Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-08-08
BOUGHT A GOLD BRICK.
High License-Loea option RepubIi-
cans Endorsed the Democratic coun-
ty Ticket to Get Senator.


The Democrats of Windham county
sold a gold brick to the high license
local option Republicans Saturday,
when they induced them to endorse
the nominations made at the Demo
cratic county convention and thus bolt
the Republican county ticket which
by their own action was made UNI
animous at the Republican county con-
vention. At about o'clock Satur-
day night a certificate of nomination,
signed by local option Republicans
and one or two Democrats in Brattle-
boro and Bellows Falls and placing
in nomination the entire Democratic
ticket, was filed in the county clerks
Office. The ticket is designated
"License-Local Option Ticket" The
scheme was suggested by a Democrat,
and the main object in doing it was
to secure If possible the election of
c. II. Davenport of Brattleboro as
state senator, he being a strong adj
vocate of license.
At the Republican convention NJ. r.
Lawrence of Rockingham, who is
license man, was nominated for sena-
tor from the Westminster probate dis
trict. The other nominee was G. ID.
Spencer of Wilmington, who is a firm
believer in the prohibitory law The
Democratic convention endorsed the
nomination of Mr.. Lawrence, making
his election assured, and nominated
as senator from the Marlboro probate
district G. II. Davenport of Brattle-
boro. How to make Mr.. Davenport's
election assured was the problem
which then presented itself to the
Democrats. The license Republicans
also preferred Mr.. Davenport to Mr..
Spencer, and they adopted the sug-
gestion from the Democratic side to
endorse the Democratic ticket. never
stopping to think that they were adj
vocating the election of the entire
| ticket instead of Mr.. Davenport alone.
| who alone, If elected, would have any
thing to do with the question of
| license. AS the matter stands now
every Republican who votes the Re-
publican ticket, substituting the name
Of Mr.. Davenport for that Of Mr.. Spen-
Ger. must put a cross opposite Mr..
| Davenport's name and a cross OPP
posite every name but Mr. Spencer's
on the Republican ticket
The names of those who signed the
nomination papers are as follows;
From Bellows Falls-Charles T. .Grout,
| C. II. Gibson. r. D. Locklin. George b.
| Allbee. d. F. Beasley. John Haynes,
I'd. William Higgins, II. d. Sparrow,
| c. f. Dowlin. d. P. Burlingame, Frank
F. Shepard. w. B. Cassidy. II. w.
Keene. w. w. Greene. F. c. Winnewis-
ser. Ed. Schopp. NJ. F. Davis. w. A.
Truax. w. II. Taylor. f. A. Norwood,
NJ. d. Jackson, F. Markham. George II.
| Allbee, II. F. Chandler. F. S. Ham,
| r. s. Leonard. G.. L. Burnside, q.
Sutcliff Hill, II. Elliott. P. H. Conley,
s. f. Peck. George X. Russell. William
]. McEvoy and James S. Rady; from
Brattleboro-H. f. Bond, w. II. Bond,
w f. Timson. E. G. Frost. I. j.
Heaphy. II. NJ. Wood, f. f. Perry, t.
Frank Turner. Charles f. Guild, Am
| brose Knapp, R. L. Manley, r. II. Sar-
| gent c. w. Puffer. !. E. Gleason, H.
| s. Goodenough. NJ. ]. Moran. f. ]. Fen
ton. c. A. McRae. David ]. Shaw, A.
w. Kezer. Carl ]. Berg. Bonn Perry
and A. V. May. The signatures were
| sworn to before Frank H. Laughton
of Dummerston. notary public.
Mr.. May stated in very positive
terms that he signed the nomination
paper under misrepresentation as to
it's import. that the matter was mis-
represented to him. and that he never
has endorsed a Democrat in a political
matter and never will.
DR.. Hill of Bellows Falls also states
that the matter was not fairly repre-
sented to him, that he signed the pa
per surprising he was merely endors-
| ing Mr.. Davenport for senator. He
purposes to support the regular Re
publican ticket in the main. Others
in Brattleboro and Bellows Falls say
they did not understand that they
were endorsing the entire ticket
There has been talk of Directing to
having the license-local option ticket
printed on the official ballot. on the
ground that il is not legal. but as yet
the talk has not crystallized. 1t Is
claimed that the paper is defective in
that the name of the political party
does not follow the names of the nomi-
nees as on the Republican and Demo