The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-06-19

county was divided among all four oil
the candidates. There had been talk
of oppos,tion to GDout in Orleans
county, but it did not materialize. The
preliminary canvass, therefore, showed
about 100 for Grout and 10 all told
or opposition.
On in Washington county they know
how TO "play politics" instead OF de
voting all their energies toward wrang-
ljpp,among themselves andPlumley had
created:a very:shrewd situation: by nav
ing the Mortified delegation for him
self and unpledged as to the state
fight aud, close AS the latter was, 1T
put him into shape to exact support
from the Stickney men N Windsor
county and probably if there had been
a ballot he would have led the opposi
ton, though il there could have been
more tnan one. Martin would have
led. But Graut's nomination was Ger
tain, Plumley had no appetite for the
fight and wanted to withdraw 1T the
Others would. As he had things inWash-
ington county, il might have Imperfect
Stickney's chances for the others, to in
sist on fight, and it is sprmised this
was the reason they backed down, AS
NJ artin and Read were both ar
dent Stickney men.
The convention opened shortly after
o'c lock with 3l5 out Of a possible
800 delegates present, being called to
order by Hon ". II. Dubois of Ran
dolph, chairman of the district com
mittee. and the. call read by !. Shat
tuck of Hardwick, Rev. Dr.. Seaver Of
Montpelier offered prayer. On motion
of John &. Stearns o. Bradford in the
absence of any contest. the roll call
was dispensed with. The temporary
as reported by the com
mittee and made permanent by the
was: Porter III.
Dale, Of Island Pond chairman
4. u. Butteriield of North Troy, secre-
tary. nd +. 4. Mutt of Montpelier, as
sistant secretary. Mr.. Dale was es-
corted to the chair by Col. Hooker and
II. W. Bailey of Newbury and made a
brief speech On taking the chair. He
said although that there might be
of opinion in this conven
ton as in the state convention at Bur
lington onWednesday, the Republicans
of Vermont would be unit again and
working for an old time majority of
30, 600 this fall. The platform of the
state convention was adopted in adj
vance as that of the district on motion
of Judge Hugh Henry of Chester.
Then came the nomination of con- /
gresham and W Miles of Barton pre-
sented the name of Gen. Grout. He
was numerously seconded by Bailey of |
Newbury for Caledonia county, Henry |
If Chester for a majority of Windsor |
county.
The vote was by acclamatation |
though Washington county delegate |
made some disturbance by calling for |
a ballot, but subsequently backed |
down. There were few 'noes' when
the vote was called.
l.. Bart Cross was nominated for |
presidential elector, by Col. :,
Hooker and the following dis
tict committee was elected: In Wash
ington county,F G Rowland of Barre ::
A Shattuck of Hadwick
Windsor, Frank F Walker of Ludlow;
Charles o Robbins of Brat
fieboro; Orange, John F Smead of
Essex,F ID Hale of Lunen-
burgh; Orleans. Armory Dawson of
Craftsbury. This committee at once
Dawson chairman and Ira Shattuck
secretary. Gen. Grout was called on
and made 10 minutes speech in
which he thanked the convention for
is action and touched upon the tariff,
and pension questions. At
he close of hIs remarks the conven-
ion made a break for the station and
ook the 6 O'Clock train for Burlington.