Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-08-03
BIRTH OF A PARTY.
VERMONT'S PART IN FORMING RE
PUBLICAN ORGANIZATION.

First Conventions Under Present Name OF
Party Were Held in This ~State-James
VI. slade of Middlebury First Candidate
for Governor.
The July number of FOrbes's YER
monter contains an article from the pen
of Col. f. /. Green, editor of the st.
Albans Messenger, on "The Rupublican
Partv's Birth from which we copy the
following:
Vermont, although one of the least
populous states in the Union, has Away
welded her fair share of influence in the
councils of the Republican party, and
sometimes has even exerted a power al
together disproportionate to her natural
political importance. She was one OF the
few states in which the doctrines Of the
new political faith took early root, and,
from the very first time the Republican
party gained %ascendaucy within her
borders, she has held true and unswerv-
ing 70 its cause and candidates.
The year lS5j saw the organization Of
the party which entered the campaign of
1856 as the Repahlicanplrty of Vermont,
and which from 1850, without intermis-
sion, has been il absolute control Of
every department of the STATE govern
ment. In the sttte campaign of 1900.
however, it did not assume any distinc.
tive name. Il was organized in response
to a call issued after a conference be-
tween two state committees chosen by
state conventions held in Rutland June
:, and In Montpelier July -, 1854. II
was practically a fusion of two separat"
movements which for atwelvemonth had
been feeling their way along in the same
direction, and had merged into one
through the resistless drift of public SEN
timent. 1t furnished the common ground
upon which all opponents of the demo-
cratic national administrations policy,
regardless of varying shades of opinion,
were invited to array themselves against
slavery.
The call for the convention at which
this party was organized read as follows:
The Freemen OF the state of Vermont who
desire to cooperate in the state election Of
september next and the approaching Prcsi-
Dental election in opposition to the pro SlaV'
cry policy of the present National Adminis
tration and to the ptopagandi-t of slavery of
every name in the Union for the defense 81
Freedom and to protect the rights OF the Free
state, are invited to meet IN state conventions
1t Burlington. ON "Wednesday, the 9th June
INST, At 10 O'Clock "a. ma, to 'iniutte state
officers for the year ensuing, and for the
transaction of such other business AS shall be
proper to the occa sion.
JOHN PORTER,
LAWRENCE ~BRAINERD,
Chairmen of state Committee.
In pursuance of this call. the conven-
tion assembled in Burlington and was
called to order by John Porter of Hart
ford. Hon. Alvah Sabin of Georgia
was chosen president pro tenn, end c.. II.
Hayden of Rutland and L. X. Pangborn
of st. Adams secretaries pro TEN. The
following committee on organization was
appointed, one from each county:
Addison. William Nash; Chittenden,
d. Lyman; Franklin, b. Il. Newton;
Grand Isle, A. NJ. Kinney; Lamoille, J..
NJ. Hotchkiss: Orange, JUstinS ;. Morrill, /;
Orleans, Portus Baxter; Rutland, c. IL.
Hayden; Washington, f. j. Newcomb:
Windham, O. II. Plat; Windsor, John
Porter.
1t will be noted that Bennington, Gale
donia and Essex counties were not rep
resented in this list.
The committee reported the following
nominations for permanent officers of the
convention and they were elected
President. Alvah Sabin of Georgia a;
vice-presidents. Samuel p. Strong and
John Peck secretaries, George G. Brne-
diet Of Burlington, L. X. Pangborn of
st. Adams, w. p. DAVIS of st. Adams.
The convention then resolved itself in
to county caucuse to form a committee
on nominations made up ON the basis Of
one member for every senator allowed
each county, and to select a state COM
mittee. The following committee on
nominations was chosen:
Addison county, William Nash. y.
Guindon; Chittenden county, F.W. Bald
win. d. II. Onion, G. W. Benedict ;
Franklin county, Cyrus IIotchkiss, b. b.
Newton, II. Stevens; Grand Isle county,
A. VI. Kinney Lamoille county. Addison
Barber; Orange county, y. y. Taylor, b.
W. Bartholomew Orleans county, Port
US Baxter; Rutland county, John Os-
good. c. NJ. Willard, G. II. Hayden ;
Washington county, +. j. Newcomb,
Perley Belknap; Windham county, +.
Kirkland, o. II. Plat; Windsor county,
JUN OIlcI. W. olCClC, - l tld puldu,
A. Stimson.
This committee presented the follow
ing nominations for state officers and
they were UNANIMOUSLY endorsed by the
convention:
For Governor, stephen Royce of East
Berkshire.
For Lieutenant-G Governor, Ryland
Fletcher Of Cavendish.
For Treasurer, Henry NJ. Bates of
Mortified.
The following state committee was
also nominated by the committee, and
elected by the convention:
Lawrence Brainerd of st. Adams,
John Porter of Hartford, Bliss n. Davis
of Danvllle, Rolla Gleason of Rich
mond, David 5. Church, II. G. Root of
Bennington, James S. Moore.
The ticket nominated by this conven.