The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-03
VERMONT ALL RIGHT FOR REED.
Green Mountain State Will Send Solid
Delegation for Him.

Green Mountain State Will Send Solid
Delegation for Him.
Burlington, VT, April 2.-Although
the call for tho Republican state conven-
ton to oh oose delegates to the national
Republican convention at st. Louis has
not yet been issued it is known that it
will be held at Montpelier. April 20.
The delegates will be Senator Redfeld
Proctor of Proctor, Col. E. g. Smith of
Vermont railroad; DR.. Fl. D. Holton Of
Brattleboro and @. A. Prouty of New
port.
The delegation will vote at all times as
q unit. It will be for Hon. Thomas B.
Reed until it becomes apparent that he
cannot be nominated, If such contin-
gency should arise. In the event Of o fail
ure to nominate Mr.. Reed, if Senator
Allison should prove the strongest candi-
date at that time the delegation would 5s
fully as likely to support him as Major
Mckinley.
LETTER FROM CHAIRMAN PUTNEY
Says the Concord Resolutions Were In-
tended to Punish Senator Chandler.
Manchester, N. H., April 2.-Henry NJ.
Putney, chairman of the committee on
resolutions of the state convention, in an
denies Chandler told him the names
of the presidential candidates should not
be mentioned in the resolutions. He says
that nearly every delegate at Concord felt
something must be done to show the
party must not be held responsible for
what Senator Chandler said about Nc
Kinley; that the committee on resoiu
tions considered many resolutions, rang
ing from one Indignantly repudiating
Chandler's utterances to one instructing
the delegates for Mckinley; that at the
request of the Senator's friends the mild
est of these was selected and was passed
by the convention; that Mr.. ChaDdler's
friends told him he was fortunate to get
nothing worse, advised him not to make
a hopeless fight, that whenever Reeds
cause is hopeless the men from New
Hampshire would vote for Mckinley,
He says he is glad to learn that Mr.. Reed
Is a bi-metallist.
Ivz,aJ ,senaIor GaIiinger says OF New
Hampshire.
Concord, N. H., April 2.-Senator Gal
linger whenquestioned as to the status of
the Republican party with reference to
preference for Presidential candidates,
said:
New Hampshire is favorable TO the
nomination of Mr.. Reed, but New Hamp-
shire Republicans are not willing to tie
themselves unreserVedly to the fortunes
of any one man, and more particularly
they are unwilling to place themselves in
opposition to any one of the leading
names DOW before the party as posi- ble
Presidential candidates. The delegates
elected will Loyalty support Mr.. Reed SO
long IS it appears possible to nominate
him.
NO Fear of Connecticut.
Washington, April 2.-CongTessman
Sperry of New Haven, Connecticut, says
that that state, will, in his opinion, be
solid for Reed st ST. Louis, as with all
the other New England States. Congress
man Russell of the same state, who has
just returned from home, says the senti-
ment is clearly for Reed, and DO fears Of
Mckinley stampede need be enter.
tained.
Sperry says the only way for the six
states of New England to get any recog-
nitlon in national politics is by standing
together, Tor otherwise their strength is
small compared with the great Middle
and Western States. Judge Powers of
of repetition of the performance in New
Hampshire, and is inclined to attribute
in that state the result to local causes.
Two More Reed Delegates.
Rolyoke, Mass, April 2.-The Republi-
can convention of the First Congressional
district today elected Perley A. Russell of
Great Darlington and VIM. WhiUing Of
Rolyoke, delegates to the st Louis cnn-
vention. An attempt to postpone the res.
olution instruoting the delegates tof
Reed and endorsing sound money, was
defeated 40 to 45. The resolution by a
vote of to 35 was amended by substi-
tuting the word recommend Tor in
struct. "