The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-11-22
For w. p. Dillingham;.

Discussing the senatorial situation in
this State, after reviewing the various
candidates. and conditions, the Free
Press says:
Have these new elements OF the situation
changed the outlook on the senatorial ques-
ton? 1t does not seem to us that they have.
The three candidates in Caledonia and Or
leans counties will divide the support
which could not have been counted on for
Governor Dillingham;. That any or all of
them can detach enough Of his friends to
seriously weaken his strength or greatly
endanger his election does not seem likely.
His strength with the people does not de-
pend on any arts Of the politician. 1t is
based on his clean record, his recognized
ability, and his high personal character.
These traits and qualifications have long
led many OF the wsest and best men OF the
State to look upon him as the man who
should succeed Senator Morrill,, and we
have reason to believe that Mr.. Morrill, re-
garded him as his probable successor and
the one whom he would prefer to have sue
coed him.
! That one at least of the aspirants to the
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place regards him as very formidable
competitor, is evident from the attempts
which have been made to switch him off
| from the senatorial course. into the I'M
even field of the contest for the congress.
sional nomination on the east side. The
entire candor OF the efforts to persuade
Governor Dillingham; and his friends that
he had better drop the idea OF the Senate,
and try for the nomination for representa-.
tive in the second district, is put in doubt
by the circumstance that some of those
who offer this advice are at the same time
supporting another candidate for that nom
ination. But be the advice candid or other
wise it is wasted. Governor Dillingham;
will not go into the convention OF the sec
ond district as a candidate for Congress
He will go to the Legislature as a candi
date for the place of United States Senator
This may as we'll be understood, first and
last, by his friends and those OF the other
candidates. He will stand before the peo
Pile with nothing to apologize for, and in re-
spouse to clear and strong call from all
sections of the State. The only objection
to him, for the place, so far as we have
seen, is that he has had no previous appren
ticeship in the lower House OF Congress
This is an objection which would have KEEP
Edmuuds and Proctor and twenty of the
twenty-five men who have been Senators
from Vermont, since the State was admit
ted to the Union, out of the Senate. Their,
is nothing OF it. Governor Dillingham;
record, as recounted by the Montpelie
Watchman and copied in another column
is a clean and honorable record. There i
no question but that he is well equipped tt
represent his State in the Senate and t.
Sustain the best traditions of the servlc
OF the Vermont members Of that body. Ant
, without disparagement of the other candi
dates for the place, or reluctance to recog
nize the good qualities possessed by each @
them, but with clear conviction that MI
Dillingham; is the best man presented TO
3 the place, believing also that he is preferre
for it by majority of the citizens who's
Judgment and choice seem TO us most Ill
biased and most valuable, this paper wi
give to him its cheerful and earnest supper