Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-07-25
! THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION


was held at Burlington last Wednes-
day. The convention was called to
ord er by H. F. Brigham Of Bakersfield,
chairman of the state committee. c..
A. G. Jackson of Montpelier was
named as temporary chairman, and
P. G. dodge of Burlington and Mr.
Knights of Newbury as temporary
secretaries. Mr.. Jackson spoke at
some length claiming that the Demo
cratic party was responsible for the
war, urging the party to stand by the
doctrines of the Chicago platform and
attacking Imperialism. He attacked
the ''manifold iniquities" of Republi-
can state officers and their extrava
gance and incidentally paid his re-
spects to prohibition.
The temporary organization was
then made permanent and a vice.
president was then elected from each
county. After transacting some other
business the convention proceeded to
the nomination of the state officers. P.
F. McManus of Rutland, amid great
applause, nominated Thomas W. Ma
loney of Rutland for governor, and
urged his fellow democrats not to be
ashamed of their party. The nomi-
nation was seconded by Mr.. Senter on
behalf of Washington county and Mr..
Holden for Bennington county, Mr..
McGettrick of st. Albans in behalf of
Franklin county. The nomination
was further seconded by Rutland, Or
ange, Addison, Chittenden, Grand
Isle, Windham, Essex and Windsor
counties. Nominations for lieutenant
governor were called for and George
w. Dickey of Bradford presented the
name of A. Allen Olmstead of New
bury. Mr.. Randall of st. Johnsbury
nominated George B. Davis of Dan
Vile. A ballot was called for and the
result of the ballot was whole number
of votes PAL, necessary to a choice
122; Mr.. Davis had 1O5 and Mr.. Ohm
stead had 1876. On motion of Mr.. Ran
dali the nomination of Mr.. Olmstead
was made unanimous. The remainder
of the ticket was nominated unani
mously as follows: State treasurer, L.
w. Clough of Bethel; secretary. of
state, George B. Davis of Danville;
auditor of accounts, Richard D. Preble
Of fShoreham. Mr.. Childs for the COM
mittee on resolutions then read the
platform which was adopted with only
one dissenting vote. The attack on
the prohibitory law and the endorse
ment of Bryan called forth tumultu-
Gus applause. At 1890 O'Clock re-
cess was taken until O'Clock. The
afternoon session was called to order
at 2:3O O'Clock, and the following state
committee was named: Addison, J.
M. Barker of Middlebury; Benning-
ton, R. E. Houghton; Caledonia, A.
G. Randall of st. Johnsbury; Chitten-
den, J. HI. Holton Of Burlington; Es-
sex, M. j. Daley; Franklin, F. W.
McGettrick of st. Adams; Grand Isle,
Geo. w. Beardsley; Lamoille, Henry
Noyes of Hyde Park; Orange, Geo. A.
Dickey of Bradford; Orleans, P. J.
Farrell of Newport; Washington, J.
FL. Senter of Montpelier; Windham,
R. S. Childs of Brattleboro; Windsor,
II. w. Stocker of Windsor; Rutland,
DR.. S. D. Hanrahan of Rutland. Mr..
Maloney was conducted to the plat
form by Messrs. McGettrick, Senter
and Kimball, and addressed the con-
vention. He was followed by Hon.
Geo. Fred Williams and the conyen-
ton then adjourned
The Second District Congressional
Convention was called to order in the
opera house at 1:45 O'Clock by Geo.
W. Dickey, r. S. Childs of Brattleboro
was named as chairman and Geo. A.
T1lden of Roxbury and Arthur G. Ran
dali of st. Johnsbury secretaries. G.
A. G. jackson Of Montpelier was nom
mated for member of congress. In
the platform adopted by the state
convention they declare their adher-
ance to the principles of the Demo
cratic party formulated by jefferson,
exemplified by long line of Demo
Gratis since his time, and crystallized
in the platform adopted by the Dem
ocratic national convention in Chica-
go in 1896. 1t upholds the present ad-