in
elections that any man nominated
in convention is sure to get there,
proposes to set up standard bearers
who have no elements of leadership,
they must expect harvest of disaf-
fected voters, who will, after awhile,
refuse to dance to the party piping.
Mr.. Fuller is not knave; in every
respect heis not an intellectual weak
ling, but he is unbalanced. and in no
sense a leader Why then promote
to him leadership? The Tribune can
find no satisfactory answer to It's
conundrum and is anxious to be en-
ightened.
From the Bennington Banner
The attitude of the press on the
west side of the state has been that
of waiting for the east side to settle
down on a candidate, regarding the
discussion as a matter for the people
in that locality to settle. The time
has now come when the leading cam
didate for Governor, conceded by the
east side, is ex-Lieutenant-G Governor
Levi X. Fuller, and the probability
is that no other name will be present-
ed to the convention in June We
have no sympathy with the abuse
that has been hurled at Col. Fuller's
head by remnant of the state press,
whose leader seems to be the Rutland
Herald. We leave all such journal
ism to those who think it smart
like some of our Democratic papers
nearer home. Col. Fuller's record is
before the people-he has been a fig
ure in state affairs for many wears,
and we shall heartily support the
ticket, with Col. Fuller at its head,
when the convention shall have made
it's nominations. The state conven-
ton of the Republican party can be
trusted to select ticket that will
poll full vote in September.
[From the Hardwick Gazette
Only four weeks now remain before
the Republican state convention, and
IN that time the real friends of the
party have much to do. Col Fuller
is nquestionably the leading candi-
date but would be in the minority
were the opposition to him united.
Those Republicans who oppose him
do so from an honest conviction
and belief that he is an I'M
fit candidate, and with only the best
interest OF the party at heart. They
will lose confidence in and respect for
the party if it allows itself to be leased
by Fuller. His nomination will pre-
vent some thousands of them from
voting the state ticket this fall, and
will weaken their allegiance in the
future. His nomination will split the
party to some extent, and we are adj