Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05
Enthusiastic Republicans.
Stirring Letter from Hon. l.. L. Chit-
tenden

A Stirring Letter from Hon. l.. +. Chit-
tenden
The following stirring letter on the DO
litical situation, written by Hon. L. E. Chit
tenden to the New York Tribune, has a
special interest for Vermonters Mr.. Chit
tenden is himself a Vermonter, formerly
resident in Burlington, and a register of
the United States treasury under Lincoln.
To the men of 30 years ago his sigma
ture on the first greenback issues was
familiar sight:
II have seen thirteen presidential cam
paigns. That of 1892 has two facts of pc
culiar interest. Never since 1910 has
earnest work in our party begun so early
or been so spontaneous as in the present
campaign. Never before have so many in
telligent young men volunteered for poit-
ical service. We are not vet at the end of
July. The summer heat has been oppres-
sive. National and state committees are
scarcely organized But all over the city
and in the surrounding country, meetings
have been held every weekday night for a
month. They have been well attended
Clubs are multiplying and enthusiasm is
spreading. Every night you may attend a
half-dozen meetings where the vital issues
of the time are discussed by young men
who will this year cast their first vote. l
have heard in these meetings, protection,
honest money and clean politics advocated
by these young men with an ability that
would be creditable to veteran campaign
ers. There are scores of these young Re-
publicans, now making their first speeches
for Harrison and Reid, who are perfectly
competent to expose the falaces of the
Chicago Confederate Free Trade wildcat
money platform, and to cause a fatal col
lapse even of the oracular sayings of the
great platitudinarian of Buzzard's Bay.
There is no such enthusiasm, there are
no such results for Cleveland and Steven
son. 1t would be strange if there should
be in state where the majority believes
that it does not pay to stealn
"Some are asking whether this activity
can be maintained until the election: ! an
swer yes! 1t will maintain itself. The
| people know that the election of Harrison
and Reid would insure the continuance of
the existing national prosperity, that theil
defeat would be disastrous to our farming,
manufacturing and commercial interests,
and would take from every wage-earner a
| full third of the value of his earnings.
/ hS oihlLhlN machinery VI Il
campaign has not yet been put in operation
Its usual purpose is to awaken the people
and excite enthusiasm. This year the
people are awake and they are not going
TO sleep until the victory is won. Com
mittees, clubs and societies, instead of
spending their labors in arousing the pop
ular enthusiasm, will organize and direct
it. They will put regiments of these able
young men into the field of public discus
sion. For this is to be an educational cam
paign, with the activity of 1870 the patri-
otism of the great Lincoln campaign of
1860, with an enthusiasm and promise of
success peculiarly its own. For the pros
perity of the republic is involved. God
save the republic
81. f. CHITTENDEN.
Republican club, No. $50 Fith-ave.,
July %, 1892"