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j. w. Markham, Chapel Hill, ~ 80
w. II. Williamson, Clinton, I7S 80
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DIRECT LEGISLATION.

Relying upon the good. common
sense of the American people, and be-
lieving that a majority of them, when
uninfluenced by party prejudice, will
vote right on all questions submitted
to them on their merits; and further
to effectually annihilate the pernicious
lobby in legislation, we demand direct
legislation by means of the initiative
and referendum.
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oti
ar. p. BLAND"
ain the name Of Missouri" he said,
81 lower the standard under which We
have fought throughout this conyen-
ton and in IS place lift that of the
gliied, glorious son of Nebraska.
"Gehtlemen, we have chosen a splen-
did leader he said, and went on to
pay tribute to the Nebraskan as a
great orator, great scholar, but above
All, bearing IN his breast u heart that
throos in sympathy with the great
masses. The Democratic party would
not only nominate Bryan, but would
elect him, the Govern,r continued. and
for his peroration said: IL cat The "a
votes of Missouri for Bryan" This
action put Bryan far in the lead and
his nomination was assured.
The band slowed away in the loft
above the speakers head, broke into
the bars OF Columbia" Cannon
doomed their accompaniment outside
Probably the happiest woman in the
world at that moment was the one sit.
ting In the front row of the platform
about whom pressed noted men and
women to take her hand i'm coupratu.
latiOn. She was Mrs. Bryan.
The vote in detail was never an.
nounced. A motion to make the nom.
nation unanimous was submitted. and
though it was greeted with a YER,
loud chorus OF "no," the chairman de-
clared 1T carried, and William Jen
nings Bryan stood revealed as tn,
nominee Of the Democratic party
The announcement provoked, o
course, q repetition of the stirrin,
demonstrations.
The convention then at 3 80 O'Clock
adjourned till 8 o'clock D. M, but wber
1t assembled at that hour, the dele
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We'demand the election of United
States senators by direct vote of the
people. That each state shall be
divided into two districts of nearly
equal voting population, and that a
senator from each shall be elected by
the people of the district.
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TRANSPORTATION.

(D The government shall purchase
or construct and operate a sufficient
mileage Of railroads to effectually
control all rates of transportation on
just and equitable basis.
tb) The telegraph aud telephone,
like the postotfice system, being a
necessity for the TRANSMISSION intellig-
ence, should be owned and operated
by the government in the interest of
the people.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-05-14

Us when that was? A. TIA was, think, in
q. Can you be any more definite than that?
A. Yes; ID was in the summer time.
q. Aud during the term of the medical
SCHOOL, A. Yes; ! should think in, perhaps,
MAY or June.
q. Aud YOU were doubtless registered at
the hotel on that occasion? A. l was regis
tertd on that occasion.
q. And you think your brother graduated
AZ the medical school heIr in ~! A. l
think that was the year,
q. And il was at the close of the sum mer
term when he graduated, / suppose: A.
Yes.
Q. What was it you had on that occasion?
A. Had bottle of champagne.
Q. And the last occasion TO which you re-
ferred was when you had some cocktails
served In the parlor. Can you be more def
mite as TO the timer A. l can give you that
date.
80. Do so, please! A. That was June 10,
1888.
q. And you were doubtless registered on
that occasion? A. Undoubtedly.
Q. Which brother graduated in 'Ss? A..
Dr. Goodwin, his deposition will tell you
when the time was. pE
@. Your brother-in-law that was? A. Yes,
sir. my brOther-in-law.
@. And you say that is the young man
whose deposition was taken in New York?
A. Yes. SIR.
Q. When these cocktails were served you
in the parlor in June, 1888, / suppose they
were served in the same way, brought up to
you in glasses, brought up on a waiter A.
They were served in small bar glasses,
whiskey glasses, they were not in cocktail
glasses, but in whiskey glasses.
Q. The same kind of glasses that the cock
tails on the former occasion were served in.
A. | think so.
Q. Any recollection as to who 1t was that
served any of this liquor to you. A. Well,
remember that have had liquor served to
me in the dining room by that large head
waiter, didn't know his name then, but
understand II is De We're.
@. And is he the head waiter you refer to
when you say that the waitress called the
head waiter. A. He Is the head waiter re-
ferred to.
Q. Do you recall who It was that brought
you the cocktails on that first occasion. A. l
couldn't say anything about those bell boys;
| didn't know any of them.
q. And you have no recollection as to how
they looked. A. No recollection about that.
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FRANK ID. LAPELLE.


Another Member of the SwantOn Party.
Frank D. Lapelle Of Swanton, in deposit
tion taken at st. Adams April 1, said that
he was miller and had seen liquor drank in
the Van Ness house. The examination pro-
ceeded =
@. State the occasion? A. Well, it was in
May, 1894, in the dining room.
@. State what you were at Burlington for
that day and who were with you? A. A
party of us left Swanton to take the first trip
on the Maquam; composed of DIR. Allen,
H. W. Owen, Myron Dorman, j. A. Barney,
Homer Brown, G. E. Hall, Z. L. Lapelle and
myself.
Q. Was the liquor drank at the table where
you were sitting in the dining room? A. Yes,
sir.
Q. By whom was the liquor ordered?
A. By H. W. owen.
@. Were all the persons whom you have
named as being In your party at the table?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. OF whom did Mr.. owen order the
liquor and what did he say? A. Well, 1
can't tell what he said, but 1t was evidently
ordered of the head waiter or the person said
to be the head waiter.
Q. By whom was it brought? A. | think
1t was brought by the regular waiter, or
waitress, it was a waitress.
Q. What kind of liquor and how much
was brought? A. 1t was claret. l have
forgotten how much was brought.
@. Were glasses brought in which to serve
the claret? A. don't recollect whether
they were on the table or brought in.
O. Who of the party drank? A. All
except Dorman and myself.
@. Do you drink intoxicating liquor?
A. No, sir.
Q. Were there other persons in the dining
room at this time, and If so, how many?
A. can't tell how many; the dining room
was quite full.
Q. Do you know Gov. Woodbury. and can
you state whether he was in the dining room;
A. | have never seen the governor until
| today to know him.
@. Do you know by whom this liquor was
paid for? A. | do not, didn't see anybody
pay for 1t. Ipresume owen paid for 1t as he
| ordered it,
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RUSSELL B. FARNHAM.
Experience of a Man Who Was Clerk
for Month.

Russell B. Farnham, clerk in store at
West Cornwall, in deposition taken at Mid
dlebury April 4, testified that he was clerk
In the Van Ness house for about a month
four years ago or so. Mr.. Drew hired him
and the Van Ness and American houses
were together. The witness continued: =
@. What Instructions, if any, did Mr..
Drew give to you with reference to the mat
ter of Intoxicating beverages? A. He told
me that no liquor was sold in the house. If
any one wanted liquor, to send them over to
the American house.
@. What did you find connected with the
American house with respect to the matter
of intoxicating liquor? A. Connected with
it?
Q. Was there a bar connected with it? A.
Yes, sir.
40; Did you yourself go to the bar there:
A. Yes, sir.
@. Did you take the guests of the Van
Ness house over to that American house bar?
A. No, only once, and that was after it was
shut up. We couldn't get in.
@. What were the circumstances connected
with that? A. The fellow came In on the
night train, about II or II. He wanted
something to drink. l took him over there
and it was shut up, so he went without.
Q. Did the bar at the American house
communicate directly with the interior of
the house and the office In the interior? A.
l couldn't say.
@. Could you 90 to the bar from the office
without going out of doors? A. Yes, you
could,
@. Do you remember particular occasion
when the guests of the Van Ness house, or
certain guests of the Van Ness house, were
furnished with intoxicating liquor one even
ing, and you had to interfere? A. have
sent out after liquor-after beer-but had
no orders to. They rang the bell and | sent
a bell boy, and he came back and said that
they wanted beer. | asked If 1t was the GUS
tom to furnish it, and he said yes; so | sent
him after some. .....
@. Was that repeated? A. Yes, it was re-
peated three times that evening, and then
there was another time.
@. What was the other occasion? A. 1t
once.
O. Do you remember who the patrons
were at that timer A. No, was there only
short time, and didn't know many people.
Q.Where was this beer procured for the
party of three gentlemen A. At the drug
store across the park there-Sterns'.
Q. Do you recall how it was paid for? A..
No, couldn't say, except that think It was
charged on the register; but l wouldn't say
positively.
@. You mean minuted on the margin of
the register TO The guest? A. Yes, sir.
@. Did you ever have any instructions,
aside from what you have testified Mr..
Drew gave you, from Mr.. Clark, from Mr..
Woodbury., or any one else In the general
management Of the hotel, with respect to the
matter of Intoxicating beveragesY A. No,
not at all.
@. What kind of beer was this that was
ordered for these guestsY A. Lager.
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store, such as toilet articles, prescriptions
and the likey A. Sure.
Q. And suppose when you speak of al
lowing a commission, the commission re-
fers to those articles AS well as these other
things that YOU speak or A. Yes, sir.
Q. The instances were not so very numer-
Gus, comparatively speaking when they came
there after intoxicating liquors, were they 1;
that Is, the business that you did there-that
YOU and Mr.. Stoarns did there. the chief
business, was not selling liquor, L SUPPOSE
A. Surely not.
O. It was doing legitimate drug business
A. Yes, sir.
O.. And you had occasional call from the
bell boys for a bottle OF champagne or bot
tie of wine or bottle of whiskey? A
Yes.
Q. And YOU supposed the boys took It to
the hotel? A. don't know anything about
that, whether they took It over there or not.
| know they got It at the store.
Redirect examination by MIR. Wilds -
q. Let's see about this occasional business.
My inquiry was how frequently these trips
were when the boys came there for intOXi-
eating liquor; | understood you to say that it
would average daily during the year, is that
what you mean? 1t would average daily,
but some days they didn't come for. any in
toXicatlng liquor and other days there would
be several trips! A. Yes, mean that.
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A. don't remember how they were paid
for. We got something 10 take, and the next
morning some Of us were a little the worse
for wear. We had Il brought up two or
three times.
Q. II was ordered and brought upg A..
Yes, sir.
@. Who was with your A. Frank Sar-
gent-he lives in Boston-Will Brewster-he
lives In Middlebury-and John Hyde, who
used to live here. We had room together,
and we had some drinks brought up. / don't
remember how II was paid for.
q. You don't know how the drinks were
paid for! A. don't know how they were
paid for. don't recOect that they were
paid for at the time. They were brought in
on a server.
q. Which building was It you were
in at that timer A. At the time of the
grand lodge we were In the American house.
Q. Where did you register? A. At the
Van Ness house, but we were assigned
rooms at the American house.
z. The former OccasiOn-the 4th of July
was that In the Van Ness house? A. Yes.
recollect that, because | thought l was
smart-doing something smart. DIR. Webb's
private secretary was boarding at the house
and he carried me down TO DR.. Webb's
house and back, and being plain, ordinary
eountryman, 1t pulled me up. And then !
missed the boat at Plattsburgh and came
very near losing my job.
q. Are there any other occasions that you
recollect definitely about? A. ! always 90
to the Van Ness house, because get some
thing good to eat, and l have had something
to drink, but never unless it was brought to
my room.
Q You have had it brought to your room
at other times? A. Yes, sir.
Q. Do you remember any particular occa-
sion? A. went up there with my people to
the "County Fair" 1t was a play at the
opera house; and we had beer brought to
the room. mean by ''my people, where /
live-Judge SHADES sister. I've lived with
them IA years.
Cross-examined by Mr.. Foster the witness
said that the clerk who gave him the whskey
early in the morning was Fred Isham, and
that he did not think that he paid for 1t.
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by some one, but cannot tell whether it was
the governor, Mr.. IL. N. Clark or MIR. Drew,
| but il was by some one in authority.
| q. Aud in point OF fact you were en-
| ployed by the commercial men to assist Mr..
Muiray's boy and were paid by the CONNER
eial men for serving the wine! A. Yes.
Q. Did I understand you to say that during
the II years that you were employed at the
Van Ness house there was no intoxicating
liquor Of any kind kept in the Van Ness
house? A. Yes.
Q. During that time was any intoxicating
liquor sold, in the Van Ness houseg A. /
never knew of any.
Q. When you went into the employment
of Mr.. Woodbury. at the Van Ness were you
not informed that no liquors were sold or
kept for sale in the Van Ness house? A.
Yes.
@. We're you not frequently asked by
guests to get them some kind of intoxicating
liquors in the dining room? A. Yes.
q. And did you not explain to them, to
such guests, in all instances, that no liquors
were kept for sale or sold in the Van Ness
house or by the house, and that the only
method by which you could procure such
liquor for them was to send out for them to
some place about the city? A. Yes.
@. And did not that generally end the thing!
A. Yes, as a general thing. They did not
want to wait so long for me to send out for it.
@. You (sent) had the bell boys go out as
you have described for guests in the dining
room as frequently during the last year that
you were there as during any Of the preced-
ing years! A. Oh, think about the same;
no rush at any time.
@. Is II not fact that during the last year
that you were there you did not send out
more than five or six times a month"; A.
Yes; not more than that, sometimes less.
Q. Did you not do this sending out on your
own responsibility for the sake of pleasing
guest? Yes.
Redirect examination by Joseph c.
Jones:-
@. Did Gov. Woodbury. or Mr.. Clark, the
manager, or any one else connected with the
management of the Van Ness house tell you
not to serve liquor to guests? A. No.
Q. You continued this practice, as | under
stand it, day in and day out, week days and
Sundays, during the period of four or five
years as above stated, and without Interrupt
tion by or any interference on the part Of
Mr.. Woodbury. or Mr.. Clark or any one else.
Collected to as leading)
@. Well, some weeks we wouldn't sell
anything. And sometimes we would go for
a month without serving any and then we
would commence to serve again, and would
continue off and on without interruption.
Q. Did you not serve to guests when asked
to by them? A. Yes, when asked by them if
| could get it.
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j. A. BARNEY.
Still Another Member of the Maquam
Party Testifies.


Party Testifies.
j. A. Barney, in a deposition taken at st.
Adams April 1, said that he was a farmer
and went to Burlington ON the first trip of
the Maquam in 1894 and dined at the Van
Ness house. The examination continued -
Q. State who sat at the dinner table with
you? A. There were Mr.. Owen, DIR. Allen,
Charles Hall, Myron Dorman, Frank Lspelle
and Edward Lapelle.
Q. Where, if you know, are DR.. Allen and
Mr.. Owen at the present time? DR.. Allen is
West somewhere; think he Is In st, Louis.
Mr.. Owens, | don't know where he is; he is
not in Swanton.
Q. Was any Intoxicating liquor drank by
any of that party upon that Occasion2 A.
There was. ....4 ..... ....
@. Who ordered the liquor and of whom
ordered from the head waiter, think,
@. Who of the party drank? A. think
all but two drank.
@. Who brought in the liquor and what
kind of liquor was brought in? A. The same
man Mr.. Owen gave the order to. 1t was
wine.
80. Were any glasses brought in at the same
time? A. l can't tell as to that; we had
glasses on the table, but / can't tell whether
brought in at the same time or not
Q. Who paid for the'liquor and where was
1t paid for? A. l don't know. VII
Q. Did you see anybody pay for 1t at the
table? A. did not. .TN ai. Il,
@. How many other persons were In the din
ing room at that time? A. cannot tell you.
@. Were there any? A. Quite number.
Q, Do you know whether Gov, Woodbury.
was there or not? A. do not.
@. Did you know him at that time? A. L
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