News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-06-04
Is Morristown stiekney or Grout?

Is MOrristOwn Stielney or Grout?
This question of candidates in the
race for Vermont's Governors chaiI
is something that the people of this
town have very shortly got to tackle
The caucus is to be their opportunity
to express a preference in this matter
and if there are voters who have nc
decided preference as between the two
candidates, let them look at the
points to be considered and then de-
eide intelligently which shall be their
choice. Both are good men, easily
capable of doing honor to themselves
and the position they seek.
But Morristown should, and of
course will, in the coming caucus,
elect five delega ties, who will support
either one or the other in the State
Convention to be held two weeks
from to-day in Burlington.
In Mr.. Stickney we see an able,
youngerly lawyer and politician
combined, one who has learned to
aspire to be Governor by and through
the fact that for so cOnsidera BILE
number of years he has in one capaci-
ty and another been attached to, or
a part of the Legislative machinery
at Montpelier, and it will be found
that the Stckney support in nearly
all localities is, as it is here seen to
be, rallied under the leadership of
those who have been as he has,
blest with job at Montpelier, dur,
ing the past session or sessions, and
have in one way or another become
slightly obligated to him through
favors or recognition received, just
as naturally making them Stickney
men as can be. There's nothing to
be said against Mr.. Stickney, and the
writer would be 10th to say it if there
was, and we may add that so far as
he figures as the candidate of the
younger element in the Republican
ranks, which isn't far, we should
naturally be in sympathy.
On the other hand Major Grout is
a representative Vermonter in every
sense of the word. Mature in thought
and Judgment, he is quick, alert and
ready, with long experience and
abundantly qualified. A soldier of
the Union, carrying bullets, to-day,
received on the battle field, but most
of all, for some say this soldier bust
ness must be allowed to count
againt him-a point with which we
cannot agree-he is farmer, largely
engaged in the everyday duties OF
the farm life, fully in sympathy with
the farmer of Vermont in all his
most urgent needs or desires, allied
with The farming interests in every
particular. The farmers of this State
have been calling for long time for
a farmer Governor-now is their OPP
Prtunity, will they grasp it?
lSome of the larger towns like Bur-
gton and others, the centers of
political pot-boiling, and not in
sympathy with the masses that hold
Che plow-and might hold the reins
of the State if they would-may sup
port Stickney, but We predict that
the larger number of the smaller
towns in the rural communities, this
town with the rest, will be found sup
porting Major Josiah Grout, the
farmer-soldier candidate for Gov.
ernor. Come out to the caucus,
farmers of Morristown, and let your
voice be heard for a man, who as
Governor, will represent the masses
the most thoroughly.
The fact that Josiah Grout, a
farmer and representative Vermont
er, is so unfortunate as to carry the
honorable record and wounds of an
ideal American volunteer soldier, a
fact that he by no means banks on,
should not, and cannot rightly be
harped upon to his disadvantage by
the opposition.
Secure your tickets in season for
the Grout band wagon, which falls
into line just a little in the rear of
the Mckinley chariot.