The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-26
BIG RALLY IN VERMONT.
Speeches by Senators Lodge and Thurston, and ex-Senators Proctor and EdInunds.


 
 Speeches by Senators Lodge and Thurston,
 and ex-Senators Proctor and EdInunds.
 Burlington, Vt, Aug. 25.-One of the largest political demonstrations in this city for years was the republican rally in City Hall park this afternoon. Five thousand people were present, includ- ing large delegation from surround- ing towns. Mayor s. s. Peck, president of the Republican State league, was chairman.
 The first speaker was Hon. Henry Ca- bot Lodge, United States senator from Massachusetts Senator Lodge said he favored the election of William McKin- ley to the presidency because he thought that the safety and honor of the country demanded his election. He discussed the Mckinley bill and the long season of prosperity under it's life, in marked contrast to the years that followed its operation.
 MT. Lodge ably discussed the money question and the proposition to relieve the present distress by the free coinage of silver. He showed what the effects of free coinage would be, who would be benefited and who would not. He maintained that what the people need ed most was revenue, and that this could be obtained by tariff on inn ports. He showed that while an in Hated currency might raise prices of farm products, farmers would be also compelled to pay more for what they ho11 er1,t fha a ell n CT of the wage-earner cut in two, farm CTS would find markets for products seriously impaired He referred to the attack on the supreme court, dwelt on repudiation of debt, and closed by hop ing that Vermont would speak more loudly than ever for Mckinley. Hon Redfield Proctor, United States senator from Vermont, spoke of the | practical application of the arguments of Senator Lodge. He touched upon the issues of the campaign and laid I particular stress on the importance of having large republican majority at the coming election.
 Senator John M. Thurston of Ne braska spoke next. He told how re- publicans and democrats stood together in the crisis of 1861 and said that it was necessary to lay aside party animosities and met the present crisis. The sena- tor discussed the free silver question, and said that he wanted a dollar good for rich and poor alike. He spoke of the mistaken ideas of people regarding the benefits of free silver and showed that the people of the country could get more silver by working for it. He spoke of the promise of MT. Bryan four years ago to give prosperity and his failure and of the same offer now | which, he said, the people should be careful of accepting He showed that free coinage would not double the price of farm products and spoke of the per- nicious effects of cheap money. He said free coinage would either double the value of every dollar and the prop erty Of every silver country or every dollar would sink to the level of theirs or our dollar would go part way down and theirs would come part way up. He closed by saying that the prosperi- ty of the country depended on every mans finding days work every day in the year and earning a good days wages.
 Hon. George F. Ednunds next spoke in substance as follows:
 T have been i'll for two weeks and came home to get well and to add one more to the majority next Tuesday. About tllirty-five years ago at a spot within the sound of my voice the people of Vermont met in the time of another great crisis. There was republican and a democratic party then, as now, but republicans and democrats left off their disputes about the revenue and the tariff and nine tenths of the dem- ocratic party united in electing repubA lican state officers and republican legislature. Judge SmalIey, father of one of the present so-called democrats in this city, Paul Dillingham; and Hen ry B. Stoughton of Bellows Falls were among the democrats who stood up then to help their country in the att tack that was made upon it. Now it is the anarchists, the enemies of law, who are endeavoring to seduce your vote when they know that their theo- ries are impossible. I do not believe you will let them do it.''
 Hon. F. c. Manchester, secretary of the Massachusetts Republican club, was the last speaker and gave an able discussion of the silver question.