Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-02-10
FOR GOVERNOR,
JOSIAH CIRCUIT, OF DERBY.


the Republican ticket to be selected
at the June convention. Among
those most prominently mentioned
are Maj. Josiah Grout Of Derby, Mr..
Stickney of Ludlow, Mr.. Hazen Of st.
Johnsbury, and Mr.. Read Of Bellows
Falls. The list is a good one, and the
affairs of the State would be in safe
hands, with either of them in the
gubernato1ial chair.
Without disparaging the merits of
either, we espouse the cause Of Maj.
Grout. We consider him the best
man for the place, all qualifications
considered. We have known him in
timatelY for more than thirty years.
We we'll remember the day, when,
encamped in Virginia, the word was
received that Lieut.. Grout had fallen
with a mortal wound. We knew of
the weeks when his life hung in the
balance between life and death, and,
later, how for months and years he
suffered most seriously from the eff
feet of the rebel lead in his hip. We
knew him in close relations as law
student. He was industrious, dill
gent, honest, faithful; devoid of i'll
habits and conscientious in all his
thoughts and dealings. We noted
his early career as a lawyer in this
county, saw his successes at the ba-
and his steady and merited growth in
1,1c of hn
moved to Chicago and engaged in his
profession, we learned of his success
in that larger and more difficult
sphere We knew of his success in
business as we'll as law in the West.
And when he determined to come
back to his native Vermont, to settle
on the homestead where his wife was
born. we saw the old farm at once re-
spond to practical as we'll as scientific
systems which he adopted. We know
of no better demonstration of what
the average Vermont farm can do
under intelligent management, than
the old Hinman farm in Derby. For
tunate that there are some men who
will put money, energy, hard work,
and brains together and will show
tn at not t1Co, as used to be supposed
to be the ultimate, but three spires of
grass can be made to grow where one
had grown heretofore. We have
known Maj. Grout as the plain, quiet,
hard working citizen in the rural vii
lage, where men are best known, and
where true estimate is made of char
acter. 1t is needless to say, so far as
this section is concerned, that he has
been a helpful, generous, public
spirited man; and very important
factor in all things that have had to
do with the welfare of his community
and his town. His worth has been
recognized by the bestowment Of the
most honored positions his townsmen
and the people of his county could
give him.
So far as his more public career is
concerned, the whole State has full
knowledge. Few men have more
often been members of the legisla-
ture; few men have been more prom
inent while in that body. Really, so
we'll has he been known, and SO well
has he filed every position Of honor
or trust, that it has been felt for sew
eral years that he possessed every
qualification which fitted him for the
position of governor. Having refus-
ed at different times, against the pro-
test of many friends, to become a can
didate, the time now seems to have
come when the wish of large ma
jority of the people of the State can
be gratified and the nomination made.
To sum up the merits Of Maj. Grout
as candidates: it can be justly said
that he is typical Vermonter; he is
a citizen whom in every worthy
sense none is better; he is a plain,
practical farmer, the pattern example
| in this sphere for his whole county
he is the successful all-round business
man, whose good sense and sagacity
make him competent to run farms in
the East and manufactures in the
West. Experienced in the things OF
the law, he measures matters of pub
lie concern with wisdom which the
average man does not possess; gifted
and graceful as public speaker, he
has the advantage of most men on
the stump, the platform, or wherever
men are controlled Or Influenced by
speech; most intimately acquaint-
ed with the men and conditions OF
of Vermont, he would possess q
knowledge invaluable in the manage
ment of the affairs of this common
wealth; deserving as any man can be
who gave his own blood in defense oi