Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-04-29
Vermont's Delegation.

vermont's Delegation.
The state convention to elect dele
gates to the national convention to be
held in Chicago to nominate Theodore
Roosevelt for president is a thing of the
past. To know the quality of Vermont
republicanism is to know that the work.
was well done. The delegates at large
are Senator Dillingham;, DR.. w. S.
Webb, II. N. Turner and Ii. S. Bing-
ham. The delegates from the second
district are Charles II. Downer and
James F. Hooker; those from the first
district are II. w. Allen and j. f.
Manning. This is strong delegation
and truly representative of Vermont re-
publicans. Senator Foraker most elo-
quently sounded the keynote of Roose-
welt republicanism and his words found
great echo in all hearts. The platform
adopted is strong as our rugged hills and
as loyal to principles, those which stand
for the prosperity of the nation, as are
our sons and daughters to truth and
honor. This platform was prepared 10y
j. l.. Southwick, editor of the Free
Press. Be it still the Old Vermont or
the New, she has ever been and still is
a state great in her history, great in her
hopes and rich in the present personnel
of her citizenship. September will find
her on the side of progress for the ma
ton of which she is a part. To repub-
licanism as expressed in the strenuous
personality of Theodore Roosevelt she
will he loyal. Following is the platform
referred to:
We rejoice that in the semi-centennial
Of the Republican party we can survey
a record of progressive measures and
benefcent achievement without paral-
lei since the founding of our republic.
Our party has gained pre-eminence
in constructive craftsmanship through
measures like the Morrill, tariff and sue
cessive great systems OF protection for
American industry; national banking,
specie payment and gold standard laws ;
the college grant act for the benefit OF
our American youth; emancipation,
Southern reconstruction, and the open.
ing and development of our vast West
the glorious launching of the Cuban re.
public and the extension of the bless.
ings of our American institutions and
the possibility Of progressive home rule
to the long oppressed inhabitants of the
Philippines.
The Republican party has withstood
every assault upon our national integrity
whether IF slave power or of rebellion
or of reputation, or of silver imitation
or of supervision of our federal courts
and it still stands as the peoples bull
wark against the waves of populistic
fanaticism which are ever breaking
through the Democratic barriers and
threatening to dash upon the national
capital
In our semi4Nntenuary it is fitting
for Republicans to recall the illustrious
Services of host of great party leaders,
and to weave fresh garlands in memory
of our martyred Presidents, the heroic
Lincoln, the revered Garfield, the be.
loved Mckinley.
The Republicans of Vermont heartily
endorse the able, honest, fearless and
thoroughly American administration OF
President Roosevelt. He has been pat
ron of no privileged bond syndicate, but
the champion of the people. He has un
covered and punished dishonesty anG
corruption in high places He has cut
that modern Gordian knot, the trust
problem, and assailed Illegal combina.
tons formed in restraint to trade. He
has been able to fling back the charge
of Republican insincerity on the 18TH
milan canal question, made in the Demo.
cratic national platform of 1900, and to
test both the sincerity and patriotism of
opposition leaders by giving them an
opportunity to support a Republican
treaty assuring American construction
and ownership of the Panama canal
His administration, through the peerless
John Hay, has gained for the United
States front rank in the worlds
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