The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-06-24
THE STATE CONVENTION.
Col Fuller Nominated by Large MAORI
ty.-A Strong Platform AdOpted.-Gen
McCullough's Stirring Speech.

Col. Nj. >. C0lDurn. the new member OF
the National Committee, brought an en-
tAusiastic message from that body;
every Republican is now Harrison
man and nothing but victory will satisfy
the party.
The ballot for Governor showed the
following result:
Whole number of votes. ...............67s
Necessary to choice. $40
L. K. Fuller ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ..........34
III. A. Fletcher $50
V. A. Spear. Observation-Disclosures. 81
william Chapln. ''''.'.. .......'.....
scattering ..-......'..''..., .......'........ %
F.S. Stranahan was nominated for
Lieutenant-Governor on a ballot result
ing as follows:
Whole number of votes. ............6l2
Necessary to a choice. .307
F. s. Stranahan ................... .....501
h. b. TAFT. ............n1
Both nominations were made unani-
nous.
Treasurer Field and Secretary Brown
ell were both renominated by acclama-
ton.
The ballot for Auditor of Accounts
resulted as follows:
Whole number of votes ..........56g
Necessary to a choice........ .2S5
T. u. aale. ....''............'... .......317
G. W. Wing .... Observation-Disclosures. 227
Norman Paul. .................. .............. "a
The nomination was made unanimous.
The Committee reported the following
ticket for Presidential electors: F. w.
Baldwin, Barton; John V. Carney, Ben
nington; c. NJ. Wilds, Middlebury; Ezra
A. Parks, Westford. and it was unani-
mously elected. The platform we shall
print next week. We give the speech of
Gen. Mccullough, as follows:
GEN. McCULLoUGH's SPEECH.
1t is an exceptional honor that your
committee has done me III calling me to
preside over the deliberations of the first
Republican State Convention of the year
held after the great National assembly
of the party that has adopted and pro-
mugated the platform of principles, and
placed thereon the standard bearers that
are to lead us in the coming contest. 1t
is the peculiar privilege of Vermont to
lead off in the Presidential race. 1t is
her high province as it is her proud duty
to pitch the keynote of the campaign
and to set the step in march to victory in
the early days of next November.
| For though you may, as you undoubt-
eddy WILL make wise selection to-day of
the candidates who are to fill the State
positions for the next two years, and the
wisdom of that selection will be no ordi-
nary factor in the contest, still the
world knows that the significance of
| Vermonts election in the Presidential
year consists in the fact that she leads
the column, and if the victory is sufi-
GENTLY pronounced, if the Republican
majority is sufficiently accentuated, if
her banner is full high advanced, it will
carry within its folds the inspiration to
the whole grand army that will lead the
party yet once again to magnificent
triumph in November.
And we have party and it has history
of which its members may ever be proud.
Born as it was to resist the encroach-
ments of the slave power, it stopped nor
stayed not in its logical course of promise
and performance until every bondsman
| throughout the land was made free, and
every free man voter. 1t administered
the National Government and upheld the
constitution and the laws and preserved
the very existence of the nation through
all the vicissitudes of the life and death
struggle of the civil war; aye, at cost
of a thousand of millions of treasure,
over more than 1000 battlefields, at
sacrifice of more than 100000 loyal sons,
it carried the banner triumphantly
though that war typical thenceforth and
forever of Union redeemed, regener-
ated and disenthralled." And after the
war was over it was called on to solve
problems in the council chamber only
less momentous than those it had solved
on the field. Through all the troublous.
days and nights of reconstruction 1t was
bending its mighty energies in the effort
to conserve the fruits of the war in the
new amendents to the constitution. 1t
wrote into the fundamental law the
great principal of the great declaration
and made America in very truth the LAND
of the Free"
And when the war questions were all
settled it met and has continued to meet
bravely and intelligently the new and
ever varying civil problems that have
arisen from time to time in the due and
orderly administration of the National
Government. No party has ever existed
in this country or any other that can
point to such history or boast OF such
| a glorious record. In fact its history is
the country's history for the past thild
of a century. After it carried the nation
safely through the war and over the
breakers of reconstruction, it devoted
itself to rearranging the disorganized
| finances of the country, it re-established
the public credit, brought about the re-
sumption of specie payment and put the
business of the county on the highroad-
to prosperity. All the while it was
tingeing with new hue and deeper luster
your flag 1t has added star after star to
your ensign till only the latest school
boy can safely give the number 1t has
nurtured and developed and enlarged
the grand policy of Protection to Ameri-
can industries and American labor until
it has made this country the most pros
porous and most favored that the sun
shines on to-day. Under the benign in
| huence of the doctrine of reciprocity, the
latest invention of Republican states
men, it is unlocking the best markets of
the world to the surplus products of the
| American farm and the American work
shop. 1t has opened up and settled the
great fields of the West and spanned and
checkered the whole country from sea to
sea with railroads until our granaries are
bursting and can furnish the world with
the necessaries of life.
And now under these two magnificent
and benefcent policies, of Protection and
reciprocity-the one multiplying and
diversifying our manufacturing indus
tries and enlarging our home market
the other giving us an outlet for our
surplus of field and factory in foreign
markets. am persuaded this country is
but on the threshold of greater and
grander epoch in its history than any in