News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-09
state polItIos-Press Comments.
from the Brattleboro Phoenix

liiG Iui1 NOOC vi Ills IiOIll6 COISDlluGuCO
when election day comes, and in due
time he will prove to the people of
the state that their confidence in him
has not been misplaced.
From the Hardwick Gazette.]
If anything were needed to prove
~conclusively thatthe Republican boss
es of Vermont have organized a pol
itieal machine, that the machine is in
perfect operation and that the boss
es have the people by the throat and
have mapped out their work for their
next decade, quite recent events
would assure the truth of the asser-
ton. For instance. The editor in
chief of the Burlington Free Press,
collector of customs Benedict has,
with Col. U. A. Woodbury., very evil
IDENTIFY become a party to a trade by
which the ticket this year is to be
Fuller and Stranahan, next year
Woodbury. and somebody else, and
next time Fletcher and a selected
running mate. By that time, six
years from now Mr.. Stranahan will
be the object of a Spontaneous up
rising by the people. We have been
repeatedly advised of this within the
past two months, but have hesitated
to credit it. The course of the Free
Press, however assures the liability
of it. Lately there has been an in
creasing sentiment in favor of Hon.
E. B. Taft of Burlington for Lieut..
Governor, and Mr.. Taft has been re-
ceiving some solid backing, but the
Free Press brushes away his candi-
dacy, declares that he his only joke,
and insists that the ticket must be
Fuller and Stranahan. We honestly
believe this to be the most gross and
bare faced insolence that the people
OF Vermont were ever called upon to
submit to. VIII the great mass of
the party in the face of such plain
evidence that they are being made
fools of consent to be bound and
gagged, or will they get out from uu-
der the load?
From the Free Press.
Vermont honors her soldiers who
fought for the Union, and no time
since the war have the Republicans of
Vermont failed to accord at least one
of the five State offices which are
elective by vote of the freemen to a
veteran soldier. For many years
years in which the State has given
some of it's heaviest Republican ma.
iorities- it has been their practice to
give either the first orsecond place on
a ticket to a soldier. Now we all
want Vermont to roll up one of her
heaviest majorities this year. VIII it
be wise, with that end in view, to
nominate a ticket without a Union
soldier on it? Mr.. Fuller, as it is snow
conceded, will head the ticket. He is
not a veteran. The State treasurer
and secretary of state, who will be
renominated, were not soldiers. OF
the candidates for auditor O. accounts
no one was a soldier. 1t is not to the
discredit of any of these gentleman
that they did not bear arms for the
Union; but it SO happens that they
did not. If there is to be a soldier on
the ticket, then, it must be on the
second place. Disappointment on
the part of many voters, that the
GoverHorship IA not accorded to a
one-armed veteran, two years ago,
cost the State ticket thousands of
votes. The soldiers are not asking
for q soldier at the head of a ticket
this year; but how would they take
it if a good soldier, who is also re-
spected and trusted in civil life, were
to be rejected for the second place, in
order to crafty the personal ambi-
ton of a citizen who has no war rec
ord? The convention will not be
likely to do anything of the kind
and it would be well for all who are
anxious to see a full vote and a big
majority, to take consideration to
which we have called attention into
the account. No risks should be run
this year, andnone will beif a veteran
is nominated for Lieutenant-Goyer-
nor.
[From the st. Johnsbury Republican,
The Burlington Free Press all of q
sudden takes a tender interest in the
welfare of genial and popular
Secretary of State, Chauncy w.
Brownell, and does not want Hon. Z.
B. Taft for Lieutenant-Governor lest
it might hurt Chauncy's prospects.
burlington will present Mr.. Brown
ellis name for reelection as Secreta-
ry of State and does not wish to ask
for any thing more" Passing over
the question why, if this is the case, I
the Free Press was yelling so Justify
for Auditor Powell up to a recent
date, W. would like to say that when
Mr.. Brownell made his first run, a
couple of years ago, the Free Press
didn't itake any marked interest in
him, as Mr.. Brownell well remembers, !
and it's sudden solicitude is very fun
ny. But as a matter of fact it will
make not the least difference in the
world if the Burlington delegation or
for that matter the whole Chittenden
county delegation are opposed to
Mr.. Brownell. He will be renomina-
ted just the same-and he will deserve
the compliment. And that will be no
reason whatever why the Lieutenant
Governorship should not GO to Hon.
E. B. Taft.
(From the Mortified News
Largely through the efforts of his
militia comrades, together with the
imDrudent course of the Rutland