Vermont Daily Transcript

Lamoille County Senatorial Contest.

The Senatorial Contest in Lamoille, as the readers of the TRANSCRIPT have been advised, has been very bitter. The two most prominent aspirants for the position, George W. Hendee and H. H. Powers, are young men of fair ability, and the County would be well represented with either of them in the Senate. Notwithstanding the bitterness of the contest, it was understood that whichever party was successful in Convention the other would abide the action of the Convention. The Hyde Park Newsdealer, which has advocated the claims of Mr. Powers with much earnestness, advised this. Mr. Hendee, received the nomination in committee: and after the nominations had been reported in Committee the following creditable proceedings were had :

Hon. H. H. Powers then addressed the Convention as follows :

"Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Committee, I beg your indulgence a moment to enable me to offer a motion, that I trust will meet your unanimous approval. We have passed through a long and sharply contested canvass, which has culminated in the action of your Committee just now announced. The contest has called out the largest gathering of the freemen of Lamoille County ever assembled in County Convention. Although there have been criminations and re-criminations that have occasioned much ill-feeling and angry discussion, yet let us now once again unite our divided forces and salute the action of your committee with the unanimous ratification of the Convention, and let the going-down of to-day's sun draw around the animosities of the canvass the curtains of oblivion. To this end, sir, I move that the nomination of Mr. Hendee be made unanimous."

This motion was most heartily and unanimously carried.

Mr. Hendee was then called out, and spoke as follows: "As my friend Powers has said, this has been a hard-fought and desperate struggle, with the result just announced. Therefore, allow me to tender to the people and my friends my warmest thanks and heartfelt expressions of gratitude for this expression of favor. My politics are Grant and Colfax and the Lamoille Valley Railroad. I have put myself into the harness, and shall never leave it until the road is a success or a total failure. Allow me to thank you again, gentlemen, and assure you if I am elected I shall serve you faithfully, honorably and openly."