Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-07-04
LATEST NEWS.
BY TELEGRAPH.
brandon Scale Shops Burning.
BRANDON, July 4-2:30 a. m.
The Scale Manufacturing Company's
shops are on fire.
From Boston.

BosToN, July 8.
In response to call to gentlemen from
| Massachusetts, who attended the Cincin-
natl convention, to attend meeting at
the Parker House to-day, about half a
dozen gentlemen responded, including
Frank w. Bird and Frank B. Sanborn.
Preliminary steps for organizing the
campaign were discussed.
The Massachusetts delegates to the
| Baltimore convention also met at the
Parker House, and organized by the
choice of J. G. Abbott as chairman, and
Chester 0. Morse of Newburyport, as
secretary. 1t was agreed to present the
name of Daniel d. Brodhead of Brook
line, for vice-president of the national
convention from Massachusetts,; Oliver
Stevenson on the committee on resolu-
tions, and William A. Williams on COM
mittee of organization.
SPEECH OF HORACE GREELEY.
Horace Greeley was escorted to the
press room at the Coliseum by Alderman
jerks, previous to the concert, and in
troduced to lady and gentlemen repre-
sentatives After a few minutes of
pleasant conversation, in answer to a
general call he spoke as follows
1t has fallen to my lot recently, as you
are doubtless aware, to be placed in a
somewhat conspicuous attitude. That is
to say, we who work for the press, and
! live by the press, work and live in the
public sight and under public criticism
to greater degree than most people !;
and yet think to-day my position is a
little more exposed to cayil and dispar-
agement than that of most of you 1t
has been said of me q do not deprecate
| it and would not disarm criticism), but
/ it bas been said of me-and take it as a
while in the business that have pursued
/ through life, have shown myself very
1 fairly competent, very fairly dilligent
and successful, yet if | were or should
be invited into another line of life-into
different and, if you please, higher re-
/ sponsibilities-I should be found unequal
/ to them. Well, ladies and gentlemen,
/ / cannot well expect to have anything
better said of me by my friends, much
| less by adversaries, than to say that
/ had done well that which | had to do.
! applause 1t would seem a tolerably
safe deduction that he who has been do
| ing well all his life, that which he has
tried to do, may possibly, may reason
/ ably be expected to do well something
! else, if he were to undertake it. Some
| of the critics observe that, though for
myself personally, / am a tolerably hon
est and respectable person, yet my asso-
ciates are not very desirable-an unwor-
thy set. Laughter and applause l
am sorry for that, for my associates
through life have been mainly the gen
tlemen l see about me, Applause.
whose acquaintance | made while en-
gagged in preparing information for the
public press, and if my associations
were disagreeable, can hardly hope to
find better in future life than those
have had. | trust there was not meant
to say that such gentlemen and ladies
that ! see before me, have not on the
whole performed their work and dis
charged the responsibilities with reasona-
bic fidelity, with human error, with hui
man imperfection, with human faults,
doubtless, but still with fair, reasonable
human fidelity at all events. Ladies and
gentlemen, with such as you, my for
tune has been associated through life.
With such as you | viii be associated to
the end, and if the world shall say of
me in the end, He was a good printer,
a respectable publisher, an honest edi-
tor, all my ambition will be satisfied.
Ladies and gentlemen, viii tax your
attention no longsr. Applause
AT the conclusion of his speech he
was conductedto the city reception room.
A large number of politicians and few
ladies sought an introduction. In enter
ing the vast auditorium considerable en-
thusiasm was manifested The people
in the parquet rose to greet him and
these in the balcony waved their banker
chiefs in recognition. Cheers were Civ
en- by the more excitable, and few
minutes elapsed before the programme
could be resumed.