News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-01-21


ing to order and briefly stated the
object. The folio wing temporary
organization was effected: Chair
man, Judge S. A. Andrews, Johnson;
first vice-president, W. NJ Scott,
Cambridge; second vice-president, A.
, F. Whitney, Morrisville; secretary,
L. H. Lewis, Hyde Park; assistant
secretary, c. S. Hager, Hyde Park.
At the suggestion of Gov. Page an
intermission was taken for the pur-
pose of each town holding conference
and selecting a member for county
Committee of Safety. The follow
ing were selected:
Belvidere-Rev. A. G. Chandler.
Cambrdge-Linus Leavens.
Eden-B. B. Blake.
Elmore-P. A. Hollenbeck.
Hyde Park-Col. E, B. Sawyer.
Johnson-Hon c. H. Stearns.
Morrisville-H. Waite.
Stowe-N. Bigelow.
Wolcott-H. |. Randall.
Naturalization. H. A. Jackson.
This council Immediately organi-
zed as follows: President, Hon. c.
H. Stearns, Johnson; secretary, H.
Waite, Morrsville; treasurer, B. B.
Blake, Eden.
The remainder Of the morning was
taken up with informal remarks.
Rev. l. T. Johnson, M. E. pastor of
Johnson, urged forgetting all party
ties and uniting in the one purpose
of making Lamoille county the ban
ner county in it svote against license.
His town has already planned for a
town movement, but Johnson was
ready to fall into line for the fall Of
the comon evil'
R. W. Hulburd of Hyde Park an
nounced himself as opposed to the
proposed law. The first step to take
was to see that the liquor business
wasn't passed over to saloons. He
believed that the State should control
the liquor and not the liquor the
State. Didn't like the druggists
side of the proposed law. Whether
you want it or not, druggists could
arrange so that they could have it
to sell, The law would give him the
power to keep and sell and it would
not take much to have the State
peppered with drug stores. Our pro-
hibitory law is unpopular because of
the non-enforcement of the same.
Convictions for liquor selling could
be made as certain as for stealing
sheep.
]. D. Farrell of Johnson was
against the saloon because it would
injured every industry. The high Ii
cense cloud was the darkest cloud
that ever lowered over Vermont and
he hoped the committees would bring
out every No" vote in Lamoille
county.
Rev. Daniel Gregory of No. Hyde
Park compared Vermont with New
York, where local option is in vogue
and believed prohibition to be the
best by far for the States interest.
Col. Sawyer referred to the class of
men that passed the prohibitory law
fifty years ago and paid tribute to
the regiment of noble men of Yer
mont who had supported this law
all these years, and pertinently asked
if all the opinions of this army of
people were to be set aside at the
bidding of Mr.. Clement, who knew
nothing of the condition of Vermont
in ante-prohibition times. The Col
onel spoke from personal experience
and believed Vermont did not want
to move backward in the matter OF
temperance, which would be the case
if the proposed law was enacted.
Senator Jackson spoke of the diff
culties encountered at Montpelier
when the license law was passed,
and of the efforts he made for some
thing better than the law adopted.
Personally, he was not in favor of
license in any form whatever, and he
suggested that the best thing to do
in the present case was for every
man to go to work at home and take
a personal interest in defeating the
measure. Give the biggest No
that Vermont ever had"
Gov. Page read an extract from
speech of President Mckinley, in
which he spoke of the saloon as one
of the greatest evils we had to con-
tend with
L. o. Leavens of Cambridge, said
This isn't a time to remember party
politics. 1t is time to stand shout
der to shoulder against a common
foe"
Col. Mcfarland of Hyde Park said
the State never faced so serious a
question as that of to-day. To go
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