The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-27
Governors Galore.

Through the allied efforts of Mr..
Stewart and the newspapers of Bur-
lington, Governor Woodbury. has been
entered for second race for the COVER
norship. The governor modestly pro-
tests, but the Free Press, the Mark
Tapley of "Reform at the Top" "is
not quite disposed to give up the pos
sibility of the accomplishment of an
object 80 important to the general well
fare" His excellency's unwilling
ness to enter the field doesn't cut
much ice in the contemporaries stern
and patriotic view of the sacrifices a
man should be willing to make for
the welfare of his state. Why"
queries Sweet Innocence, by Cham
plains chilly waters, "why should
not all aspirants to the governorship
see that it is for their advantage not to
cheaper the Office to which they aspire,
and agree to postpone their candidates.
for two years longer?" Why not, in
deedl
Emulating the enterprise of Stanley
Africanus in his search for and discov-
cry of Livingstone, the editor of the St.
Johnsbury Republican has penetrated
the wilds of northern Vermont, sought
out the hermit of "Clydebank, )"
dragged him from his seclusion and
put him up as candidate for governor.
For half generation Cincinnatus
CIRCUITS name had fingered in the men,
DRY of the people as misty tradition. To.
day he stands again "in the clear bright
sunlight of publicity" a "reminiscences
of law and craftsmanship and public
service permeating and illuminating his
primal distinction as ga representative
farmer"
There is Prouty of Newport, bearing
in all his physical lineaments and men
tai traits the makeup that would en-
title him to the distinction of the Rey-
nard of the Vermont bar,-he would in
deed make hustling candidate. Should
he enter the lists, all others would need
to roost high. Over in Essex county
is Judge Hobson-sedate, long-headed
and level-headed. Not so much of q
figure in street parade as some of the
Buffalo Bills of politics, but man who
in show of good judgment, sound, saw
ing common sense, fidelity to his friends
and to public trusts, will take the blue
ribbon every time. Down at Johns.
bury is Stafford, the Boy Orator of the
Passumpsic. Bright, talented, impul-
sive, chivalric in spirit, without fear
and without reproach, he has displayed
some of The qualities of knight err
rant, but with maturing years and &C
cumulating experience he will land
right side up with care. He is a good
type of the young man in politics. o.
there is his more matter-of-fact towns.
mani. Downer Hazen-farmer, lum.
herman, financier, law-maker, man Of
affairs in general, shall not the town
libraries his craftsmanship has ''pro
NOTED" plead for his recognit ion-in q
still small voice?
Over in Orange is Major Watson,
who won his military title on the en-
sanguined muster-feld, but who in rea
war might earn higher rank. He il
another good type of the young mar
who might, with profit and honor tt
the state, be put into politics. AS sen
ator in the legislature of '92, he showed
his quality and won his spurs as a goot
law-maker and stout debater. On tn,
other side OF the divide is Spear o.
Braintree, farmer sans peur ct san
reproche-the man who, by his discree
and tactful administration of the law
has actually made the belligerent dairy
men of Vermont cry for the purifica
ton Of their herds through the fire O.
the erstwhile much-abhorred tuberculir
test. In other branches of the public
service he has developed somewha
homely but an exceedingly practica
and useful craftsmanship. He is en-
titled to the grateful consideration o
his own and all other classes in thi
mountain community. Dubois of Ran