The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
Continued from 4ih narc.

~. N about to and the defeated side were ab
m from long experience to take the defeat grace
a. fully.
e. L. L. Wright of Cornwall who cast his frs
n vote for Andrew jackson, and II nephew o.
70 Sas Wright, took the floor and asked the
n convention to express an opinion on the
r subject as to whether the president of the
I. United States and the senator's should be
K elected by direct vote OF the people, but the
convention took no notice.
The first district convention was held in
= City Hall and V. A. Billiard nominated for
y candidate for Congress .1IB
The Second District convention was held
Immediately after the adjournment of the
state convention: Geo. L. Fletcher OF Chess
/. ter presided, and A. A. Omstead was secre-
;. tary. Geo. l.. Fletcher was made the nomi-
: nee for congress and made speech. A dis
trict committee was elected consisting of c.
S II. Davenport of Brattleboro, }. W. Gordon
of Barre and Il. W. Simpson of Bradford.
, The state committee as chosen by the diff
ferent county delegations consists Of. Addi-
son, II. II. Preble; Bennington. G. NJ. Wall;
Caledonia, Alexander Cochrane; Chittenden,
D. II. Holton; Essex, u. II. Linehan; Frank
lin, II. +. Brigham; Grand Isle, George
Tracey: Lamoille, Ell Stone; Orange, A. A.
Olmstead; Orleans, p. j. Farrell; Rutland,T.
III. Drawn; Washington, A. j. Sibley; Wind
ham. +. III. Holman: Windsor, III. w. Stock
er. The committee met in the afternoon and
organized with the choice of III. f. Brigham
for chairman.
The Windham county Democrats had a
caucus at the Van Ness house yesterday morn
ing. c. II. Davenport presided. w. II.
Childs was again chosen the cOunty's men,
Der of the state committee, and declined and
insisted on it after the caucus had three times
refused to accept the declination. Then +; >.
| Holman was unanimously chosen, the Bel |
lows Falls delegation taking the lead in the
selection The caucus then chose George o.
Gould for the ,county's vice-president Of the
convention and c. II. Davenport for spokes-
man.
Platform.
The Democrats of Vermont in convention as.
sembed, recognizing that past victories have
been the fruit of loyalty to the great principles
embodied in the institutions of our country by
the noble founders of the party whose adherents
we are proud to be, proclaim those principles
anew as the principles of true Democracy and
national welfare.
dent in the hope of ultimate triumph, we urge
Democrats everywhere to be steadfast in their
allegiance and to carry forward the work that is
necessary for the redemption of the country
from the evils of Republican legislation. We de
nounce the Republican party for its attempt to
deny its responsibility for the effects of that leg
islation; and assert that for more than quarter
of century, it enacted and maintained laws
whose tendency and effect have been to produce
insecure economical conditions, spbe,citing in
tabishing speculative monopolies to stie the
spirit of independent enterprise, and teaching
the dogma of the demagogue that taxation is Il
source OF wealth and not an incident of govern {
ment. !
Those laws, enacted under the excuse of a ,
war necessity, were continued after the excuse ,
was gone; to the detriment of the farmer, whose /
products they could not benefit, to the injury of
the laborer, whose employment they rendered l
to the common danger of the people C
tnat lived under a government in which the i'll ii
~ of one is the concern of all il
aThev marks of Republican rule every :,
,lvn atl In ~ i'm nj anI-I
of wealth, in the reduction of the :
number of home owners, in the favoritism
fe ' OF the
classification of the rich and the poor.
We approve of the measures proposed by the
gress for the relief of the country from unjust
ind discriminating tariff taNatiOns.
We denounce and hold the Republican party
If the country and do not allow their cOwardlv
ttempt at shifting their responsibility, as 1t is
rectly traced to the effects of the Mckinley n
ariff act, which fostered eXtravagant and reck-
ess financial business schemes to the present
disastrous results.
The Inconvenience that may result to favor
d few by the reversal of the Republican policy
hould not outweigh the great permanent and
UNIVERSAL benefits of a reformed tariff.
The pathway out of bondage may lead through
ne deep sea of Republicanism. but it ends in
We approve of the repeal of the federal cleo
on law, that insidious instrument for the de-
,ruction of the constitutional freedom of the
aot &,
The repeal of the Sherman silver law was an
chievement for which President Cleveland and
nd Of who desre the
sound currency and an honest dollar. The re-
enhance of the Republican party for its inan-
al sins was past the eleventh hour. The fore
lst of the evil consequences of the silver legis
ton of the Republican party made by Presi
ent Cleveland years before the panic of 1893 Is
ut of the many instances of the political
Judgment
adler.
We recognize the fact that the progress civil
ition has made the large nations of the world
ependent upon each other financially and we
smand a currency that shall be of its face value
every part of the globe. we believe in gold
nd silver circulating medium, and that
ey shall be made of equal value as demanded
the national Democratic platform of 1892
We urge the passage of state law taxing IN,
,ritances. Those who inherit property should
attribute to the support of the government as
ell as those who earn it.
We denounce the so-called prohibitory laws of
is state, which restrict the consumption OF ND
II by temperate people only and which actual
promote drunkenness in its most pernicious
rms. During the 40 years that these Jaws naye
creased and will continue to do so. Under
csc laws the traffic is entirely uncontrolled
ID is a constant expense to the state, while un-
II proper license system it might be regulat,
and its evils minimized and in addition would
turn large revenue, thus diminishing crate
taxation. These laws tend to debauch our
urts and their officers by making ii much less
oftabe to enforce them in their spirit than to
crety connive mt their violation ana sell I'M
unity from punishment. Finally, these laws
undermining the respect for law among our
ope by familiarizing them with the spectacle
open, unchecked and unbiased commission OF
ines by persons who would otherwise be
,ked upon q = model citizens and OF convicted
minals returning from their terms OF impris-
ment to resume their places In the community
spectacle and respected.
That in consonance with the action of other
ties, we declare IT as the sense OF TINS conyen