The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-25
THE FIRST GUN.

FLAG-RAIsING AND ENTHUSIASTIC DEMoNsrRA-
TIoN AT THE CAPITAL-sPEECHEs by CAP
TAIN u. A. WOODBURY., FRANK PLUMLEY,
ESQ, AND HON. JOHN NJ. THURsToN.
Old-liners and young republicans turned
out en- mdSSe Monday evening to lay the
foundations of campaign that will com
pass the desired republican majority in this
state at the September election, and sue
Ceeded in putting in a basis for a super
structure that shall represent this locality's
quota of Governor Proctor's requisition.
The republican club met at its head
quarters in the Reed building on Main
street, and, headed by the band, marched
through the open ranks of crowds lining
both sides of State street to the place of the
demonstration. A flag of magnificent pro-
portions, bearing the names of Harrison
and Morton, was run out at about half
past seven o'clock between the Ellis and
Hubbard buildings, to the tune of Columbia
Gem of the Ocean, and amid the cheers OF
the assembled spectators. The crowd had
largely increased by the announcement in
the course of the afternoon that Hon. John
NJ. Thurston of Omaha, Neb, temporary
chairman of the Chicago convention, would
be one of the speakers in addition to Cap
tain U. A. Woodbury., candidate for lieu-
tenant-governor, and Frank Plumley, Esq,
one of the delegates to Chicago, previously
advertised.
II. A. Huse, Esq, introduced the speak
ers from the balcony of the Ellis building.
Captain Woodbury. made an earnest speech
on the true greatness of the party, the
issues of the tariff and the surplus and
scored the enemy for his sins of omission
and commission. His empty sleeve bore
eloquent testimony to the fact that he knew
what he was talking about when he touched
on the war history of the democratic party.
He was followed by Mr. Plumley, who made
the tariff issue the burden of his speech
Facts and statistics were marshaled in for
midable array against the democratic doc
trine of free-trade. The righteousness of
keeping the duty on sugar and removing it
from salt as concession to the demand for
untaXed food was humorously illustrated.
The difference between tariff for protection
and tariff for revenue with incidental pro-
lection was facetiously exhibited by stating
the difference between going down stairs
on purpose and falling down. The fallaCy
of low prices resulting from free-trade was
clearly shown. The beneficial effects of the
protective system in actually producing low
| prices and building up American industries
| were vigorously sketched. happy picture
of the condition of the American workman
under the protective system was drawn and
he showed that the election of Harrison and
Morton meant the continuance and increase
of the blessings that have followed a Just
and adequate protection of American in
dustry. Mr.. Plumley's pertinent hits and
! eloquent passages were loudly cheered.
Mr.. Thurston was greeted with applause
| born of eXpeCtanCe aroused by the fame of
his name as prominent in the proceedings
of the Chicago convention and president of
| the Nebraska branch of the national league
of republican clubs. He stated the issue in
! strong, incsive phrases. He presented the
geographical divisions of the tariff dis
| cussion, showing that in the West the free
| trade idea is advocated with open hostility to
! the manufacturing interests of the East, but
| in the East it is presented in more guarded
terms. The real animus of the issue is
! manifest in the means employed by the
| administration at Washington to secure the
passage of its tariff bill. From the COM
mittee reporting the measure men of pro-
| nounced views were excluded. The demo-
| cratic members of the house were threat
ened by President Cleveland with the loss
| of patronage among their constituents.
| This pressure was brought to bear in en-
| forcing the idea of the presidential free
! trade message. The speaker presented the
alternative of voting for the nominee of the
! Chicago convention, gentleman, or for
Grover Cleveland for gallant soldier or a
man who sent his substitute; for a states
man or three hundred pounds of innocuous
! desuetude. The stronghold of republican,
! ism, where men raise the combined products
| of agricultural and manufacturing indus
! tries, was contrasted with the haunts of
| democracy, where they raise cane, cotton
and hell, and especially Texas the truly
democratic state of wckedness, the land of
the tarantula and cactus, the cowboy and
train-robber, where the infant is sucked
not at the fountain of nature, but at the
muzzle of self-cocking forty-four caliber
bulldog revolver In drawing the contrast
between the present ideas of the different
sections, the story of the vote taken at An
Jacksonville to ascertain the presidential
preference of the prisoners and their dis
position to continue the war was graph
ically told. After strong presentation OF
the republican nominees, the speaker re-
ceived an ovation of rousing cheers from
the crowd, whom he had brought uI
through a speech much longer than i
seemed.