News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-07-12
Press Commands.

From the Burlington Daily Newsl
There is world of good sense in
the following remark by the News
AND CITIZEN
We wish to express our disapproval Of the
sO-called mountain rule. The custom Of see
saving back and forth over the mountains is
ridiculous. Pick out the best men, no mat
ter where they may happen 20 reside, aud
the ticket will be stronger aud better.
The News AND CITIZEN was led to
give voice to its disapproval of this
childish method of administering the
politics of the State by an attempt
of some narrow-minded people at the
recent Republican State convention
to belittle a candidate because he
happened to come from a county in
which another State officer resided.
This whole method of nominating
State officers by mountain rule" or
by mere claim of locality is weak,
silly and absurd. The sooner the
Republican party abandons it the
better for the party and the State.
The so-called mountain rule" the
selection of the Gubernatorial candi-
date alternately from the east and
west side of the Green Mountain
range, is too stupid to be longer ad-
vocated or adhered TO by full grown
men.
This rule has been the means of
giving US some very weak candidates.
The " unwritten law" has often CON-
PEELED the selection of the candidate
from certain side of the mountain
regardless of his fitness, while the en-
tirely fit man on the other side of
the mountain would for some reason
be passed by.
From the st. Johnsbury Republican,
The Morrisville CITIZEN puts on its
prophetic mantle and announces that
Maj. Josiah Grout will be Governor
of Vermont in 1896. Keep cool,
brother CITIZEN. The Young Repub-
licans of Vermont will be organized
long before 1896 and they will have
a candidate of their own. He will be
a successful candidate, too, and he
will be neither a member of the ring
nor hack politician. Down with
the old FOUNDERS Give the young
men a chanceI
From the Rutland Herald
The Morrisville News AND CITIZEN nomi-
mates Josiah Grout for Governor in 1896
The Rutland Herald says that it will be
Lieut.-Gov. Henry Fletcher West Randolph
Herald.
No, the Herald has never said any,
thing of the sort. 1t has had moth
ing more than a reference to Fletcher
as possible candidate. But is the
Grout boom a new thing to the
neighbor?
From the Poultney Journal
Any Vermont sheep grower who
thinks wool should not be admitted
free, while coal, iron, lead ore and
sugar are protected by a duty, will
have a chance to protest by voting
for Woodbury. and Mansur. Don't
wait until the presidential election
comes in 1896. Protest now.
From the Farmers Advocated
The school law of this State every
now and then comes up for a scoring
at the hands of some objector, who
sees some fault in it, real or imagi-
nary, and frees his mind through the
columns of the newspaper Now as
a matter of fact, there never has
been a step taken along the line of
advance that has not been opposed.
The Introduction of labor-savlng ma
chinery was vigorously opposed, and
the railroads were fought, tooth and
nail. There probably always will be
an old fogy class who will war
against innovations and improved
methods, simply because, having be-
come accustomed to the old way,
they cling to it with a tenacity that
knows no relenting. After we shall
have had the new law long enough to
prove its benefits the very men who
now object to it will wonder how we
could have got along without it for
so many years.