The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-29
THE REFoRMER: BRATTLEBoRo VT. FRIDAY MAY 20. 1896.

! that the party ought to win, even II
did not. He said that the prohibition
law, after Al years trial, was failu
and with Rutland, where, he said, ii
quor was sold and where a license la,
would result in Il revenue OF $50, 90
yearly. That city's debt of nearly hal
a million dollars could be wiped on
by license law Towns are failing t,
derive the revenue which belongs t,
the taxpayers and which is at prescn
going into the pockets of certain offic,
holders But under the present sys
tenn of representation in the Legislat
rure the needed reform comes slowly
If prohibition is made live issu,
and representatives from the small
towns vote as their convictionsJimpe
them to vote, home rule will be Sc
cured for every town in the state.
G. II Davenport as chairman of The
committee of resolutions, then reported
the platform, as given above and every
paragraph and every sentence almost,
was !. greeted with laundering APP
plause.
The money plank was the only ONE
over which there seemed to be the
slightest division and for this Captain
j. j. Monahan of Underhill, saying
he wanted the Democracy of Vermont
to..stand in line with that OF the rs
sured Democratic Estates, offered a
substitute declaring for free coinage
at l6 TO without waiting for the &C
tion OF any other nation. Cha irman
McGettrick held it out of order nder
the rule adopted early in the day re.
quiring all resolutions to be submitted
to the committee on resolutions withut
debate, but Davenport and j. II. Senter
appealed to him 10 allow good free
Democratic discussion, without regard
to rules, and Mr. McGettrick asked the
consent of the convention to waive the
rule. A lively and most interesting
debate of over an hour ensued Cap
tain Monahan was supported with re
peated vigorous speeches from X. S.
Childs Of Brattlcboro and w. W. RYDER
OF Bristol. j. II Senter led off in sup
port OF the resolutions with at can
be described as no less than one of the
mostIpowerful speeches ever heard ia
any convention. and TO him is it.due in
the main that the victory was so
sweeping. When the fight commenced
the applause showed that the free sill
yer advocates had the sympathy of
large element of the convent on, per
haps fourth. When the vote was
taken, according to the silver men
themselves, not over six or eight voices
were raised on that side. certainly not
over 10. AS Senter swept along wit h
his logic and lnvective, one watching
the convention could almost gee the
silverites being moved down. 1t was
an extraordinary effort and il was
enough. But the silver leaders, full of
grit renew the charge and Davenport
and j. ii. Holton Of Burlington met
them. Mr.. Holton fired straight and
lot charges OF common sense, and
Davenport invited them to reason.
4 II, he declared, were bimetalists the !
IN question was how to reach it. |
The demand for free coinage meant
liver monometalism and nothing else !; |
t would inevitably drive all our gold |
nut Of circulation, 500, 600, GOO 10 round !
numbers, more than a third of all the
money We have. 1t meant that where
We have 50 to do business with now,
We would then have less than $2,and
hat worth less than sim other
rords the taking away of two thirds
4 the support Of our present fabric of
BUSINESS and credit. and the result
ould only be wreck and disaster in
ulcable. That was where the free coin
ge method of reaching bimetslism
aust end 1t was the evil and the
urse of Republcanism and Mckinley
traddling that it had done much
owards this now and the gold reserves
( Europe, which we're $500. 600, coo
hen we began fooling with the sub
sct had risen 10 81, 600, 600, 600 nearly,
be bulk of it drawn from our reserves
nd production. On the other hand
Il us say to Europe. If you insist on
ecping up this policy of gold grab
ing, all right pay us in cold gold the
POO, 600, GOO year of balances for the
,od you must have from lis or starve ,
gu can't hope any longer that this
hing is going to end with swapping :.
u your silver for our gold'-let this -.
nee be understood thoroughly and il !,
ouldn't take Johnny Bull a twelve !
onth to come 10 his knees. Here is !
lc way and the only way Ia reach ,,
imetalism and We were close To il a !
,ar ago, as was proved in Germany ,
81 England, the two great nations ..
lat particularly stood olt. when Fit
as all spoiled by the sudden rise
,ain Of the free silver agitation in :,
lis country.
T. W. Maloney in similar line. insisted :,
AT the resolution meant real bimeta =
m. and eloquently and forcefuIly he .
welt upon the wrong and the folly, y
en- from the standpoint of policy, of y
e silVente view. :,
Mr.. Childs IN one Of his speeches s
wing the platform of the national I
of four years ago. was good I
ough for the Vernon. Democracy to n
and on, professed to quote with its \
claration for equal coinage and II
4atment of both metals, but emitting /
e clauserthat it should be only upon O
sis of equal intrinsic and inter +
angcabe values, - and Senter gave p,
m hot scorching for it. /
Captain Monahan then catechised Il
NEWPORT as to what sure Democratic "
ties had pronounced for the gold
lndard and after few answers gave W
and on Maloney's motion the sub d.
tute resolution was tabled by almost Y,
aoimous vote. n,