Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-05-10
GRAHAM In 1902 AND NOW.

In 1902 when Horace F. Graham was
a candidate for state auditor, Hon. O.
| H. Annis of North Troy wrote sketch
of Mr.. Graham, which was printed in
the North Troy Palladium. This char
acter sketch and prediction makes par
ticularly interesting reading at this
time, as Mr.. Graham is now a candi-
date for governor.
elected state auditor, it would bring to
that Office not merely a man of mature
| Judgment and wide experience in the
practical and business affairs of life /;
but as well, a lawyer, sound and alert,
with ready grasp and comprehension
of the intricate and important work
before him.
"He is forty years of age, and was
educated in the common schools and at
Craftsbury academy, after which he
fitted for college with Mr.. Dakin st
st. Johnsbury and then graduated at
Columbia college from the schools of
political science and law in the class of
1888, and was admitted to the Vermont
bar in October of the same year.
Since his admission he has been en-
gagged in the active practice of his pro-
fession at Craftsbury. AS counsellor,
trier of cases, in all the varied duties
of a general practitioner, he has always
acquitted himself with marked credit
and success. evidencing his breadth
and comprehension by the faculty with
which he has ably disposed of difficult
and perplexing matters.
"And such qualifications might be ex-
pected from such lineage, for on his
fathers side his ancestry traces back
RI 1HIS TxyhoTo fhOu oA from, Tor
setshire, England, to Greenwich, Conn.,
and he is descended on his mother 5
side from the Stuart, Brock and Har-
vey families who came from Scotland
and settled in Barnet and Peacham.
His mother. Lucy Fairbanks SWEET,
was the daughter of Robert SWEET,
who was the manager of the Fairbanks
Scale Works until his death; and of
Sarah Stuart, daughter of John Stuart
Of Barnet.
GAS a legislator, Mr. Graham was a
member Of the House of 1892, serving
as chairman of the committee on state
and court expenses and was a member
of the committee on revision of bills.
He also introduced and advocated the
measure that finally resulted in the re-
vision of the statutes in 1894. He was
again a member of the House Of 1900,
at which session he was chairman of
the committee on corporations, mem
Der of the committee on rules, revision
Of bills and judiciary, In all these
capacities he served his constituency
and the state with manifest ability
and iu 1900 was confessedly one Of the
| foremost leaders of the house. He
was presidential elector in 1900. and
has been states attorney for Orleans
county since 1898. being once reelected.
That he has discharged the duties of
this important office with eminent abiI-
ity, fairness and fidelity is unques-
| toned.
GAS business man it may be said
that he is member of the firm of Ste
vens, Graham & Kinney at Hardwick
and of the firm of Graham & Skinner
at Craftsbury. Both of these concerns
do very creditable business, and his
connection with them is such as to give
him a knowledge of commercial and
business life. 1t is indicative Of the
regard in which he is held by the PEG
pie of the town where he has liveG
most of his life, that he has been elect
ed to nearly all the Offices within their
gift, such as moderator, town agent
and town auditor, for several years.
"The friends of Mr. Graham urge that
the spirit Of fairness ought to prevail
i'll this contest and they remind the
public Of the fact that since 1876 only
one incumbent who has lived on the
east side Cf the state has held this
Office, and that was the Hon. F. D.
Hale Of Lunenburg.
cit is Of the highest inp0rtarca7that
the authorship be held by & lawyer.
This officer stands at the doorway OF
the state treasury. BY way of him,
enormous funds are divided and dis
bursed, and large proportion Of it is
with reference to court expenses anC
expenditures The one to have contro
Of this is a person familiar with court
proceedings and who can discriminate
between just and unjust charges ant
proper and improper bills. for it is {
matter Of common knowledge that at
tempts to render and collect such err
r0neoUs accounts are constantly made
in deceptive ways. Milton says
Laws can discover sins, but not re
move them, but lawyer, if anyone
can prevent and remove some of tn,