Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-09-21
THERMOMETERS VISIT MCKINLEY.

tive VermonterS, among whom were
Senator Proctor, Congressman Pow
ers, the present and incoming Gov
ernors and Lieut.. -Governors, made a
pilgrimage to Canton, Ohio. The
train left St.Albans Wednesday even
ing, Sept. 9th, and reached Canton
Friday morning The Vermonters
we're escorted to Major McKinley's
residence by full band and large
number of citizens of Canton, some
mounted and some unmounted.
The delegation was applauded all
along the line of march. When they
arrived at the house, Senator Proctor,
Gov. Woodbury., Gov.-elect Grout,
Con gresham Powers, Lieut. Gov
Mansur, Lieut.. Gov. ELECT n. w.
Fisk, with the other visitors, went in
to the study to meet Major Mckinley,
and the spokesman's address was
made by Olin Merrill, chairman of the
state committee, in very happy
speech. He said:
s'The battle in our State was won
because the freemen Of Vermont,
after full hearing and consideration
of both sides, rejected with unalter-
able determination the heresy OF our
opponents. In this action the repub-
Hcans of Vermont were unanimous
and the sense of their individual duty
in this great crisis brought them all
to the polls.
We also had the direct and active
aid of large number Of patriotic
democrats, who placed love of coun
try above party. The $4,000 plural
ity was the largest plurality ever Civ
en- any party in the history of our
State. We congratulate our country
on a result which must be a true in
dication of the greater victory to
come in November"
Mr.. Merrill was heartily applauded.
He introduced Col. George T. Childs,
who said, among other things: eve
have journeyed from our homes in
our beloved state to bring to you the
greetings of her republican voters,
because, although the issue upon
which they were called upon to pass
ten days ago transcends all questions
of personality, yet the victory won
for the cause of honest finance by
them does, in some measure, partake
of a personal character.
AS you are the first choice of a
large. majority of them, as you have
been declared the first choice Of all of
them, we bring to you something
more than tidings of political tri-
umph. aa-- rz c4als
And not alone are we permitted to
speak in the name of the republicans
of Vermont. We bring as well the
cordial greetings of 5000 free men Of
the State who have followed Loyalty,
unselfshly, manfully, proudly, the
standard Of the democratic party
through more than third of a cen
tury of uninterrupted defeat; 5000
honest, earnest, patriotic democrats
of the dear old commonwealth united
with nearly $4,000 of her republican
children in declaring as between
financial honor, the rule of law, the
safety of republican institutions, and
reputation, the dread and fear Of
revolution, William Mckinley of Ohio
is their first choice for president
Major Mckinley stepped forward at
the conclusion of Col. Child's speech
and was greeted with a storm of
cheers. He said:
''I give you welcome, generous
welcome, from an overhowing heart,
to my state, gmy city, and my home.
would be unjust to my own feelings,
and irresponsible to the kind senti-
ments uttered by your spokesman if
permitted to pass unobserved the fact
that in the preliminary contest for
t he nomination Of president the state
of Vermont gave me united vote.
The Green Mountain State is en-
deared to us all by tradition and his
tory, in song and story, but above all
in good work manifest in glorious re
suits. Whether in the days of the
Revolution, when her hardy noun
taineers repulsed the best soldiers of
Europe; in tt 3 days of the rebellion,
when her soldiers displayed the same
resolute courage at Cramptoh's Gap
Station, Big Bethel or Gettysburg, or
in the no less important and decisive
conflicts in civil life, the people of
Vermont have always been true to
the best ideals and highest obligations
of duty, and active, distinguished and
useful in every great emergency.
No one will deny to them glori-
Gus part in achieving the independ-
ence of the colonies. None will ques-
fior, tn tl,o,r did 1,o11ol, To nloooI- tho