Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-07-29
Congressional Politics.

In some respects it is unfortunate tina
Vermont's Congressional delegation i.
limited to the small number of two. Every
week of the sultry simmer months devel
opes one or more candidates, and the
name is already legion. Many proud
ambition is destined to be rudely shocked
ere another June passes into history.
The situation in the second district is
truly bewidering. There are already
more candidates than the people can posi-
bly, elect to office in one generation. This
is an instance where many think they have
been called, but only one can be chosen.
| In the first district there are but two
pronounced candidates, the present con-
gresham from the district, Hon. H. Henry
Powers, and Hon. G. S. Page of Hyde
Park, and which of these two will secure
the nomination is not difficult to divine
tor it pre-convention expression of opinion
amounts to any thing Powers is already
defeated, and Page has the consolation of
sure thing. The unanimity with which
Mr.. Pages candidacy is being endorsed
by the press of the state is truly remark
able. Indications are that bare two or
three OF the rs or more papers Of the state
will advocate Judge Powers denomination.
Most of the other papers, both in and out
OF the first district will endorse Mr.. Pages
candidacy with varying degrees of enthu-
siasm. We believe that the press has
voiced the choice of the people, and Mr..
Page has every reason to feel highly COM
plimented. Among the papers which have
already referred with approval to Mr..
Pages candidacy are the Cambridge Tran
script and the Morrisville News and Clti-
zen, the two papers in Lamoille county
the North Troy Palladium, the Hardwick
Gazette, the Groton Times, the Lyndon
vile Journal, the Barton Monitor, the
Newport Express and Standard, the Green
Mountain Press, the Ludlow Tribune, the
londonderry Sitter, the Wilmington Times,
he Vergennes Vermonter, the Waterbury
Record, the Bradford Opinion, the Essex
jounty Herald, the Woodstock Standard,
he Bristol Herald, the Randolph Herald
nd News, the Fair Haven Era, the Mont
elier Watchman and Daily Journal, the
'arre Daily Times and the Rutland Daily F..
Jews.
Judge Powers has the reputation of
elng man OF considerable ability and of
nlmpeachable integrity and has made J
creditable record in congress. but even t
is warmest friends are not so blind as to t
ontend that he has extraordinary ability
nd fitness, and they must admit that his
ecord has in many ways been disappoint-
lg. With his present term he will finish
IN years of service and this we contend is
,ng enough for one who in a decade has !
cen unable to demon.trate that he is pre- d
minently qualified for the duties of the f
flee he seeks for another term.
1t has been stated, and so far as we :
now not been contradicted, that in 1890 {
udge Powers stated to prominent citi- b
en OF Lamoille county that he should a
sist on Governor Stewards retirement in ).
ght years as that was the longest period e
wen a congressman in the first district Fl
r more than a generation. With the b
cord of the past ten years should Judge :
overs be allowed to lay down one rule e
r his predecessor and formulate an
ltirely different one for himself.
Governor Page is a sterling Vermonter