The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-16

over the slogan that the mission Of the re-
publican party Is ended. That, with the
abolition of slavery and the settlement of
the great questions Of reconstruction which
have agitated the public mind for quarter of
a century, 1t has no further work to do. But
has the mission of your party ended2
When every citizen of the republic, be he
rich or poor, high or low, white or black,
can, with unChallenged right, cast one vote
for such men and measures as his conscience
approves, and when such vote so cast shall
be honestly counted in the tabulation of re-
Suits then you may say the mission Of your
party is approaching its end. Its mission
ended? When our tariff regulations shall
be so framed as TO impose upon the people
the lightest practicable pressure, and along
the lines of a fostering Partially toward
American industries, and upon basis that
will not only divorce our wage-earners from
hopeless competition with the pauper la
Dor of the old world, but will give to every
working-man in the land the chance to lift
himself with the wife of his youth and his
children about him, to a higher level and
broader plane in the race of life, then you
may say the mission of your party has
neared its end. Its mi ssion ended? When
every soldier who wore the blue, and the
widows and orphans of those who fell in de-
fence OF the flag against the assaults of re-
bellion shall have been paid that Just meas
ure of public reward which is their right
full due, and which our government is
rich enough, honest enough and proud
enough to pay, then you may say the mis-
sion of your party is approaching its end
Its mission ended? When that relic of
barbarism; that foul blot upon the civliza-
ton of the nineteenth century; that canker-
worm that is eating at the very vitals of our
religion that stencil in the nostrils of in.
telligent manhood, Mormonism, shall have
been, by legal methods, everlastingly cut up
by the roots, then you may say the mission
of your party is nearing its end. Its mis-
sion ended? When every anarchist who
comes here from the old world to stir up
strife among our people, to overthrow our
social institutions and to undermine the
foundations of the government itself shall
have been hanged upon the highest tree
that grows in our American forests, then
you may say the millennium has come. No,
Mr.. President, the mission of our party will
never end until all the great industrial,
social and political problems which con-
Germ the body polite have been settled
upon basis that will accomplish the highest
good to the greatest number and until the
blessings OF the most advanced education of
the widest civil and the broadcast religious
liberty shall abound throughout the re-
public from the east TO the west and from
the north to the south. Let US, then, laying
aside all our differences, close uD the ranks
and push on the column, and let the watch
word now and henceforth be, Forward"
Judge II. H. Powers was born at Norris
town, May 20, 1885, so that he is now fifty
five years Of age-in the very vigor of man.
hood. He received his education at the
Peoples Academy, Morrisvile, and at the
University of Vermont, graduating from the
latter institution in 1855. He was admitted
to the bar in 1858, and at once began prac-
tice at Hyde Park, which he represented in
the legislature in the same year. In the
following year he was postmaster, and in
1861 and 1862 he was states attorney for
Lamoile county. In 1862 he removed to
Morrisville, where he has since resided. In
1869 he was member of the council of CEN
sors and in 1870 he was "A member of the con-
stitutional convention being chairman of
the committee of the whole. He and Hon f.
j. Phelps earnestly advocated the change
to biennial elections. and it was largely
through them that it came about. Judge
Powers was a senator from Lamoille county
in 1872, and in 1874 he was a representative
to the house, of which he was elected
speaker. 1t was at this session of the legis-
lature that he was elected a Judge of the
supreme court, a position which he still
holds. He has been a director of the La
noble County Bank for some twenty years,
and for the past two years he has been
director of the Merchants Bank of ST.
Johnsbury. He is also a trustee of the
University of Vermont having been elected
in 1888.