The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-02-26


1867. "
In passing, is there not here matter
for note and surprise--not to say re-
Election on the intelligence and good
sense of the men of Vermont-that
this man of many strong and brilliant
parts, who in his earliest citizenship
and during his brief residence in Cali
fornia won enduring fame in that i'm
perial State, has never been called to
public office by the State he chose for
his permanent residence and which
has been his abode for a generation?
Fit 1.-THE applause of listening senates
to command" it is hard to say which
is the more remarkable, the apparent
lack of appre citation by the people of
Vermont as body, or McCullough's
modesty or indifference to public hon
ors
Gen. Mccullough became the head
of an eminent law firm in San Fran
CISCO OF his standing as lawyer,
the authority already quoted says:
"He enjoyed highly remunerative
practice and the enviable reputation
with court, counsel and client, of a
practitioner scrupulously accurate in
statement, and in every action or po
sition governed by the incest profess
sional honor"
What Gen. Mccullough may have
lacked in the matter of birthright
citizenship in Vermont he made good,
in 1871, while in the east, by marry
ing Vermont girl, a daughter of L.
w. Park and granddaughter of Hiland
Hall, former Governor of the State.
In 1878 he took up his residence in
Bennington, Vt, and has since that
time been a citizen of the State. Here
may be traced the happy elimination
of patriotic labor and association in
the times when Park and Mccullough
were working together to keep Cali
fornia out of the southern rebellion,
or from taking the initiative in a
movement to SET up Pacific coast
confederacy.
Ability and experience marked Nc
Cullough as a captain of great affairs
and great enterprises. The "pent up
Utica" of the State of his adoption
could not confine his ample powers.
Here in Vermont he early became in
terested directly in railway and other
enterprises of great benefit to the peo-
pie of the State. In these he invest
ed part of the fortune he had acquir-
ed in California; to them he devoted
his time and gave the advantages of
his wide experience. And who shall
account him blameworthy if his abili-
ties were sought-and given-in wider
fields for their full scope-as vice
president and general manager of the
Panama Railroad Co., as director
and trusted receiver and reorganizer of
the Erie railway, as president of the
Chicago and Erie railway, and vari-
Gus financial and business associations
outside of Vermont as we'll as at home,
not forgetting his dictatorship in Yer
mont's famous institution, the Ma
tional Life Insurance Company of
Montpelier, and his interest in and
contributions to the Soldiers Home at
Bennington?
The Waterman and Journal has
deemed it proper to recite some of the
facts and circumstances of General
McOullough's professional and bust
ness life. 1t is the story of man
highly qualified to represent any State
in the Senate of the United States !;
it is the story of a man whom the
Republicans of Vermont have repeat
eddy chosen to represent them in
the great national assemblies of their
party it is the story of man who has
represented his fellow citizens in the
upper House Of the General Assembly
Of Vermont it is the story of man who
has often been wise counsellor in
the State conclaves of the party, who
has maintained the iveliest interest in
State and national affairs, and whose
trenchant logic and silvery eloquence,
on the stump and in public assem-
blages, have carried conviction to the
doubling and treasured the believer,
whose bright wit and sparkling humor
have charmed or convulsed his hear
ers; the story of a man of every do
nestle and civic virtue, of one whose
democracy renders him always ap-
proachable, whose sympathies are al
ways at the service even of the hum
blest person who seeks him out
Had General Nc ullough been pro-
fessional politician, solicitous aspir-
ant for public office, there were no
need to write SO long a story to set
forth his fitness for the office of Gov
ernor of Vermont. This citizen of va
ried and pre- eminent abilities, and of
important services to the nation and
his State, may have no claim ON the
governorship, and none is put forth
tho oI I'm &c nathan on tba no nj Of tha