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���RANITE neNTHLY.

A NEW HAMPSHIRE MAGAZINE.

Tfevoted to Literature, "Biography, History, and State Progress.

��Vol. X.

��AUGUST, 1887.

��No. 8.

��HON. ALVIN BURLEIGH.

��The Plymouth Record, in advocat- iiia: the choice of Mr. Burleigh for speaker of the New Hampshire house of representatives, said, —

"With all due respect to the can- didates other localities have to offer, we have positive convictions that Grafton county can furnish a speaker for the next house of representatives who will not only prove most accept- able to the Republican party and the public generally, but one who is ad- mirably equipped for the position by reason of his high personal character, his legal education, his familiarity with the law and judicial decisions of the state, and the rules of parliament- ary practice. We mean, of course, our representative, Alvin Burleigh. The approaching session of the legis- lature will be one of interest to the Republican party, not only because the choice of United States senator is to be made, but because much de- pends upon the manner in which the contest is waged and determined. It is of the greatest importance that

��fairness and harmony shall be marked features of the coming meeting, in order that there may be hearty coop- eration and united organization for the campaign of 1888.

"The choice of speaker should be regulated by the especial needs of the occasion, and it must be apparent to all that the interests of the party and the state demand for this position a man who, first of all, is fitted for the place ; and, second, one who is abso- lutely free from all entangling alli- ances and pledges, and can therefore exercise the powers and perform the duties of the office with the utmost impartialit}', without fear or favor, and with that freedom and confidence natural to one thoroughly acquainted with parliamentary rules, and accus- tomed to the methods of judicial pro- cedure."

Before the assembling of the legis- lature (June, 1887) it was early man- fest that Mr. Burleigh was the leading candidate for speaker, and at the Republican caucus he received 118

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