Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-08-27
The Speeches OF Mr.. 4. ". SmaIIey and
Judge Poland.

Pending the arrival of the Bellows Falls
delegation Hon. Il. d. Harris, president, in
troduced TO the audience Mr.. L. V. Smalley
of the New York Tribune who, though max
ing no protense 10 oratory, gave most eff
fective presentation of facts and arguments
in support of the claims of the Republican
party. Suppose, said he, the Democrats
come into power at the pending election
what do they propose to do? Democratic
doctrine, as we hear it expounded and pro-
uulgated here in New England, may not
seem to be very bad doctrine it may have
little in it that is harmful or dangerous.
But the preponderating element of the Dem
ocratic party is found in the South and West,
and its policy as national party is shaped
by the people of those sections. If we wish
to know what the Democrats will do provid-
ed they come into power, we must see what
their policy is in those portions Of the coun-
try. Nearly every Southern State has repu-
dated its debt-and this includes not alone
debts incurred during or since the war, I'M
der carpet-bag rule, but those contracted pre-
yiously in aid of railroads and other like OBJ
iects And will those whose ideas of honor
permit them to repudiate their own debts
be any more scrupulous in regard to the ma
tional debt, especially when that debt was
incurred in war against themI The speaker
also wanted TO know what would be done
with the currency, and with our national
banking system, to NEEDLE with which would
work untold injury to the country. He also
referred to the tariff question, showing its
importance in a very clear light. He replied 10
the claim made by Gen. Martin of Mississippi
that all was peace and harmony between the
Southern negroes and their former masters,
aud that they were voting the Democratic
ticket by narrating the facts concerning the
Tensas massacre, which occurred just across
the river from where Mr.. Martin resides, and
no longer ago than 1878, in which the killing
(probably accidentally of the leader of
mob of white men engaged in shooting down
negroes was made the pretext of an indscrim-
mate slaughter of the blacks by q force of
1000 whites headed by the Attorney General
of the State. Mr.. Smalley closed his speech
by brief rehearsal of the record made by
the Republican party during the twenty-six
years that it has been in power.
The Bellows Falls delegation entered the
hall during the delivery Of Mr.. Smalley's
speech, and when he closed a song was given
by the campaign glee club, followed by a
patriotic medley from the Bellows Falls band
which was one Of the brilliant features of the
evening
Judge Poland's speech evinced all his old
time force and ability, and embraced many
well-directed thrusts and telling blows. Be-
ginning with State issues, he made some sar-
castle illusions TO the local Democratic sheet
and ridiculed the charge that Vermont is lone
of the worst misgoverned States in the I'm
ion" As to the "exorbitant' salaries paid TO
State officers, he said that when he took his
seat upon the bench of the Supreme Court
the Judges received a salary of only $3.50.
That it was subsequently raised to $4,000 was
perhaps chiefly due to the efforts of the pres
| emit Democratic candidate for Governor Mr..
Phelps, and for his services in this regard he
honored him more than for any other thing he
had ever done. Gen. Hancock, said the