News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1904-07-06
THE STATE CONVENTION.
Bell lL.5c!ua on First .a'i5l. Scans
Gets Second Plsca. The Cher
Sale Officers 4,csiGt BY
ACCaMmaI.gN.

nominated for Governor on the FIRST
ballot at Montpelier on Thursday.
Six hundred and cighty-six OF the
seven hundred aud tWenty-eight del
egates elected were in attendance,
and three hundred and seye4ty-three
cast their votes for Mr.. Bell Chas.
IL, Stearns Of Johnson was nominal
ed for Lieutenant Governor, receiving
1853 votes to 81 for DR.. John A.
Mead OF Rutland.
The convention was held in Ar
morv Hall and was called to order
at 1880 by Thad NJ Chapman OF
MiddIcbury, chairman Of The RepuD-
licau STATE committee, Prayer was
offered by Rev. G. c. Lamson of
Montpelier, and the chair announced
that Hon. D. J. Foster had been
chosen as temporary chairman. On
taking the chair Nh Fosterrevicwed
briefly the record Of the party for the
past half century and predicted a
sweeping victory for Roosevelt and
Fairbanks III November.
On motion the chair appointed the
following committee on resolutions !:
Beuning ton, .. NJ. Barber Of Ben
nington Addison, George Wood of
Orwell; Caledonia, 7. b. Hall Of Gro
ton; Chittenden, G. ". Bailey of Es-
sex Junction; Essex, E, NJ. Bartlett
of Island Pond; Franklin, L. c.
Leavens of Richford Grand Isle, N.
W. Fisk of Isle La Motto; LamoilIe,
Linus Leavens, Cambridge; Orange,
!. K, Darling of Chelsea; Orleans, @.
H. Prouty of Newport; Rutland H.
L. Clark, Castleton; Washington, n.
d. Phelps of Barre; Windham, F. B,
Pier of Jamaica; Windsor, George
Aitken of Woodstock.
The chair called for nominations
for Governor, and Mr.. Bell was
placed in nomination by W. A. Dut-
ton of Hardwick. The nomination
was ally seconded by several. Hon.
Frank Plumley of Mortified present
ed the name of Zed S. Stanton of
Roxbury, several seconding the nom
ination, Joseph A. DeBoer of Mont
pelier was placed in nomination by
w. A. Lord of that city. After sew
eral had eloquently seconded the
nomination the chair appointed tel
lers, and ballot was proceeded
with, resulting as before announced.
While the ballots were being count
ed. these officers were chosen by a
viva voce vote: John L. Bacon of
White River Junction for State Treas
urer, Frederick 6. Fleetwood of
Morrisville Secretary of State and
Horace F. Graham Of Craftsbury as
auditor of accounts.
In a brilliant speech Roger W. HUI
burd of Hyde Park placed the name
ofC. H. Stearns OF Johnson before
the convention, for Lieutenant Gov
ernor. DR.. ]. A. Mead of Rutland
was nominated by R. A. Lawrence.
The nominations were ably second
ed, and upon ballot being taken, Mr..
Stearns was found to be the choice
of the convention.
This State committee was elected
for two years: Addison county,
Thad M. Chapman of Middlebury;
Bennington, E. D. yelling of North
Bennington; Caledonia, Harry Blod-
gett of st. Johnsbury; Chittenden,
Fl. E. Wright of Essex Junction; Es-
sex, John H. Walbridge of Concord;
Franklin, F. c. Smith of St. Adams;
Grand Isle, Thaddeus L. Kinney of
Sonth Hero; Lamoille. S. B. Waite
of Hyde Park; Orleans, G. 7. How
ard of Crattsbury; Rutland, F. S.
Plat of Poultney: Washington,
Frank Plumley of Northfeld Wind
ham, 4. H. Albee of Bellows Falls;
Windsor, Alfred E. Watson of White
River Junction.
THE PLATFORM.
The Hon. o. NJ. Barber of Benning-
ton, chairman of the committee on
resolutions, reported the following
platform which was unanimously
adopted
The Republicans of Vermont, by their repre-.
sentatives in convention ssemhled again de-
clare their allegiance to the principles of the
Republican party and pledge their most loyal
and hearty support to it's candidates in the
coming presidential election.
In the nomination OF Theodore Roosevelt
to be the twenty-f ixth president Of the United
States, we recognize the same careful selection
and wise choice that has heretofore so abund
antly and successfully appealed to the cour-
age and the patriotism and the devotion of
blicans throughout our land, and believe
that by his election the continued prosperity
of the whole United States, irrespective of
creed. color, or political affiliations, will be
assured.
1t is with an honorable pride that we regard
the action OF our government, made possible
by the Republican party, in the prompt secur-
ing of a route connecting the waters of the
Atlantic and Pacific by an isthmian canal
Vermont, the Thea independent common
wealth that in 1777 adopted the first written
constitution prohibiting slavery, and one of
whose judges in early times declared that title
TO human chattel could only be shown by a
bill of sale from God Almighty, cannot now
look with indifference upon the attempts re-