Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-04-22
FOR LIEUTENANT. GOVERNOR.
Nomination Of Henry M. Ballard Of
Burlington Advocated.

a correspondent writes the Burllng
ton Free Press as follows,
To the Editor of the Free Press:
Vermont deserves an able man 70
lieutenant governor. She ought 4
have man of influence and of recog
nzed ability, a man of genius as
speaker and Of tact, ana experience
as a presiding officer, man too tina
would bring something OF dignity u
the chair of the senate that the sena'
tors might feel somewhat at least, tn,
potency of his influence and the Inn
press of his character, He should b,
! a man, too, selected not TO satisfy q
class or a section, nor TO fill out the
! ticket to complete simply trade after
getting such a man at the head as Is
desired.
/ These features and characteristics
suggested are of weight any year
| They are of especial force this year
for they viii appeal 10 the voters con-
spicuously and gain votes for the
ticket when votes are important 70
send out next September, the result
to indicate that Vermont has set the
pace has blazed out the way by which
the other sister states may come to
republican victory in November.
Henry Ballard has never been an Of
flee seeker His prominence IN poll
tics has arisen largely In aiding other
candidates In convention and rally and
In advocacy of principles Of party In
campaigns for party success. Since
1865 no presidential campaign has otr
Cured I'm which his Voice has not in
this and other states sounded TO the
public ear ms republican for that
which he believed most truly repub-
lican.
But public office has claimed him
sometimes A delegate to the national
conventions of 1884 and 1883, a member
OF the state senate from rs to 80 Il
member of the lower house from 'SS
to 90 and for two years Burlington's
city attorney-to these positions one
ana all, Mr.. Ballard brought unusual
ability and force and a genius Of
high order for construction and exc
cution.
SO we'll known Is the work of Mr.,
Ballard as a lawyer that IL would seem
nothing need be said. For nearly forty
years an active practitioner az the
Vermont bar. this long record has
brought him into the courts OF every
county In the state where almost
since the beginning of his practice he
has been regarded as an attorney dan
geruus to the opposing side. His
ability on the public platform has
been carried into the court room and
down TO and including his last case
tried at the term Of Chittenden County
court adjourned this week, the argu
ments Of Henry Ballard have always
attracted more than the usual number
Of court room spectators.
A man of scholarly tastes and at
tainments, ever discriminating
reader Of books and AZ man earnest
along all the lines 10 better himself,
Mr. Ballard has shown TO advantage
that he deserved TO be, as he is. a
graduate Of the University Of Vermont
and of the Albany Law school
one of the fast thinning ranks of
The G. A. r. boys, Henry Ballard en-
listed MS private month after
IRA duation from college was commits /
stoned second lieutenant and served I
with the army of the Potomac through +
he peninsula campaign Of 1862.
4 native Of Vermont and lifelong I
with us. an upholder and an 4
idvocate ever of state advancement 1
md state development he could come +
o any office within out state or from II I
'dmlrably equipped and fully en-
lowed,
We do not know that Mr.. Ballard is
candidate for any office vet the Sc
ection of lieutenant governor, let 1t
all anywhere within the confines of
he state could reach no more fitting
nan.
More there is something of ohiiga-
ion resting upon the party TO recog-
lize somewhat effort so strenuous, so
ong exerted and so ably and so con-
picuously brought forth
II the voice of the party can this
ear speak as II would by representa-
ion to put in nomination one of its
est known and most worthy mem
ers, one certainly the equal OF any,
re are convinced II would name
Ienry Ballard,
REPUBLICAN,