St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-31
VOL. LIX---NO. 3079
DEnOCRATIC POLITICAL NEWS.


Fred Williams at the Newport Rally.-The
Free Silver Sentiment in this Vicinity
Elisha May will Bolt the Ticket.
The democratic county convention was
called to order at II o'clock Yesterday
morning by Z. H. Blossom. B. E. Bull
lard was elected chairman and J. M.
Weeks secretary.
Mr.. Bullard upon taking the chair
made an interesting speech in which he
said that the present political situation
as he looked at it was not crisis; that
the intelligence and patriotism of the
people could be depended upon to keep in
check socialism, Tillmanism or Alt
geldism. Tillman and Altgeld left no
impression upon the Chicago convention
except, perhaps, as they had criticised
the present administration. The in
fuence Of such men was due to the fact
that for the past 80 years a political
party had been in control which had
legslated for the benefit of the few to the
detriment Of the many.
There seems to be no way but to en-
dorse the candidates nominated at
Chicago. For 80 years legislation has
been in favor Of the few and the time has
now come when revolution in the at
fairs OF government as radical as it will
be peaceful will soon take place. Most
OF us before the Chicago convention were
gold men and probably are now. Mr..
Bullard said he was strong gold man
before the convention and that he talked
against the platform until he ran up
against one or two farmers VINO knew
more about the money question than he
did and then he had to change some ofhis
facts. In 1878 silver was dishonesty if
not disastrously demonetized. A silver
dollar then worth 104 cents has de-
preciated until it is now worth SO cents.
Silver was on par with gold up to "73,
when the gold standard was adopted as
an experiment, found failure and now.
In about 1877, the pinch in business
began to be felt and from that time
things have been growing worse. All
want to know the reason, and when
satisfied we will vote as our conscience
dictates. There is little something to
say about the state campaign. We do
not want to vote for man for governor
who bought up delegates. That's some
to think about. We do not want to
vote for party that is making salaries
of some state Offices twice as high as
high as they should be. We want an
economical state government.
In this campaign party lines are going
to be less severely drawn. Many old
liners on both sides have changed color.
If we endorse our Chicago candidate we
have got one of the ceanest, brightest
men ever nominated for the presidency.
He is mortgaged to no one. But there
is in the field mortgaged candidate.
Mckinley is his name and Mark Hanna
holds the mortgage. If Mckinley is
elected Hanna is the real president. The
tariff question is dead beyond recall and
the money question is the only real live
issue. The people have repudiated a
high protective tariff and Mark Hanna
yesterday admitted it to New York news
M,Lr br,,
his idea OF high protection for he is sill
yer man and always has BEEN The peo-
pie are going into this campaign with
view to investigate all sides, and in
November the question will be conscien-
tiously decided.
After Mr.. Billiards. address it was
voted to make the temporary organiza-
tion permanent and to transact all bus-
ness before making any adjournment.
In the roll call OF towns IL out OF the
II responded, and a nominating COM
mittee OF one from each town was APP
pointed as follows: St. Johnsbury, Ar
thur Randall Danville, {. S. Ranuey;
Hardwick, E. d. Dutton; Walden, s. B.
Meader; Lyndon, J. NJ. Weeks; Wheel
ock, Henry Hoffman, Sheffield, E. J. Hill;
Sutton, c. W. Willard; Waterford, Or
vile Lawrence; Barnet, A. B. Perry;
Ryegate, George Cochran; Burke, Alza
Hall,
The committee reported the following
nominations for county offices: Senators,
George B. Davis, Danville, A. c. Randall,
St. Johnsbury; assistant judges, A. B.
Perry, Barnet, d. S. Winter, Lyndon;
judge of probate, B. E. Bullard, Hard
wick states attorney, Harland B.
Howe, st. Johnsbury; sheriff, G. w. Will
lard, Sutton; high bailff, w. S. letters,
Lyndon; county commissioner, Seth P.
Moulton, Waterford; county committee,
c. B. Weeks, St. Johnsbury, George
Cochran, Ryegate, w. S. Jeffers, Lyndon,
c. S. Ranney, Danville, E. D. Dutton,
Hardwick.
The committee on resolutions, w. S.
Jeffers, E. H. Blossom, w. S. Dove, re-
ported the following, which was
adopted
Resolved, That we endorse the candi-
dates nominated at the national conven-
tion at Chicago, at the state convention,
and also thecandidates for county offices
this day nominated.
Following are the town committees
elected:
Barnet-Geo. A. Payne, M. J. Miller,
Sherburn Moore, H. K Morse, J. G. Roy.
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