Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-04-07
THE GOVERNORSHIP.

county, since the withdrawal of DR..
Webb are advo eating the nomination
of Fletcher Proctor, and some of them |
raise the cry Vermont for Yer
monters."
Only a few weeks ago the publishers
of some of the papers which are now
insisting that only born Vermonter
shall be elected governor, were favor
ing Dr. Webb, and | am wondering
why, if he was good enough Yer
monter for them, that they now object
to General Mccullough, with his %
years residence in the state, and his
during all that tine.
1t seems to me that the spirit of
fair play, which has always been one
of the cardinal virtues with Vermont
ers, will insist that General McCul-
Tough shall not be turned down at this
late day, after having won the contest
against Dr. Webb. Is the slogan which
they raise entirely sincere? Why is
not General Mccullough a Vermonter
as fully as it is possible for man to
be who was not born in the state?
General Mccullough came to Yer
mont to reside in 1873, after brilliant
| career in California, where his serv
ices in keeping the state in the Union,
/ and his administration Of the Office Of
attorney general of the state, coupled
with his services in moulding and
shaping the crude elements which then
to a large extent, composed the socl-
ETY. of California, were so fully appre
ciated by the people of that state that
many years after he had left CalifoI
mia, history of the bench and bar of
that STATE was dedicated in the follow
ing words: "This history IS regardfully
inscribed to Honorable John g. Nc
Cullough, L. L D., now a distinguished
public man of Vermont, remem bered
as light TO the early bar of California,
and from his brilliant administration
of the office Of Attorney General,
1863 to 1857"
Since coming to Vermont in 1873, he
has been president of the Rutland &
Bennington r. r. and made it one of
the best roads in Vermont, and it is
now one of the important parts of the
Rutland Canadian system. He is pres
ident OF the North Bennington Bank,
whose stock is unpurchasable and
standing the best, is a stock holder
and active factor in the Stark Paper
Company of North Bennington and of
another mill near the New York line,
has gwen literally to the Bennington
Free Library, was member of tn e
ton, and gave literally thereto and
took an active part in its work, was
an active organizer of, and contrib
uted largely to the Stark monument
in Peru, he and his family gave to the
state a arge part of the Soldiers
home, has contributed to the Yer
gennes free library and Gill Odd Eel
lows Home. These benefactions have
never been paraded before the people.
He has three times represented the
republican party of Vermont at
National conventions, and was senator
from Bennington county for two
years.
He has never been an office seeker
either 10 his county or the state.
r LDxy oil l,
of the ablest men in Vermont, is a
genial, whole-5ouled, broad minded
man, of excellent Judgment in bust
ness affairs, great executive ability
and it is very generally admitted thai
he would make one of the very best
governors Vermont ever had.
His connection with one of the grea
trunk lines of the country has com.
PEELED him to spend small portion O.
his time in New York but from early
spring until late autumn his family
have been at their home in NORTH
Bennington, and nearly every weeE
during the winter, he has always beer
there attending to his business affairs
Ex- Gov. John w. Stewart in a letter
to the Free Press March 22nd, afte,
giving a brief outline of the life o
General Mccullough, and showing the
fallacy of the claims of his opponent
that he was not as good a Vermopte
as lives in the state says, "such il
brief outline is the man and his his
tory, who it is proposed at this late
day, when it is admitted he has wol
the field as against his then compel
itor, to whistle down, upon the pre-
text, false in fact that he is not
Vermonter. The claim is simply al