Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-04-04
THE GovERNoRSHIP, BY TWO Ex-GOvERNoRS
John Stewart Makes Plea for Gen. Mccullough Which Jo-
siah Grout Replies EfectuaIy

men, whom the people call, after knowing
all about them, New Workers.. This gem
eral, well-advised verdict, which Governor
Stewart labors to set aside, is nearer
right than wrong as viewed by the peo-
pie, and no doubt has had much to do
toward creating the demand for Colonel
Proctors candidacy.
General Mccullough has n summer
home at Bennington and no doubt spends
most of his summers there and the rest
of each year in his palatial 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 summer
vacations in these towns. The Berkshire
hills in Massachusetts are covered with
many such residents, who are as much
citizens of Massachusetts as General Nc
Cullough is of Vermont and yet none of
them, we have heard, have ever under
taken to be governors of that state.
1t is said that General Mccullough votes
and pays taxes in Bennington, but that is
a matter of choice and convenience, such
citizens can vote and pay taxes where
they choose, as between such a summer
and winter home, but most anyone would
rather pay taxes In Vermont than in New
York city, because in most If not all
the towns of the state the tax rate is
much lower. A great many of our best
people are unwilling that Vermont should
establish the precedent of allowing such
summer residenters to become our gov
ernors. because they are good fellows
and wealthy and there seems to be no
other reason, for no poor man under such
circumstances would think of applying.
NT..N -. 4 ~.
Press an announcement of the election of
Gen. j. G. Mccullough of New York as
director in some railroad system. If l
mistake not | have seen in the Free Press
in the last few years several such men,
tons of General Mccullough and every
time his residence was put down as New
York. So then 1t would seem that for
business the general lives in New York.
but for politics he lives in Bennington.
You must then, Governor Stewart, excuse
the people for mistaking General McCul-
lough's home, for they have been taught
by the Free Press.
The question is not, where were you
BORN but where do you live, move, and
have your being as to all the intents and
purposes of your life. A flsh-and-game-
summer society. ter-dinner-speech. con-
vention-attendance, hail-fellow- well-met,
private-car kind of a life in Vermont does
not suffice. The life in Vermont, that
qualities for governor, is the all-the-year-
round, grandly good kind, that is swallow
ed up; business, society. politics, and all
in the well being prosperity and good
name of the state. 1t is not nativity as
much as activity, and when man so
lives and acts for thirty years, that his
nearest friends call him a New Yorker
what shall the common people call him?
Stewart, let the people have their choice
and let the state have an excellent gov
ernor That such may be the case is the
sincere wish of
JOSIAH CIRCUIT.
Derby, Vt. March %. 1902