Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-01-15
OUR SENATORIAL FIGHT.

# The Washington correspondent of
the Louisville Courier Journal has
this to say in regard to the present
senatorial contest in Vermont:
n There is a very pretty senatorial
q fight going on in Vermont, more quiet
than that in New Hampshire, and at
the same time more intense. Vermont
is divided into two slopes eastern
and western. The west slope is the
first congressional district, popula-
ton 169, $40; the eastern slope is the
second district, population 1852 ,462.
Time out of mind it has been the
custom for the east slope to choose
one senator and for the west slope to
choose the other. Morrill, was from the
east; Edmunds from the west. Col
lamer lived on one slope, Foote on
N the other The latter was said to be
the best presiding officer the senate
ever knew except Aaron Burr, John
10. Calhoun and John @ breckenridge.
When Edmunds retired, Proctor, of
the western slope succeeded him.
When Morrill, died the governor did
not want to choose between Con-
gressman Grout and Ex-Gov. Dill
bingham, and so he appointed some
body else, who declined; then he ap-
pointed some other somebody else,
who accepted. The fight is between
the congressman and Ex-Gov. Dill
/ bingham.
Gen. Grout has been conspicuous
and potent figure in congress for
nearly twenty years. He is of that
strong Drained, tough fibered, stout
hearted stock that made Vermont the
soundest timber in the New England
structure. In all the warfare between
the Potomac and the James, from
Bull Run to Appomattox, Lee and
Jackson found as stubborn fighters in
A the Vermont contingent as ali the
commanders of the Federal army
Found in those opposed to them, who
eame from North Carolina Or Virginia.
Vermont is hard to set afre, but once
Rfre, she is harder to put out.
Grout is her most experienced
statesman, for Edmunds is now a
lcitizen of Pennsylvania, as 1 under
#war, and after the war he devoted
Ibis attention to politics. He was
member of both branches of the State
Legislature, and came to congress in
=1S81. 1t is universally conceded that
Washington is the best governed
city in America, and William w.
zGrout has had as much to do in shap-
Ing the government of this town,
7the past twenty years, as anybody.
For years he was on the district COM
nittee. When he was put on ap7I
Preparations it was made his duty to
prepare the budget for the District of
columbia, no small job, and a job that
Rt least two score members are always
Rnxious to pick to pieces. do not
fecall any member OF the appropria-
lions committee who ever discharged
That duty with more ability than Gen
Erout.
The race is said to be neck and
beck, and the chances are about
Bqual. Vermont has never sent a
ool to either house of congress, and,
Tor their numbers, Vermont's COM
nissioners at this capital have, for
more than 100 years, exercised a
wonderful influence on public affairs. |
rhe state gave Thad. Stevens to |
Pennsylvania, Stephen A. Douglass
10 Illinois, and Matt Carpenter to |
Wisconsin. Morrill,, as her foremost |
POLITICIAN, Collamer, Foote and Ed
bunds all exerted wide influence on
american craftsmanship. When Ver-
hont sends a man to congress she
Keeps him there. But she never sends
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