The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-08-28
Speaker Martin and Hon. Geo.
w. Hooker at Putney-A Blaine
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ClSNlioh pioiiiisSo W pS'N HWY oiN, "'''
the Republicans of Vermont are warm
ing up to their old time vigor and en-
thusiasm. Here in Windham county
the political cauldron is boiling, and the
indications are that the assistant DEM
ocrats, who are independent only theo-
retically, viii get into hot water before
election day. Brattleboro' is the hot
bed of these kickers, who are COM
posed of anti-Blalne, pro-Cleveland,
anti-C Cleveland, pro-Butler, anti-Butler,
pro-Redington, anti-Redington, pro-
st. John, anti-St. John, anti-monopoly,
Democratic and anti-anything to beat
Blaine men. What they lack in num-
bers they make up in wordy noise and
in preaching political morality from the
housetops. The self-assertion and the
"holier than thou" spirit which char
acterizes these Independents has served
to thoroughly arouse the Republicans
of Brattleboro', and the local canvass
will be vigorously pushed during the
ensuing week. Large Republican raj
lies HAYS been held in Windham county
during the past week, and last night
Hon. James l.. Martin and Col. George
W. Hooker addressed big meeting at
Putney. Previous to the indoor rally
a handsome banner bearing the names
and portraits of Blaine and Logan was
thrown out amid the cheers of the
crewd. Subsequently the Town Hall
was filled by an enthusiastic audience,
the meeting being presided over by
Mr.. S. W. Stowell. Mr.. Martin was
the first speaker. He discussed the
record of both parties and presented
facts and figures showing that the
prosperity which the country had ell
joyed during the past 20 years was due
to the Republican policy of protection
to American industries and labor. He
spoke at length of the professions
made by the Democratic party in its
platforms and exposed the delusions
and snares which were contained in
the planks and platforms adopted in
national conventions. In closing, Mr..
Martin alluded to the statements made
by the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernos, Lyman W. Redington, who
stumped Windham county last week.
Mr.. Redington in his speeches had pic
tured deplorable state of things as
existing in Vermont. Agricultural
and manufacturing interests were de-
pressed, the people were impoverished,
and drunkenness and vice prevailed to
an alarming extent. The State Govern
ment was extravagant, taxes were high
and the State generally was going to
the "demnition bow-wows," according
to the Democratic candidate for Cover
nor. Mr.. Martin asserted his belief
that these charges ahainst the material
and social condition of the State were
false, and in refutation of this indict-
ment of the good name and fair fame
of Vermont he adduced numerous fig
ures and facts taken from official rec
ords. He showed that since the so-callcd
good old free trade times, when the
Democrats ruled the country, farms
had greatly increased in number and
value; that farmhouses were larger and
| finer and more numerous; that cattle
and horses had greatly multiplied; that
the annual amount of the products of
the soil was larger than ever before !;
that the prices received for farm pro-
duce We're higher than in those days;
that a happy and prosperous people
made up our rural communities, and
that the larger towns were not modern
Sodoms or Gomorrahs. The people
were sober and industrious, and the
expenses of the State Government had
been gradually reduced of late years.
The administration Of the Government
was economical and the burden of tax
alton had beeu lifted from the farmer
and the laboring man by the grand list
and corporation taxation laws. The
Republican party had legislated for the
people and the friends of the prohib-
tory liquor law had the Republican
party to thank for the temperance, leg
islation that was Oh the statute book.
Col. Samuel E. Pingree, the Republi-.
can nominee for Governor, was gal
liant soldier, and every veteran should
vote for him. He is entitled to the
support of every Republican, and is
abreast of the times and in sympathy
with the policy that has made Vermont
what it is to-day. Mr.. Redington ia
vored striking from the statute book
all the temperance legislation that had
been enacted in thirty years. Mr..
Redmgton was not such great anti
monopolist as he posed for, the fact
being that he appeared for certain cor
poratiops before the Ways and Means
Committee of the House in 1882 to OPP
pose the corporation tax law.
Col. Geo. w. Hooker made logical
speech on the tariff question. He pre-
scented numerous statistics showing the
great prosperity of the country under
the Republican policy of protection to
American labor and industries. In
contrast he depicted the wretchedness
and pauperism existing in countries
where free trade prevailed. The DEM
ocratic party were free traders and if
in power would abolish our protective
tariff and impoverish our workingmen.
The establishment of free trade would
be national calamity, and the only
safety for the laboring masses of the
country who desired a continuance of
the policy of protection to home in
dustries, was by voting for Blaine and
Logan, and Pingree and Ormsbee, who
represented Republican principles.
At the conclusion of the speaking,