Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-04-14
THE GOVERNORSHIP.
To the Editor of the st. Adams Mes

On the 22nd of NJ trch letter from
Gov. Stewart Appeared in the free
Press. Isent ,aJ paper the accompa-
nying reply, which could have ap-
peared the 2Sth inst, but for some
reason is yet withheld. Therefore l
have to ask you to pub ish the COM
munication, as some of the views,
held by your humble servant, why
Col. Proctor should be our next gov
ernor.
Very truly,
April 2. 1902. JOSIAH CIRCUIT.
To the Editor OF the Free Press:
My dear Sir:
Governor Stewards letter in the
Free Press of the 22nd inst, accorded
editorial position, sounds the McCul-
Tough rally, defends the generals
candidacy, talks about newspaper
Encouragement" Intelligent, fair
minded men," 'sneering newspaper
allusions," "whistling the general
down." pretexts "false in fact" and
''claims" that "outrage the truth of
history"
Now Governor, whence all this ex-
element, all these unfortunate allu-
sions, in short all these finger point
ings and unhappy grimaces at the
advent of Col. Fletcher D. Proctor as
candidate for governor? Has he
not as good right to be candidate
as the general? No one has said nor
should say anything unkind of Gen.
Mccullough. His fitness for governor
is unquesttoned; and all that has been
said or can be said about his personal
superiority for the office he seeks, can,
with increased emphasis, be said of
Col. Proctor.
| There is however an interesting
difference at the onset of their candi-
dacies. Gen. Mccullough has been
candidate for many years with an ear
at the ground to catch the first sound
of peoples call, which he has not
J heard; and yet in his winsome way,
during all these ears, he has ingra-
| tiated himself into quite general favor
and in the last five or six years, he
has, through helpers and agents, sys-
tematically scattered all over the
state, persistently worked his candi-
dacy, as no other man in the life of
the party or history of the state has
ever done; and he has played the
pretty, SO successfully, that he has
many friends throughout the state.
This is the sum and substance of Gen.
McCullough's candidacy as viewed by
the people. On the other hand Col.
Fletcher d. Proctor, in the last two
years, has been urged by more promi-
nent men and in a more insistent way
to be candidate than any other man
ever thought of for the office, until at
last, yielding to general and most
urgent demand from all parts of the
state he has decided to enter the field.
His candidacy then, in the launching,
is different from Gen. McCullough's
and the difference is most refreshingly
suggestive. The one is a search for
the office and the other a search for
the man.
For we'll nigh year the question of
our next governor has stood between
two men, whom the people call, after
knowing all about them, New Workers.
This general, we'll advised verdict,
which Gov. Stewart labors to set aside,
is nearer right than wrong as viewed
by the people, and no doubt has had
much to do toward creating the de-
mand for Col Proctor's candidacy.
Gen. Mccullough has a summer
home at Bennington and no doubt
and the rest of each year in his pala-
tial New York residence, one of the
finest in that wealthy city. This is
just what many other wealthy New
Workers do. The town of Bennington
and many other towns in the state
have within their borders for the
summer, many men fit for governors,
whose business is mainly in New York
and who live there during the business
part of the year, but spend their vaca-
tions in these towns. The Berkshire
Hills in Massachusetts, are covered
with many such residents who are as
much citizens of Massachusetts as
Gen. Mccullough of Vermont and yet
none of them, as we have heard, have
ever undertaken to be governors OF
that statee
1t is said that Gen. Mccullough
votes and pays taxes in Bennington
but that is matter of choice and con
venience, such citizens can vote ant
pay taxes where they choose, as be
tween such a summer and winte
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