News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1904-05-04
For Iudas. Gsorus N. Powers.

1t is hoped that Gov. McCulloug h
may see his way clear to appoint G
M. Powers of Morrisville to fill the
vacancy that will soon be created on
the Supreme Court Bench by the
resignation of Judge Stafford. To
be sure the bar of Lamoille counts is
solid for him, and the legal fraterity
of Chittenden, Washington and
Franklin counties are also very
strong in favor of his appointment
Mr.. Powers is a man of excellent legal
ability and a leading member of the
Lamoille county bar. He has had
large experience in the practice Of
the law and is one of the best in
formed attorneys in the state. He is
man of sound judgment and a
strong advocate, and by hard work
and close study has made his way to
the front ranks of the legal profession
in Vermont. 1t is no disparagement
to the other applicants for this posi-
ton to say that in Geo. M. Powers
would be found all the attributes nee
essary for the making of judge
of great ability and Gov. McCul-
Tough can find no better man for
this place than he. The St. Adams
Messenger very justly says
Mr.. Powers is s student of law in
the unusually significant sense con-
veyed by those words when de-
scriptive of a man who has been
successful attorney at the bar for
twenty years and still does not
think he knows all the law there is
to know and is anxious to learn
more, possesses the natural judicial
temperament, and the Messenger is
pleased to believe that he also en-
Joys other and distinctively social
attributes that will enable him to
bring to the be1ch a wide knowledge
of and experience with human nature
and character, the capacity to APP
preciate conditions in real life that
are a necessary part of the elements
entering into the determination of
cases at law, and the faculty of dis
elimination between the real and
false, the probable and the improb-
able, that no amo ant of book-law
or clCistered study can supply.
George M. Powers who is the son
of ex- Judge and ex-Congressman H.
Henry Powers, was born in Hyde
Park December 10, 1861. He was
graduated from the University of
Vermont in the class of 1888, studied
law and was admitted to the bar.
He was assistant clerk of the Vermont
house of representatives from 1884
to 1888 and was secretary Of the
state senate from 1890 to 1894.
He was states attorney for La
noble county from 1888 to 1890.
In 1896 he was member of the Leg
islature from Morristown serving as
chairman of the committee on cleo
tons and as a member of the Judi
ciary committee. He was appointed
supreme court reporter in March
1902 to succeed Seneca HaseltCn, of
Burlington. promoted to the supreme
court bench.
FROM THE BURLINGTON FREE PRESS.
tribute rs significant as it is gratifying
to the numerous friends and admirers at
George M. Powers has just been paid to him
by the members OF the legal fraternity OF
Chittenden county. Forty tour members of
the bar, constituting practically all of the
practicng lawyers IN this punty have sgne1
a petition requesting Governor John g Nc
Cullongh to appoint Mr.. Powers to the
vacancy in the supreme court of Vermont
which will result from the retirement of Iu ige |
Wendell P. Stafford, whose appointment to
the position Of justice of the supreme court .
of the District of Columbia has already been +
chronicled. !
1t is not unusual for the lawyers of mans (
own county to unite in requesting his ap- !
pOintment to the supreme bench, but the
degree OF unanlmity which has Characteriz ID I
the action of the members of the Chtteuden
county bar in connection with the recon- |
mendation of the appointment of Mr.. Pow
ers IS worthy of particular note as coming
from a county other than his own This is |
in and of itself marked evidence of the high
esteem in which Mr.. Powers is held as a
lawyer and as a man by the members of his
profession, and testimony of this character
can not fail to have pronounced weight with
Governor Mccullough in connection with the
selection of Judge for the vacant nosition.