Show VICE PRESIDENT EDMUNDS the senate elected their presiding and ver sensible selected georgef edmunds with butlin tie caucusing and electioneering electioneer ing in this the display ed foreit er foresight and moie judgment aban has been one on irn ilir occasions boie Go ie edmunds of vermont was born at richmond the same state february 1 1828 received a bublic school education and the instructions of a pralo studied and practiced law senator edmunds public life as a state legislator in the year 1854 and seivel until 1859 in 1861 and ca ho was a member of the state of vermont senate and as ts offices pi tempone temp oie and was appointed to tho united states sen ato as a republican to fill the vacancy caused bv of senator solomon toot ind took he atas elected by the state Legisla for the term march 4 1869 and has since been re elected three times to 1879 bo was a member of the election and his term of service tt S senator will empire march in edmunds is said to bo tall with a large frame and a student s stoop to his broad shoulders H s hands are laige he has a good sized foot and a biff head with a broad full arid high forehead eyes area piercing grey undril heavy ee bio iv and bis nose is large and slightly inclined to bo roman such in brief is the description of vermontis Ver monts great senator from a common school student who was industrious dust rious and zealous in his studies to the second angle t position in the government and possibly po sibly before 1886 around we may see him occupying tap the presidential chair to this advanced theory thero aie plenty in utah ivady to scout the idea but it must bs remembered that while the senator gained great noto nety as the of ho anti polygamy be also gained public faaoi ind esteem as a lawmaker law maker a and a gentleman tho as vaults made upon him because bo is an eleni to polygamy and its baso are and uncalled for mr edmunds feels that be 13 discharging a duty involved upon him as a cabre tabre of his constituents and if ho gains distinction by doing bis duty in the face cannot be held albao when the question of duty is aken into being as be was the author of the anti polygamy bill did not qualify him or give him dence colleagues collea for the position he his reached it was his qualifications ficat ions s a statesman and a bailia montanan men together with his manliness and legal at placed him and abea will fisl ll 11 publican convention of 1881 1 |