Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-03-18
The Solid Fight.
BY REV. ALFRED ]. nouon, IN BRADFORD OPINION.

By REV. ALFRED j. HoUGH, IN BRADFORD OPINION.
At Chicago in convention the solid, stod eight,
With the strength and perseverance of their old
Green Mountain state,
Proctor, Plumley and Mccullough, Estey, IJe and
Hobson, true,
Derby, Reed-the men who fashioned the victori-
thing to do.
Porter spoke for Indiana Harrison, her favored SON.
OF the spotless fame that crowned him, of the SER
vice he had DONE
Texas her voice through Terrell, seconding the
noble name,
And through Gallinger, New Hampshire emphasiz-
ed the soldiers claim.
Then through six long days the voting favored many
honored son
Set bv states in nomination, but Vermont knew
only
Sherman Blaine, Depew, and Gresham, Alger, Ali
were heard,
But Vermont made Indianas son her choice and
stirred
That's the way she has of setting down her foot and
To her duty, caring little what the other states may
Maine was broken; Louisiana, Massachusetts scat
tered fire,
Mississippi and Missouri sang like dlscordant
choir,
But Vermont knew what she wanted, struck and
held the grand key note
Harrison Indiana every time she cast her vote
Maryland and old Kentucky firted like two girls
at school,
PENNSYLVANIA and Dakota could not tell which man
should rule;
North Carolina had six lovers, Texas gave her
heart to eight,
But Ben Harrison chosen by the old Green
Mountain state,
And she faltered not moment, never altered
once her mind
Flung her flag out and stood by told Vermont is
just that kind.
Oregon and Minnesota each appeared with lovers
three,
And the names ofseven were cherished by the tickle
Tennessee.
Idaho and West Virginia, Washington, New Mexico,
Wanted something strong and noble, but just what
they didn't know;
Still amidst the wild connection, changing moods
and fierce debate,
One great rang clear and constant from the
old Green Mountain state.
Like her troops to battle marching, like her noun
tain range sublime,
Stood Vermont's strong delegation, voting solid
every time.
All the vim and grit and gameness nourished by
the little state
Seemed to fill each pulse and fibre of that sold sto
lid eight.
Proctor, standing six feet over, made the calmest
faces banch
With ''Ben Harrison" resounding like falling ava
lanche.
For his voice through that convention roared with
such terrific weight,
That it seemed Imported thunder from the old
Green Mountain state.
And at once on ssGetty forming Che was Green
Mountain SOM
Sheridan from Early wrested all the victory he had
won,
Sending him defeated, holding nothing but his
horse and spur,
Like startled creature fying through the streets
of Winchester,
So Vermont in that convention, standing firm
stand her hills,
Gathered to her side the forces of the the States d.
vded wills,
Massed and welded warning factions, gathered
strength day after day,
Kept the path victory open and sublimely led the
way,
Till her eight men in eight ballots, grew five hun
dred forty-four,
And 'Ben Harrison" last Monday, walked in thro'
the White House door,
There WELD a splendid sceptre DER nation free
and great,
Lifted into exaltation by the old Green Mountain
state.
So Vermont sends forth this greeting, hOnoring him
who was her choice,
Giving hail. and benediction, with her hearts
love in her voice.
AS she stood true in convention to her first choice
to the end,
So throughout his term of office old Vermont VIII
be his friend