Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-09-16
VermOnters at Canton.

The special train bearing the Vermont
delegation of visitors reached Canton and
the home Of Mckinley Friday. The spokes-
man of the delegation was Col. George T.
Childs OF st. Albans. Remarks were also
made by Hon. Olin Merrill, Senator Proc
tor, Gov. Woodbury., Lieut.. Gov. Mansur,
and Congressman Grout and Powers.
The Vermont delegation travelled on
special train of five cars. The engine bore
the national colors and the inscription
"Ohio to Vermont, $4,000" Among the
inscriptions on the cars were: eve are
coming, Father William, 100000 strong"
and Put Vermont to the front and keep
the lines well closed"
The delegation with Mckinley in the
centre was photographed in front of his
house.
In the course of his remarks, Mckinley
said
give you welcome, generous welcome,
from an overfowing heart Of my state, to
my city and my home. I would be unjust
to my own feelings and irresponsive to the
kind sentiments uttered by your spokesman
if permitted to pass unobserved the fact
that in the preliminary contest for the NOM
ination of president the state of Vermont
gave to me her united vote.
The Green Mountain state is endeared to
us all by tradition and history, in song and
story but above all in good work manifest
ing her results. Whether in the days of
the revolution, when her hardy mountain
eers repulsed the best soldiers of Europe
in the days of the rebellion, when her sol
diers displayed the same resolute courage
at Big Bethel, Champions Gap, Savage
Station or Gettysburg, or in the no less i'm
portant and decisive conflicts in civil life,
the people of Vermont have always been
true to the best ideals and highest obGga-
tions Of duty, and active, distinguished and
useful in every great emergency.
No one will deny to them glorious part
in achieving the independence of the colo.
nies none will question that they did mucf
to check the aggressions of human slavery
and in the final triumph of the nation in the
hour OF its greatest peril. Nor in our later
trials will any one doubt that the example
and voice of Vermont have always beer
most potential on the side of Justice, honor
and right. Some of the newspapers have
asked me to interpret the result of the elec
ton in Vermont in September, but it seem
to me that they are their own best inter
prefer. They have simply declared wha
any student of our history must alread,
have discovered, that your thoughtful ant
patriotic citizens are as true as ever; aye
truer than ever, to the tenets of goo,
i morals, good politics and good government
; They have shown by their ballots, by
greater preponderance than ever, that the
are more devoted to the honor of the gov
; ernment, to the maintenance of law an,
) order and the restoration of that sound
| wise and economic system which has alway
been our chief pride and source of strengt
than at any previous period Of our eventfu
7 history.
Speaking of protection and the Vernon
farmer he continued.
In that verdict of the election in you
state see the unalterable determination {
the people of the United States, for who1
I she had he.honor first to speak, to restor
I I the protective tariff system once more to ou
state books. Vermont is an agricultur,
: state, but her keen, sagacious and hone.
: ! farmers know full well the value of protet
T ton and its twin sister, reciprocity. Th
I farmers of this country want a protectiv
q tariff and they mean to have it.
I So, too, viii our farmers everywhere de
1 eide. They are naturally conservative
and their unerring common sense and con