The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-19

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scend only to sons of Vermont to the
manner born.
The Waterman and Journal does not
accept this view of the governorship.
This paper has espoused the candida
ture of John G. Mccullough, for the
reasons it has already given. The OBJ
jections our correspondent raises to
candidate not "home grown" cannot
apply to Gen. Mccullough. In the
first place he was not born in New
York and he has never been
citizen of that State. Soon after
attaining his majority and enter
ing upon the practice of the law
he went to California for his health.
He helped to keep that State loyal to
the Union when the southern States
were seeding and the secessionists
were trying to draw California and
the whole Pacific coast into the mael-
strom of rebellion. 1t was a service
of vast national Importance which Nc
Cullough rendered the State and the
nation in that perilous emergency. Cal
iforniaus gladly accepted him as citi-
zen, and elected him twice to the Legis-
lature. For four years he held high
State office, and no question was lais-
ed as to what particular State of the
Union gave him birth. He is still
held in grateful remembrance and
high honor in the State of his adop-
tion.
While yet young man Mccullough
returned to the east and took up his
residence in Vermont. He has been
citizen of no other State excepting
during his brief residence in Califor-
MIA. If he has wealth, he earned
every dollar of his riches, just as the
Woodworking people of Vermont who
have acquired a competency have
earned their money, by the exercise
of his Godgiven abilities. He began
at the bottom of the ladder, both in
the matter of riches and personal ad-
vancement and has trod every rung of
the way upward. Through his expe-
riences in life, as we'll as his native
democracy and natural sympathies, he
has as warm fellow feeling with the
average hard working Vermonter as
any man in the latter class can have
with his associates-and possibly this
human instinct is warmer.
Whatever may be the case with any
other candidate in the pending can
vass for the governorship Mccullough
at least is not the man who has been
"a nearly life long resident of another
State. :" For generation he has re-
sided continuously in Vermont, invest
ed his money and engaging here in
large and varied business enterprises
which have been of great advantage
to the State from the day his residence
began here his personal as we'll as real
estate has paid taxes to Vermont; he
has invariably voted in Vermont at
State and national elections, and prob
ably with as great regularity as the
citizens of the State at large he has
been present at and voted in the an.
nual meetings of his town.
What is there in the record of this
man that should disturb the patriotic
sensibilities, or wound the pride, or
offend the honor of the Vermonter
most sensitive and punctilious in all
the matters of his States exaltation?
Why should this man be denied the
full fruition of citizenship to whose
every duty he has been as loyal as
the most irreproachable of the "home
grown" product?
But it is said that Gen. Mccullough
spends the most of his time in the
city of New York. Do the persons
who maintain that he has only sum-
mer residence in Vermont know any
of the facts of the matter? Do they
know that the truth in the case is
grossly misrepresented? Do they know
that during the greater part of the
year as much of his time is spent in
Vermont as by any native born man
of affairs in the State? That for the
rest Of the year he is at Bennington
nearly every week, where are his
business headquarters, which are open
the year round and to which his mail
is customarily addressed. This objec-
ton, in respect of Mccullough, can
be honestly made only by people un-
familiar with the truth. With any
other person the cry of YORKER"
millionaire, railroad magnate,"
is the incendiary scream of the dema-
gogue.
And what other answer but this can
be made to the insinuation that but
for his riches Mccullough would never
be thought of for the governorship?
Was it the riches of this man, but a
few years past his majority and just
over the threshold of his DrOfesSiOn