Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-06-18

Chairman Hall amid laughter. They
were as follows: H. G.. IIibhard of Addi-
son, w. H. Bradford of Bennington, G. /.
Blair Of Caledonia, r. f.. Burgess OF emit
tcndon. r. w. Lund of Essex, John Par
kor Of Franklin, Edwin Adams of Grand
Isle. V. n. shattuck of Lamoilc S. Nj.
Gleason of Orange, ~. 5. Tolman OF Or
leans l.. Gray of Rutland. y. a. Huse of
Washington. n. L. Taylor of Windham'
NJ. o. Perkins OF Windsor.
on motion of W. Il. Johnson a commit
tee on resolution WAS appointed, the chair
reading from another liat, amid more
laughter the following names: w. T.
johnson of Windsor county, G. NJ. Wilds
of Addison, Z. G. Archibald Of Bennington,
II. L. Ido of Caledonia. G.. II. Hayden OF
Chittondcn, y. II. Dale of Essex, l.. c.
Learcns of Franklin, T. y. I.adue OF Grand
Isle. W. H. darker of Lamoille. Cassius
Peck of Orange, G. H. Jones of Orleans
Justin Batcheldcr of Rutland, T.. +. Pal
Windham.
KittrcdFe HaaSins Of Brattleboro offer
ed the following resolutions
Resolved. That a committee of six be APP
pointed by the chair to receive and count
the ballots. that the delegates for each
county come forward and vote by towns
| in alphnbetical order. and the secretary
!
gates namc as he votes and the ballots
so deposited shall be counted and kept
| by counties and announced after all the
counties have voted.
col. lIaskins stated that the resolution
met the approval of the two candidates
and 1t was unanimously adopted.
PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES.
Chairman Hail announced that the pres
entation of names for the govcrnorship
was next in order and Gen. i. c. Butter
| field of Derby Line took the floor. Cen
I}uttcriield said in substance:
| deem myself most happy and fortunate
in having been selected to present to TINS
convention the nar'" Of one of Vermont =
grandest sons and to ask your support
for him. lie will carry your loyal banner
to glorious victory. Vermont Is justly
proud of her long l!lc of illustrious eXccu-
| tiVcs and no less proud Is she Is her long
| limo of ilustrious soldiers. To you, a
grand army of patriotic citizens ! speak;
/ the wheels of time are revolving 50 swift
lv that in % frw wears IL win br ir'upssib' +"
TO name as governor a soldier Of 1851.
, most hcaruiN Respond to inc duiy Wlioh
| the citizens of Orleans county have i'm
posed upon mo. Tho man | shall name Is
not unknown to you. In years past YOU
/ have entrusted to him affairs of weight
land in nothing has he been found want
! ing. 7 present for your consideration the
namo of that fair-minded, clean-handcd
citizen, Mai Grout of Derby"
! The mention of Mai. Grouts name was
the signal for enthusiastic cheering which
| lasted for several minutes.
| EX-Licut. GOV. II. a. Fletcher Of Cavcn-
dish. in nominating Speaker Stickney,
| named his candidate in the first sentence
| of his speech and pandemonium reigncd
again After the applause had subsided
Mr.. Fletcher referred to Mr.. Stickney' )
ability. his long public career and TO the
fact that he possessed all the elements
needed In u good governor. "The most
gratifying feature in his career" said Mr..
! Fletcher, "is his modest. unassuming
| manner. We believe him to be the choice
of the people and Windsor county pre-
sents him as n competent and faithful pub
| lie servant"
Rev. f. j. Ranslow of Swanton, in Sec
onding the nomination Of Major Grout in
behalf of almost II solid delegation from
! Franklin cunty, said that he believed his
candidate to be the peer of any man In the
| state in integrity ana executive ability.
lie also believed in the equal distribution
Of public offices and thought we should
| give the nomination to Orleans county,
which hos not had governor within the
memory of man, rather than one that has
had four within IA few years.
| ", a, liusc of Montpelier thought we
were here to nominate u man, not II coun-
", and in behalf of iye-slXths of the
Washington county delegation he seconded
the nomination of Mr., Stickncy as being
capable of leading the party to the grea l.
est victory ever known in this State.
Il. II. Dale /of Island Pond and Perry
| Porter of West Burke seconded Major
Grouts nomination in behalf of the unani-
nous delegations from Essex and Gale
donia counties. II. T. Cushman of Ben
nngton seconded Mr.. Stickney, as did
Delegate Wilcox of Fairfield. Horace w.
Bailey of Ncwbury seconded the nominal
tion of Major Grout in behalf of the ma
jOrity of the Orange county delegates,
only TO be followed by G. $, Emery OF
Chelsea, of the minority for Stckney.
Thomas Mack of Nergennes seconded the
nomination OF Grout on behalf Of 9S dele
gates from Addison county.
| c. NJ. Wllds of Middlebury, in seconding
! the nomination of Mr.. Stlckney, referred
to him as a leader in the war that was
now on, He was followed by Col, Kit
tredge Haskins of Bratteboro, in behalf
OF 26 Grout delegates in Windham county
who answered Mr. Wilds and referred to
Maj. Grout's honorable career.
4 Ex-Gov. G.. W. Hendee Of Morrisville, al.
though not a soldier in the war, was for
giving the preference to the old soldiers
and he favored Maj. Grout
Judge l.. NJ Read of Bellows Falls said
that while standing by the old soldiers We
vented their service in the war, Mr. Stick.
ncy, he said, represented the earnest, en-
thusastic, working element in the party
to whom the party must look for future
victories.
George Il. Lawrence of Rutland spoke
for Mr. Stlckney as a leader of the young
and active republicans of the State. Nc
one will believe the intimation here madt
that any one wants to decry the old sol.
diers who fought in 6l He alluded in nhigh.
est terms to that valiant soldier, Gov
Woodbury., and said that we had sufil
centy honored the old soldiers, but we
should not be dominated by one single idea
but must now recognize the young ee
ment of the State.
iIX-Gov. Barstow spoke for the Ludlow
candidate and G. ~. Blake of Barton II
urging the nomination of Mai. Grout de
precated some references that had mad,
, to former campaigns as we'll as persona
attacks.
! Charles y. Barney of Jericho explained
/, the situation of the. delegation from Jcr
: cho. lie was personally for Stckney, bu