Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-06-07
State Politics.
The Peoples Ticket.

, night and broad foundation. tn,
candidate has wide and strong pop
ularity through the State: nobody
. can doubt that. This it as it should
be, and we have only TO look into the
case of the second place Oh the ticket
! The avowed candidates for the lieu.
tenant governorship are Lincoln and
Bates of Caledonia county, Mansur OF
Essex, and Vail of Windsor county
The two first named are, apparently,
certain TO 20 into the convention with
support only from their own locali-
ties, if they go in at all, and to have
hope of winning only as clark horses"
after Vail and Mansur have killed
each other off. The real primary
struggle, AT any rate, is promised be-
tween Mansur and Vail. In regard
TO the latterit is urged, upon one hand,
that he Is a farmer, that the farmers
want him, that they feel dissatisfied
from their previous exclusion from
office and ought to have "a show, :"
and upon the other that a farmer is
no bVtter than anybody else. that class
politics should be abhored and the
whole farmer idea is all moonshine
As TO Col. Mansur. we are told one
day that he is veteran who should
be honored for his patriotism, and
/ the next, that veterans have held the
/ place in question twelve Of the last
/ fourteen years, that the head of the
ticket is to be veteran this year, that
there is no substantial reason for NOM
mating him and that il would be ''bad
! politics" to take him. This is the
kind of talk now filling the air. If
that were all, perhaps the HERALD
would be content to let the neighbors
do all the talking to the end, but, pass
ing by the matters indicated and per-
sonal considerations, there is some
thing left which should have the Sc
rious attention of every Republican.
The canvass has in the last fortnight
taken the shape Of distinct struggle
between tile politicians on one side
and the mass Of the people on the
other. OF course Col. Mansur has his
friends, who support him from per-
sonal considerations, as they have
perfect right TO do, but the real strength
of his candidacy lies in the fact that
he is supported by certain potential
politicians. They are the politicians
who like best to operate through pock-
ct caucuses and secret methods, and
year after year TO get their own tools
into office and cheat the people Not
every man Of this kind is active, but
still ''the old gang" is in the main at
work for Mansur, and il is that fact
and nothing else which makes the
candidacy formidable. The substan-
tial argument used in his favor, when
all is simmered down, is simply, 1T
is no use 70 oppose him; the political
powers want him elected"
Mr.. Walls candidacy rests upon
precisely the opposite kind of ground. /
1t is the mass Of the people instead Of
the packing politicians that
support him. This is apparent at
a glance, and the more the case is ex-
amined, the more fully will the fact I
appear And in this aspect of the 4
case, the HERALD can find no chance
for hesitation a to which candidate
to uphold. suppose that the two
men are personally equal-and, 30
far as we know, there Is nothing said
against either-the interests of the
whole State and especially of the Re
publican party demand Walls election.
The pocket caucus and secret manipu-
lation method have brought the Repub
llcan party, and with it much in the
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plorable condition. Ii is high time
that there was a change and that the
change was made in such way that
no half dozen men in the State should
undertake to say, months or years in
advance, who the people should have
for their chief officers.
1t may be Of no use" to support
Mr.. Vail, III the sense Of atiording no
nope of immediate success, and yet
De a duty. The HERALD would GER
ainly support Mr.. Vail without re-
gard 10 his chances of success for the
-ery plain and simple reason that his :,
.andidacy represents the right. But
he Vail candidacy does not appear to
he casual observer exactly hopeless. :
IN the nature of things, it would nat +,
ually be stronger in the small towns
han anywhere else, and might make
good deal of Roadway without be- !
ne seen or heard, but as a matter Of :
act. it i seen and heard in every
own, and in the newspaper offices it
: stronger than the ManSur boom,
is disadvantages. ?
7ail ought TO be the next lieutenant
.overnor because a great mass of peo- d
lie want him in the Office, and there t
good promise that he win be. a
The peoples ticket is Woodbury. c
nd Vail Rutland Herald.