Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-07-04
MR.. JONES NOMINATION SPEECH.


name of Gen. Grout at the district Conven
ton at Montpelier.
Mr.. PRESIDENT: Too often in the heat
of political excitement we forget the oath
that whenever we cast a vote, it shall be
under our conscience and Judgment and
| without fear or favor. This high duty is
binding here and now. Under it the ar
guments for change, for locality and favor
| sink to insignificance, and motives of jeal-
ousy or revenge are beneath contempt
| Where is the man by character, by ability
and attachments best fitted to serve the
State? These are the questions and these
the only questions worthy of our consider
alton. The Congress of today is not the
body it was thirty or even twenty years
ago. With the advent of new States, new
and crude elements have come in. Larg-
er and more unwieldly, its problems are
more complex ana vast, its opportunities
/ for advancement more remote.
In1S30a man was elected to congress from
the 3rd district after surrounding .obsta
| Giles before which nine men out Of ten
+ would have failed. In 1884 he}was chosen
from the End district, and since that time
he has served it faithfully and well. A
tirele ss worker, an as5iduous student, year
by year he has grown in influence and
str angth. His speeches rank with the
ablest, his service on committees with the
best. AS chairman Of the committee of
the District of Columbia, he gained the
we'll earned name of ''Mayor of Washing
ton," and the admiration of the National
Capital. Serving now on one Of the most
important committees of Congress, with its
appropriations of $500, 100000 per year, he
stands well in line for its craftsmanship.
Chairman of the committee on War Ex
penditures, and who can say when this war
will end? It may be in a month. it may
be in year, it may be at the end of a Eu-
ropean conflict such as the world has never
seen. The man who is best in war is best
in peace. Go to Washington today and it
is conceded that one of the most active,
one Of the most useful, one of the most
efficient mem berS of the House comes from
the End district of Vermont. (Cheers.) 1t is
beyond successful contradiction. 1t is
beyond the shadow of doubt. He knows
the ropes-he's a fielder in the House,
faithful, alert, vlg1lant, true to the party,
true to the country, tru e to the State, and
true TO the interests Of his constituents
Turn on the searchlight. Is there a spot to
tarnish that record? In the dark April days
when the nations president was straining
every nerve to avert, if possible, the awful
horrors of war, the senator from Vermont
and the member from the End district
were called to the White House among his
most trusted advisers. And no man in
the State today, I care not how great his
l.
charming his personality, can fill the posi-
ton he holds without long years of expe-
rience.
There is principle involved. Look at
England. Whence come her Statesmen
her Pitts, her Burkes, her Peels, her
Brights, her Gladstones? From early man
hood till late in life they schooled and
trained in the arts of Craftsmanship. The
same lesson is found at home. Compare
Maine and New York. The great Empire
State with her eminent lawyers and men
Of affairs, where the exigency of politics
compels frequent change, and what has
she produced since Seward? The imperi-
Gus Conklin and the wiley Platt. Look at
Maine. She sends good men to Congress
and keeps them there-a Hamlin, Fessen-
and her mighty Reed. (Cheers.)
Compare Vermont and Pennsylvania.
The great Keystone State with her vast
population and resources, with % men in
Congress and aside from Thad. Stevens,
that son of Vermont who by his genius
held his place and leadership in the House,
what has she produced since Cameron?
Matt. Quay. Look at Vermont, mere
spot on the national domain, and behold
the fruit she yields! A Collamer, a Foote,
a odbridge, a Willard, Poland, her
peerless Edmunds, her 'sGrand Old Man,
Morrill,, 43 years in Congress, her astute
Proctor, mighty in political council
(Cheers.)
Year after year, this little state held the
Craftsmanship of the two chief Senate COM
mittees and the acknowledged leadership of
that body. And today, no State in the
Union of its size, no State with any COM
parison in size, holds the position in Con-
gress, Yields the influence there, held and
welded by the State of Vermont.
Why are these things true? Because she
has sent to Congress men of the true Green
Mountain type, and when found faithful
and efficient has kept them there in spite
Of all opposition. They have grown with
the nations growth, they have strength
ened with the nations strength, their in
fuence has broadened and widened alike I
the Wilderness of the seas.' A policy so
wise in its conception, SO beneficent in it's
results, which has given our little State
such national influence and renown-a
policy adopted, tried, proved and honored |
by the fathers, must and shall be main
tanned and perpetuated by the sons.
Mr.. President, believing these things
are true, believing they are right and lust,
helieYiug they are exnedient and hel,e1,i,oe