Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-12-08
TRIBUTE TO VERMONT.
George Partridge Talks to New York
ers Of the Green Mountain State.

ers OF the Green Mountain State.
The annual banquet OF the New Workers
in California was given November % at
the Occidental hotel ia San Francisco.
There vas a brilliant company present and
several speeches followed. George Par
tri tye, president OF the Vermonters' asso-
cia.ioD, Was called upon to speak for Yer
monts.s and delivered the following
| speech, which was often applauded -
| Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND. MEN OF NEW
| YORK wi hen | received the invitation to
be present at your banquet ! was thankful
you remembered your neighbor, Vermont.
There was no intimation, however, that /
would pay the penalty OF a speech. You
take me on the wing. | must tell you that
speeehmaking has passed with ne into in
/ nocuous desuetude. ! see you recognize
that impressive expression, and i duly
credit its oinage to New York.
| j rise with great EN- barassment to con-
| front the great Empire state so brilliantly
represented on the Pacific coast. But re-
member we have always been close neigh
| bors. We have mingled with great famil-
iaritY. We Vermonters have seen and
known you separate and apart without
| thought Of the concrete, and found you
| hospitable and generous, and smart as the
smartest Nermonter. So / viii not fear
and will not be over modest in telling you
what a great state Vermont is and, lest
you forget, reminding you of what part
Vermont played in the upbuilding OF Ne"
| York.
| Mr.. Horr of the Tribune used to say he
was thankful be was born in Vermont.
! There was a detiniteness about Vermont
! that assured him he was born somewhere.
He would rather not be born at ell than in
such a big state as Texas, and, he was go
| ing TO say New York, ! suspect, but was
afraid he would offend his constituents.
When look az the map of New York, its
irregular boundaries sometimes lost IN
lake and ocean, and think how "durned"
many there are OF you. j don't believe you
know just where you were born. You
swarmed, and il is tradition in the family
that II was in New York. You believe 1t
and are proud and happy. So | greet you
as genuine New Workers.
IL has long been an unwritten law in
Vermont that only three hundred thou
sand should stay at home, and there must
be as many abroad. This has been well
continued. We have kept up the equality
pretty we'll. Hence we find Nermonters
all along the line to Maniln. They are
generally heard from, and il is quite sur
prising how many Of them get back as far
as Washington. IL Is tradition and fact
that Vermont lbs furnished more Con-
gressmen to other states than any other
one state. That is because, as you have
just told us, when New Yorker goes
w est ne gets uOuNtlGk anu UhgN a AlihfA
straight back, as you say, before the mon
ey gives out. Vermonters go to stay, and
they build well. They easily learned TO
pick up stones and make stone fences to
last and they never get broke away from
home aud never think OF retreat.
When your Wouter Van Twiller was
smoking his long pipe, cogitating over
big ooubt, Nermonters invaded Man
haitian. Horace Greeley, who was brought
up, as we say, from childhood in YER
mont went down with his trade and
dollar in has pocket to dispute the sway
OF Gordon Bennett. He started the New
Yorker and il became the great Tribune.
Henry ]. Raymond, the prince OF journal
lists, started the Times, which unearthed /
the Tweed Ring. Vermonters were then
Mortified at graft. / nope they are still.
Dr. Spaulding founded the Evening Post.
These three leading papers have ever
since been power in the politics OF New
York, and IN moulding public opinion IN
the country at large. Later, young YER
monter captured the Harper plant. Ihus
Vermont placed its seal on the press OF
New York.
We gave you statesmen also-Nm. M.
Eyarts, your senator, the secretary OF
state without peer at your barr Levi r.
Morton, your governor, vice president, /
still a power In the financial worldi
Chester A. Arthur, the polished presi-
sided over BY a Nermonter, and Mr..
Roosevelt brings Vermonter back from
the West TO preside over the biggest bank
on earth, the United States Treasury.
Thus New Workers recognize merit in
W haler's garb, polish IL up 10 suit and
put il at the head. You have more cor
undum on Manhattan than all the rest
OF the world.
So much good blood has been drawn
from Vermont, that / have feared when
our old Senators who gained such in
fuenee in the Senate should pass away,
there would be found no fitting success
sors. But when senator Edwards re-
signed there sprsng from quarry that
sterling man. Redfeld Proctor, solid and
W hite as the marble OF Vermont. He
fairly leaped into the confidence OF the
senate and country. When Senator Nor
rill passed of the stage after service
OF forty years, thirty of them IN the
senste, Gov. Dilling ham, type OF the
New Vermont, came 10 the front, and his
speech on statehood stamped him as
worthy successor to the man who framed
the tariff laws that carried us through
the civil war, and made il possible Tor ;
the Ohio man TO float his greenbacks.
When President Mckinley was hating [
over the lurid tales ne heard about Cuba,
be called Senator Edmunds to his councils
over the international feature. Then he
sent Senator Proctor to Cuba to bring him
The cold unvarnished truth. He made ms
statement to the Senate.
The whole world believed every word OF
il. rhe conflict was set. An order
flashed TO a Vermonter at Hong Kong 70
speed to Manila and destroy the Spanish
1eet. II was done. Nermonters do
things, and they will be found In any part
of the world ready for a good job. An
order flashed to Capt Clark at San Fran
,isco to take the Oregon round the Horn
m thirty days, and he came up like Mont q
.or to Merrimac, just in time to put mn
sh on the Spanish fleet at Santiago. | re-
-ret 70 say there were a New Yorker and
Marylander in the offing, fighting with
telescopes, and they have been quarreling
,yer since over which should have the
,lory. Vermont got two admirals and did
lot care fig for their contention.
But enough / alute you men OF the
sr,,rnir. sfafa Nav York. great and grand