The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-06-27
The Republican state Campaign.


done its work. In the selection OF can
didates every aspirant for political
honor had fair field and no favors.
The contest in convention for the nomi-
nation to the lieutenant-governorship
was an animated one. On all sides it
was we'll led and stoutly maintained,
but was conducted with entire good
feeling. No bitterness was borne from
the political arena. There was nothing
perfunctory in Hon. Victor l. Spears
motion to make the nomination Of
Colonel Mansur unanimous. 1t was an
earnest that Hon. Homer w. Vail and
all his friends and supporters accept the
situation without reservation, and
will be first in the canvass and first at
the polls in September. Colonel Man
sur and the veterans must move in
double-quick time to keep abreast of
the 4" embattled farmers" and their al
lies among the business and profess
sional men who followed the banner of
Farmer Vail.
Hon. Henry f. Field of Rutland,
Hon. Chauncey w. Brownell of Bur
lington, and Hon. Franklin d. Hale of
Lunenburg were nominated by ac-
clamation to the offices respectively of
state treasurer, secretary OF state and
auditor of accounts, They have been
good aud faithful servants and have re-
ceived their reward of their masters.
Colonel Urban A. Woodbury. made
his fight for the headship of the state
ticket four years ago. He won, but the
bestowal of the prize was postponed for
some brief season. On Wednesday he
reaped the full frution of the seed
sown in 1890. The honor was both
ripper and more abundant in honorable
fruitage than if it had been plucked
when first he stretched out his hand to
grasp it. Time has mellowed its ripe
ness and given it the grateful flavor of
perfect maturity.
Now the republicans of Vermont
have met in convention and have
chosen their candidates and framed
their platform. The platform is broad
enough and strong enough to support
the entire voting population of the
state, and the candidates, all true men
and tried, are entitled to the suffrage
of every voter. Pending the assem-
bling of the delegates the WATCHMAN
said last week When the nominal
tons are made let the voters of Ver-
mont forgot that this is the off year in
Vermont politics and prepare to give
the ticket a rousing majority in Sep
tember." We repeat this exhortation.
Vermont was the cradle of the repub-
lican party She has never faltered in
its support. 1t is time when her
voice should be raised in wrathful re-
Duke and condemnation of the men
who have make war upon republican
principles, reversed republican policies,
and thereby changed into ruin and dis
aster the splendid prosperity builded
during generation of republican SUI
premacy. In this emergency, shall
Vermont do less in defense of republi-
can principles, in rebuke of the de-
stroyers of the national industries,
than her sisters in the North who have,
from November last until now, been
administering angry rebuke to the
power notwithstanding the national
government?
The election this state will hold in
September will be the first of the fall
elections which will be held in the
greater part of all the states of the
Union. Vermont has often set the
pace that has led to national republican
victory. In view of the great impor-
lance of the congressional elections in
November, which will determine
whether the national house of repre-
sentatives in the tifty-fourth congress
shall be cossack or republican, the men
of the Green Mountain state have quite
as important duty to perform in Sep
TENDER, quite as heavy responsibility
imposed upon them, as any that has
confronted them for generation past.
In this crisis every republican in all
this broad land, every man who loves
his country and desires to see her pros
porous and happy again, expects YER
mont to do her duty And she will
Tho EaoIav Nura