St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-08-11
REPUBLICAN RALLY.
A Good Attendance, with Strong Speech
es and Stirring Music.

eS ana SURFING MUSIC.
For a gathering of which so little
notice was given, the republican
rally at Music Hall on Monday
night was a success, and the cam
paign may be said to have opened
auspiciouslv in this section. The in
spring music by the band. the pre-
sence of the stars and stripes with
their Harrison and Reid" supple
ment, the effective patriotic cam
paign songs by Mr.. Maxham of
Brattleboro, and the loyal sentiment
of the speakers of the evening, all
tended to create an enthusiasm
which indicated a lively canvass for
big majority next month.
Hon. Henry c. Ide presided over
the meeting, and General Stewart L.
Woodford of New York was the
speaker of the evening. Major Jo-
siah Grout and Secretary-of-State
Brownell occupied seats on the plat
form.
In his Introductory remarks. Mr..
Ide called attention to some issues
which the democrats at one time re-
garded as alive, but which are now
very dead-notably the "billion dol
lar congress" cry, the tyranny" of
Thos. B. Reed, and the terrible Nc
Kinley bill. The speaker emphasized
the fact that democratic extrava-
gance in the late lamented congress
had killed the first issue; that the
alleged tyranny of Reed had proved
an excellent thing for the country in
estoring the power of the majority
in congress; and that the splendid
effects of the Mckinley bill, felt
throughout the entire country, had
used up that prominent Issue" of
the democracy. They had promised,
he said, to clean out that "noXious"
tariff measure as soon as they got a
chance at it, but they had done no
such thing-they had dared to do
nothing but fire a few pop-guns at
the bill. Mr.. Ide said Vermont re-
publicans did not need converting to
republicanism, any more than Chris
tians needed converting to Christian
ity, but it was a good idea to have
revival occasionally and get warm
ed up to the work in hand-and this
was what this meeting was for.
Mr. Markham sang a song based on
Salisburv's recent notable statement
that free trade was noble but rot
business-like," and then Gen. Wood
ford was introduced.
The speaker began by congratu-
lating democracy and the whole
country on the fact that congress
had finally adjourned-that the cir
Gus was finished and the lights
blown out. He congratulated the
democrats on their recent victory"
in Alabama, where their majority
had been cut down from Ill 900 to
about Ii 700, and said that, in view
of the results in that state last week
he would advise them to drop the
force bill as an issue Reference was
made to the fraudulent democratic
methods in Michigan, Wisconsin and
New York, and Gen. Woodford urged
the Vermont republicans to come
out in such force in September as to
rebuke these methods.
Gen. Woodford spoke strongly in
support of an honest dollar as well
as an honest ballot, and was out
spoken in his condemnation of free
trade principles as enunciated and
upheld by the democracy. He char
acterized free trade as natural out
growth of secession, and said that it
was by no means democratic idea,
since Andrew Jackson, the exponent
of democracy, was a protectionist.
The speaker argued strongly in fa-
vor of protective tariff as beneficial
to all the business interests of the
country.
The address was listened to by a
large audience, and was frequently
interrupted by applause.
The political ball has begun to roll,
and Caledonia county republicans
should spare no effort between this
and September to roll up a rousing
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