The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-06-24

man of the State Committee, made a
very happy speech upon calling the
convention to order and introduced
Gen. j. G. Mccullough "a the presi-
dent of the meeting, and the choice of
the committee in that respect was unan-
imouslv confirmed by the convention
when the temporary organization OF
the convention was made permanent
Gen Mccullough s speech Wasa very the
effort and he showed himself to be a
genial and adrOit chairman lie Kept
the convention III good humor and
pushed the business.
After the preliminaries were dispos
ed CT all effort was made TO adjourn
the meeting until after dinner, but the
motion to take a recess was lost and
the motion to proceed to ballot for gov.
ernon prevailed. A committee OF five
was appointed to count the votes, and
teller from each county was appoint
ed to collect the votes. In this way the
voting was quickly accomplished and
the result soon accomplished which
made Col. Levi X. Fuller the Republl-
can standard bearer of the state during
the next campaign The vote stood as
follows: Levi X. Fuller 394, Henry
A. Fletcher 1870, Victor l. Spear 81, W.
E. Johnson 81, William Chaplin 5, scat
tering s.
The large majority for Col. Fuller
somewhat surprised those opposed to
him but was no surprise to his support
ers. Orange County's vote was divid-
ed between Col. Fuller and Mr.. Spear.
In the caucus held Wednesday morn
ing Mr.. Spear received % votes and
Col. Fuller IS, and the vote of the
County cast in the convention was
more favorable for Fuller than in the
caucus. Some who were instructed to
vote for Spear would have voted for
Fuller could they have acted their own
choice Mr. Spear is man highly es-
teemed in this county and all would
gladly dc him honor, but this seemed
| hardly to be the time to push his claims.
In Justice to Mr.. Spear as the farmers
candidate, all the votes cast for Fletch-
err and Chaplin should have been cast
for him, giving him 260 votes Col.
Fletcher ought to have been taken at
his word and not been considered
candidate. Had the farmers worked
together. Mr.. Spears chances would
have been much better. From the re.
suit we are convinced that our former
statement was correct, that some par
ties were making use of Mr.. Spear
only as means to defeat Col. Fuller.
The work of the afternoon was
quickly accomplished. There were but
two candidates for Lieut.. Governor,
Capt. f. S. Stranahan of st. Adams
and Elihu B. Taft, Esq, of Burling-
ton. The count of the votes gave
Capt. Stranahan sol and Mr.. Taft Ill,
the vote being very much lighter than
for governor, and Capt. Stranahan was
declared the nominee.
Henry F. Field of Rutland was nom
mated as State Treasurer by acclama-
ton as was also Chauncey w. Brown
ell of Burlington for Secretary of State.
There were three candidates for the
office of State Auditor of Accounts
and the vote stood as follows, viz: F.
d. Hale of Lunenburg, 81; Geo. W.
Wing of Montpelier, 227; Norman
Paul of Woodstock, "a.
A satisfactory platform was adopted
which we shall be compelled to defer
until next week for want of space.
Col. j. &. Stearns was reelected as
a member of the state committee.
EX-Gov Farnham, Col. Geo. W.
Hooker and w. W. Stickney were APP
pointed a committee to notify Col.
Fuller of his nomination and to invite
him to appear before the convention.
Col. Fuller soon presented himself and
was received with enthusiasm. He
made a capital speech and impressed
all most favorably.
Hon. Jonathan p Dolliver of Iowa,
addressed the convention in a short but |
stirring speech and the gathering broke
up in the midst of great enthusiasm.