News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-05
: Republican County Convention.

gates present. Hon. L. P. Poland,
of Waterville, was chosen temporary
chairman, with G.. M. Powers tempo
rary secretary. On motion of Hon.
George Wilkins, of Stowe, the tempo
rarv organization was made the per-
manent one.
Judge Poland on taking the chair
made speech in which he reviewed his
life in Lamoille County, telling how he
was the first lawyer admitted to the par !
here, how the height of a lawyers amDI- |
ton was to reach the highest tribunal,
the Judgeship, and how he had succeeded
in so doing. He alluded to his removal
from the county in 1850 ana then Sald
I'm coming back to this county there
aremany things thatmake it pleasant and
many things that make it unpleasant,
while at the same time there is kind OF
sadness attached to it. My cOntempOr-
aries during the time | lived here are
nearly all gone. l can see few here
among this assembly. Most of these
men have grown up since. Many have
moved away, but the great mass of them
have moved over the silent river.
always dreamed kind of dream that
when l got through with more active
life | should seek Lamoille County for
my final days; and l am very glad to again
be citizen of Lamoille County, and so
[ expect to be the remainder of my life. "
He then referred to the Republican
party putting down the rebellion and
the excellent financial condition of the
country which was brought about by
the Republican party, and said: Not
WithStanding the great success of the
| Republican party in dealing with all
these things, at the last election we
failed in this and the country has gone
over into the hands of the Democratic
administration. There was consider
able body of Republicans that said We
| Republicans were not perfect and so
they turned in and voted with the Dem
OcratS. There was another body who
enlisted in great moral cause and they
said the Republican party was not as
| good as it ought to be, and they also
| Joined in with the Democrats; and 1t
was by a mere shaving that the Demo-
cratic party came into power, and
think to the great detriment of the
country. | have no other feeling IN this
matter except that had the Republican
party been kept in power it would have
been for the good of the nation"
He alluded to the present depression
in business circles, the labor troubles,
and claimed it was the direct result OF
| the aScendency of the Democratic party
into power. Capital was afraid to trust
the administration it had no confidence
in it. Had we gained our candidate IN
stead of Mr.. Grover Cleveland, we should
have escaped all this confusion and the
country would have been in more pros !
porous condition. He ridiculed civil
service reform as carried out by the |
Democratic party, and said there was
not one Democrat in thousand who |
was at heart in sympathy with it. The |
question of reducing the rate OF interest
in this State as suggested by the Demo- |
cratic candidate for governor, he said |
would not work, and made the following |
illustration :-"my little farm that is |
down in Waterville is right there and If |
get any benefit from it that is right |
there, but if l have thousand dollars |
| can loan it anywhere. Money is a |
thing that will go where it finds its best |
market. If a man has money to invest |
he can send it out west, where land can
be bought for S1.25 per acre. Now sup
pose we adopt this suggestion of Mr.. |
candidate Shurtleff if you can imagine |
such a thing. and they pass a law that |
nobody be allowed to take more than |
three per cent. for money, how many |
farmers in Vermont would be willing to |
invest their money here provided they |
could send it off where they could get |
seven, eight, nine, or ten per cent? 1t |
might have this good effect, it might |
prevent anybody from borrowing money |
at all and that might be pretty good
thing.n
Mr.. Poland concluded his speech as
follows 1.-The Republican party is now |
out of power, but we are not going to |
stay out of power. Just as sure, in my |
Judgment, as another election comes, if |
the Republican party is not perfect and |
if the man in nomination is not perfect, |
they are so near perfect that we shall
gain the day. We have something to do |
yet We have liberated millions of |
people who have been nothing but pI O.
perty and given them a liberty to vote.
The Southern people give no heed to this
matter; they are prevented from eXer-
cising their right; they are frightened
to it or shot to death; but the time is
coming, and / believe is near at hand, |
when this right of suffrage that we gave
them is to be enforced and made a real
thing. Another thing we have got to
do: Since the Democratic party came |
into power they have turned base coin |
erS. They are plllng up millions per |
year of these 75-cent dollars. The public |
debt is to be paid off in this deprecated |
money. The men who came in when |
the country was in peril, when it was a |
question of doubt whether the country |
would ever be able to pay the debt, came
in and laid their money on the altar,
they have now been compelled to be
satisfied to be paid off in this money
supposed to be honest money"
On motion of Gov. Hendee the chair
appointed the following committee on
resolutions q. w. Hendee, Norris
town; George Wilkins, Stowe; R.
W. Hulburd, Hyde Park; W. H.
Parker, Cambridge; Joseph Brown,
Inlxy a 4
P. NJ. the convention reassembled, and
Mr.. Hendee, chairman of the COM
mittee on resolutions, reported the
following resolutions, which were adop-
ted -
ResolUed,-That as Republicans, we re-
and achievements of the party to which
we belong, and especially do we point to
the following of its great acts
That it overcame the great rebellion
and restored United Nation.
That it abolished the barbarism of hu-
man slavery and made millions of free
citizens of those who had been held as
property.
That it lifted the immense burden of
debt impaled upon the country by the
war, so 'skillfully and mantully that the
VI GIc nave |
been fully maintained without severely
burdening the people.
RESOLVED, That the mission of the Re-
publican party will not be fulfilled until
it has established throughout the whole
country L
Not only the right, but the actual and
real opportunity of every citizen to freely :
and safely cast his vote according to his
own choice and judgment, and have the
same received and honestly counted. To !!
restore the money of the country to an
honest basis.
RESOLVED, THAT we condemn the con-
duct of the President of the United
States in the wholesale use of the veto
power in vetoing pension bills, and also !
in removing Union soldiers from office.
Resolued, -That we fully endorse the
resolutions passed by the Republican /
State convention held at Montpelier June 1
16, last.
Mr.. Wilkins, of Stowe, introduced ]
the following resolution, which was i
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ResolUed,- in the judgment of this \
the promotion of Republi- L