Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-08-29
Rutland County Republican Com
yentiOn.

met at the Town Hall, in Rutland, on
Thursday, at one o'clock p. m, agree
able to the call of the County Commit
tee. The chairman of the committee
called the convention to order and NOM
mated for temporary chairman Henry F.
LOthrOp, ESQ, of Pittsford, who was
elected On taking the chair Mr. 10th
rop addressed the convention in an earn
est manner upon the duty of Republi-
cans in the present canvass and the ne
cessity of political orthodoxy Of those
whom Republicans presented to the peO-
pie for their suffrages. The convention
was further organized by the appoint
ment of Simeon Allen, Esq, of Fair
haven, as Secretary. The temporary
organization was then made permanent.
On motion of Mr. VOse of Pittstield,
the President appointed as a committee
on credentials, Albert Vose Of Pittsticld,
George a. futile Of Rutland and Fay
cite Holmes Of Sudbury.
Henry Clark, Chairman of the Kepub-
Hcan County Committee, presented the
following statement of the action of the
committee:
STATEMENT OF THE COMMITTEE.
To the Republican Comfy Concentj0n:
The County Committee deem it due
that statement should be made to this
convention Of the causes which led to
their action in interrOgating the candi
dates of the Republican County COnvcn-
ton nominated on the 9th of June last
Soon after the convention there were ru-
mors that several gentlemen who had re-
ceived nominations were either openly
or COvcrtly opposed to the nominees Of
the National Union Republican COnvcn-
tion at Philadelphia, and at least. if this
was not true, their position upon the
political issues of the canvass was equiv
Ocal We were requested personally to
interFOgate them The committee
thought ii would be the best method to
call the candidates together, but doubted
the policy for time, or whether from
mere personal application. they would
be justified in questioning the candidates.
The position of the committee was del
iCate one, as you can all conceive, as
we'll as a very extraordinary power for
them to assume. They hoped that who
ever among the candidates might stand
in an equiyocal position, as the discus
sions Of the issues of the canvass pro-
gresscd, would see it to be their duty to
array themselves openly, boldly and
squarelv in favor of the platform and
candidates Of the Philadelphia COnycu- |
ton.
A petition was received from Brandon
suggesting it to be the duty of the Coun- .
ty Committee. to address a letter to the /
candidates, on the ticket, asking their /
position upon the Presidential question. F.
and asking for whom they should cast /.
their vote This petition was signed by
L. J. Ormsbcc and n. T. Sprague, I.
". 1t was endorsed, asking it to be .
done at once and signed by Z. II. Girls I.
void. Isaac J. Vail and F. r. Button. /.
delegates from Brandon to the Republi- /
can County Convention, held at Rutland .
on the 9th day of June last.
In obedience to that request, which |
was the only formal and written docu- |
ment presented to your committee. they .
addressed the following letter to each .
candidate on the ticket:
RUTLAND, Aug. 6. 1872.
The Republican Comfy Committee have
received request from several prominent .
gates to the Republican County COven-
tiOn, expressing IA desire that the commit
tee should call on ''all the nominees for
county officers to put themselves upon the I
record before the voters of the county as
to whether they are any Of them in accord
with the sO-callcd Liberal party. and that
this ought to be done previous to the con- /
vcntion of that party called for the 7th
inst.
In accordance with the above request.
will Won be pleased. mt your earliest con
q n IN f'f,rFy,
~ Committee of your views upon the
Presidental question, and If You are in
accord with the Union Republican party
in the support of Grant and Wilson for
President and Nice-Presidcnt.
The letters were then read and as
they have been all published in TIE
HERALD, it Is unnecessary to lay them
before our readers,
The chairman called a meeting of the
at CastletOn, on Monday af-
ternOon, August 12, at which Messrs.
Clark. Allen, Ross and johnson of the
were present. The letters of
AIessrs. Sprague, Everts, Gleason, Kel-
lOgg, Hyde, Wheaton and Ormsbee were
laid before the committee, and fully dis
cussed. Your committee unanimously
cided that no vacancy, eXising in the
ticket either from dcclinatiOn, death or
removal from the county or State. and
rs the question was one of political
policy, resolved to refer the whole cor
to the Republicans of the
county in convention, assembled for
their acceptance, and Interpretation, be-
cause the people were the source from ]
whence they received their power. and
hese gentlemen received their nOmina-
ion through delegates in convention as
'embled. The letter of Judge DuntOn
and Mr. Field were not submitted from t
he fact that they were not handed to s
% the cOmmitte until the return of the ,
chairman of the committee from the
meeting at CastletOn, but were submit
ed to the public through the press, at
he same time, with those submitted to :
he committee. The letter of Judge !
Bromley was received the next day af- G
er the calling of the convention. No
'eply has been received from George
JaprOn the nominee for High Bailiff. |
Last week portion Of the committee {
we're called together and asked to modi- f
y the call for this convention, so far as
lot to submit the whole correspondence I
which the majority of the three, who !
we're present, thought it inexpedient to a
10. +
Your County Committee trust that :
,andid consideration and prudence will !
characterize the convention, and that
he session viii be conducted with that 1
harmony and unanimity which the inter l
sts of the republican party in Rutland r
,ounty at this particular juncture and :
,erlious period of the canvass demands. =
HENRY CLARE, I
SIMEON ALIEN. i
l.. d. Ross, Q
r. W. PITTs, Y
LEONARD JOHNSON,
Republican County Committee.
Mr.. yose, from the Committee on
presented the following :
ROLL OF THE CONVENTION.
BensOn-R. D.. King, j. II. Goodrich, \