Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-08-10
From the Montpelier Journal. J

advertisement as a farmers advocate,
farmer of strong intelligence, power in
the cause to which he gives his support.
Was Farmer Chaplin sitting silently in the
senate while a measure that was really
deemed a makeshift was being passed, and
a bill that Is now set up to be palladium
to the farmer interest was being slaugh-
tered2 These questions answer them
selves.
The simple facts are that the farmers of
the legislature of 1884 became satisfied, on
the sober second thought, that the Parker
bill passed would be equivalent to no law on
the subject involved; that house bill SIS
was the wiser measure. So they forsook
the former and betook themselves TO the
latter And their leaders, like Douglass
and Chaplin, were not men who could be
bamboozled by the lawyers or misled by
demagoguery.
These facts and circumstances demon
strate clearly the following propositions:
() That Mr.. Dillingham; was activesby
voice and counsel in promoting legislation
that would protect the farmers of Vermont
in the manufacture Of butter and the peo-
pie who are consumers of butter. With
him it was simply a choice between two
bills having the same object in view.
(2) That the bill Mr.. Dillingham; ia
vored was duly considered by the house
on several occasions, was debated by Mr..
Barrett, Mr.. Parker and Mr.. Dillingham;,
and finally, after mature celebrating
and amendment on the motion of the
chairman of the committee on agriculture,
was called up on his further motion and
passed, it being known and we'll under
stood that meantime the prior bill, No. 1877,
was slumbering in the hands of the senate
committee on agriculture, obviously await
ing action on this measure.
(3) That during all this time the SEN
ate committee had been waiting for this
bill; that when 1t was received the meas
ure was Immediately reported to the SEN
ate with the Recommendation that it pass,
and it was passed without debate or oppo-
sition; that the Parker bill was subse-
quently killed by reason Of the passage of
the former measure.
The journal repeats that the real facts
in this case rebound immensely TO Mr. Dill
lingham's credit for wisdom and honesty,
and will strengthen him with the class in
whose esteem and confidence the purpose
is 10 injure him. He was the wise and ju-
dcious friend of the farmer interest in the
matter in question. The farmers in the
legislature of 1884 at length saw this !;
Mr.. Douglass saw it, farmer and true friend
of the farmer that he was, and became Mr..
Dillingham's ally in the house in support
of the bill OF the general committee. Dill
| bingham hostile or unfriendly or uncaring
for any Vermont interest-farmer or other
wise? In season and out of season, on the
stump or in the legislature, at home or
abroad, he has ever been the sincere, ar
dent, eloquent and efficient champion of
Vermont. He has infinite pride in the
history and institutions of the state. His
presence and voice on many public occa-
sions have contributed to the good fame of
Vermont. The people of Vermont resent
the miserable aspersions upon his charac-
ter as public man and citizen, and they
will express their resentment when the
time and opportunity arrive.