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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1908-06-18

CANDIDATES NOMINATED

But location rather than luck causes
The frequent selection OF Chicago The
riiy il geographically considerable
distance from the center. but II II not
far from the population center OF the
United States In the matter Of trans
portatipns. both by water on the great
takes and by rail, Chicago Is unsur.
passed. II is the greatest railroad cen
ter In America, though IN danger OF
losing Its premiership IN that respect
10 Kansas City Ono may reach Chi
eago with comparative ease from any
place In the United States where there
II railroad connection. Another advan-
tagc 81 the city for great conventions
Il that Of hotel facilities. SO big Is
Chicago that the many thousands OF
extra visitors who attend the national
conventions create scarcely ripple OF
excitement 40 far as numbers are con
ccrned They can 10 accommodated
with ease. aud even swallowed up In
the vast shrongs without being pariIe.
ulariy noticeable.
Chicago aud New York are the only
titles In America where this condition
prevails New York being too far 20
one side OF the country, Chicago thus
becomes the Inevitable convention city.
Chicago makes no particular effort 10
pbtain great conventions, knowing that
they belong 10 her as natural right
snd win come anyhow.
The population OF Chicago Is now mp.
prosimaiely 2.ooo,oc0 The eity's area
IL about go square miles, For twenty
six niles along the shore Of Lake Mich
igan the great city stretches. running
back ten or more miles inland.
The growth Of Chicago was one OF
the world wonders OF the nineteenth
teatury. Ia the year 1880. when the
fiw, national political convention In
the United States was held, that Of
the Anti Masonic party. Chicago was
merely collection o. log houses. with
k,ss than hundred inhabitants
When the second Republican national
convention. which was the first 20 he
held In Chicago. met III 1900 and nom.
mated Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal
IIsmIIn for president and vice presi
dent the population was less than no.
600 II was busy. hnsiling burg, 10
be sure. where the Republican dele
gates gathered In the famous wig.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1908-06-18

II cred an address before The New
England Medical society 10 New la.
ven. c., las, week. He was de' gate
from the Vermont State Modest so.
eiety.
Albert George ~ Barnard has hen
which built is nest 10 pine tree The
ucsi is on branch 40 feet from the
ground. She has laid four eggs aud
leelns perfectly content ia her position
where she can watch the passers by.
Loais Neycaux o. Montpelier. who
sas shot b. Miss Christine Baa four
weeks ago. i able u he dressed and
sakc short walks. aud b. expects soon
= be discharged from lleaion hospital.
rhe ballet that lodged in bis spine has
~ been removed.
The standing timber on the Aldrieh
hrm situated between Montpelier and
tarrc, estimated al 900 900 feet. has
been purchased by fAil a odell. coal
ssa wool deAless q Montpelier. The
FRA j. owned by tbs officials q The
Montpelier 4 Barre electric railroad.
The evangelical parish in Montpelier
Ad Eass Montpelier, which has been
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1908-06-18
Republican
The Coming oos Will
BE- the Seventh -

~HicAGU " ihs fsrorte rlsy Eol
nfgnaiicaa Bsfiasisi ceutsnfsegs
~ ~ lhr siarseea tsmaawBaiRi tan
fensieus hela ~ this grszi ~
fisasi party sSne 80 tanh NE haEe
i~~a heid III ChaosEo Jlsis Fear ca
are " agsiH the aaesssng plane. The
HsgalaieAn eOnffntia4 ngnus tlsert
iune W. W nstninaie esBdsdages CO..
president aud slee president " ihg
imii~d states Thus 10 si4e FTaSt itli.
h0ss nietroIails must he credited e.
aNg haif ~ Tho Bsiaaaal eonscutiohs
" ibs neIsubiiesn party. viiis ms
lAsH0rfntic party hks issid four % sis
sinesfsn EAiionai conventions IN chi.
rags
F.rai ~ the Rrrullicsn psr'y's Chi.
ago rosrrn,tan Was that of IS9. for
~t4 pensofstse for hstinE dominated
.cf president the aiasiFsaas c,naaripa
~. AbrabAni Lincoln In 1865 the ron
fen,iop sgaib was hcM ia Chicago, the
togaih~ ,.einr The resoad Krrst ngufc
NAsNRlN'a w thf NsFN MAN heANNsh r.
Grant iisgihnlhF wilh isso three cen
esnliye conventions TBei III Chicago
rhsi q the rear mentioned nosninaiei
lanes A. Garfield IN 1885, James q.
Blaine Was named. while 10 isss the
ianrention placed flsnlamin Harrison
Ia domination fu fhfes convention
F~nw ihe Heruti iesna again described
the great city on i.ais Michigan's
,bare. bu, IN 1904 the convention
est ID chicaRo. nominating Tbesdore
Roosevelt
OF ihe sin Candidates notGinsied AT
chleago by the Republican party all
BOT one have been elected Blaine was
li,e oaiy candidate who failed 70 win
lincoln. Grant. CARRIED. Harrison and
Roosevelt were sent 10 the White
House ~ way ot Chicago i've ri.
nmpts oui 81 six trials make nn excel.
-nt showing for Chicago - a lucky
place for the launching Of presidential
9oTninccs.
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Bennington. The employees OF the
mill by means OF q boat pulled Berry
from the water before life was extinct
and made efforts at resuscitation, hut
he died almost Immediately. He was
10 an intoxicated condition.
a trolley ear leaving Bennington at
$50 0 o'clock Monday morning over the
Bennington 4 Hoosac Valley line ran
of the track south Of WalIoomsac. Sew
erai passengers we're badly hurt. Mrs.
James Martin. Of Bennington, suffered
broken shoulder. The ear went
through bsrbed wire fence. The mo-
torman. Frank Vail, was badly cui.
The John Jones Co, 3 slate mill. lo-
Gated 10 remote part Of casileton,
was burned to The ground Saturday
night The los is $4,000, partially
covered by insurance. Forty men are
thrown out Of work. The mill was
owned principally b Willis Mott, Of
New York. II vas buiii IN the iifties.
The origin Of The fire is not known.
The rasiieion hose company was sum
lnoned and succeeded 10 saving adjoin-
ing buildings.
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vember by Cleveland and Adlai H. Ste
venson Of Illinois.
st. Louis was the convention city IN
1896. The Auditorium, built specially
for such affairs, held 1900 people
Charles w. Fairbanks, then candi.
date to succeed Senator Voorhees, OF
Indiana, was temporary chairman.
Senator Thurston OF Nebraska was
permanent chairman. For six weeks
McKinley's nomination had been a
foregone conclusion. Carrot A. Ho-
bart Of New Jersey was made the
vice presidential nominee A dramatic
incident was the withdrawal from the
convention Of Senator Teller OF Colo
RADIO and other free silver delegates,
the convention having adopted gold
standard platform.
Senator Wolcott Of Colorado was
temporary chairman and Senator Lodge
of Massachusetts, permanent chairman
Of the 1900 convention In Philadelphia,
where President Mckinley was unani.
mously renomlnated. BY special lnyi.
tatlon seven Of the 1856 convention
survivors were present. Governor
Theodore Roosevelt Of New York was
named for vice president against his
own protest Roosevelt was dele
gate. lie received all the votes but
one. bis own.
In 1904 at Chicago the temporary
chairman was Ellhu Root and the per
manent chairman Speaker Cannon.
Cannon refused TO run for vice presi.
dent Senator cusfom led an effort to
nominate Congressman II. X Hit Of
Illinois for the place. President Roose-
welt and Senator Fairbanks were unan.
imously nominated for president and
vice president
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1908-06-18
IN VERMONT.

A light fros, visited portions 81 the
winooski valley Tuesday nigh,. The
srecas vas nos hard enough 10 Do AMI
damage.
The Central Vermont railway Is pre-.
psring 10 tear down iss old station IN
Barre tor the pmrpose ~ building a
new one
uBi,esi States Senator William Dit.
lingham returned 10 bis home IN Mont.
peliel "Wednesday for ihc vacation 81
Congress. and be- will sPesd most 81
ilsc time IN ihsi cisy.
Ina recent severe thunder and had
storm n coseniry. many rAnes 81
glass wcv broken by The had stones,
inclading ~ windows ii the school
house.
The work GA The new Qacehce lib.
tNry building has been begun. The
building vii be q brick with grAplss
trimmings and eae Story high, Red
birch VII he ased tor The interior en-
ish.
Dr. G. W, Howard o. shorehan de-
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nagldiy The great rily grew ur into the
81 NJ ueli a. out on The prairie Her
lain sp4i STREETS brcame canyons
ihrngh nhlch poured rivers ~ hU'
sanity hciwcen PERCEPTIONS walls. tow
tliag cliffs shrisei with suits 81
fnams wherein MAS transacted a large
Portion u that business which makes
Amwics a matter Of marvel 10 the
more slow going old world
Ataui the only commemorative AFFAIR
that chicago eyer went after with
ferce determination because Of the
fear tina, II would 80 somewhere else
was the Columbian exposition or
Worlds fair OF 1888. Chicago wanted
the exposition Just TO prove 10 New
York, her chief competitor that the
city by the lake was also place not
10 he sneexed A. New York, which Is
too big 10 care penny about such
things AS general rule. pouied aud
sulkei for several years because The
western wonder carried on the Worlds
fair prize.
The exposition really hurt Chicago
more than II helped and for the rather
pamdoxlcal reason that the city was
well enough known already and did
not need the publicity attending a
successful fair. Chicago's continued
growth was inevitable anyway. and
the exposition merely demoralized mat.
tiers frr time But Chicago got over
her Worlds fair, as she got over her
blg Ere. both the champions IN their
respective lines AZ the time they hap
pened II requires worse calamity
than a confagratlon or exposition
20 KIN or city situated like Chicago
Chicago has many beauties and aes.
thctic things There Is Lincoln park,
FOR Instance. With the Lincoln statue
and the lake shore drive. There IL
Jackson park. with Its Field museum.
relic Of the late Worlds
fair. There Is the Newberry library.
aud a great big public library, not Car.
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neglzed, but all home built. There are
miles and miles and miles Of splendid
homes, and there are monuments and
fountains and an art institute There
Is even a literary set, some members
OF which byphenate their names. Pork
packing and slaughter housing are by
no means the prevailing features Of
Chicago.
Such Is the city into which Will pour
the Republican hosts for the June con
vention. Delegates and alternates will
trek Chicagoward from each of our
forty-six states, from every one Of the
congressional districts therein and
from the states at large" from all
the territories, both at home and
abroad The Philippines, Porto Rico,
Hawaii and Alaska win send their del
egates Tagalogs, Spaniards. Kanakas
and plain miners transplanted from
the United States to the far north
There will he $50 delegates with
seats and votes In the convention.
like number OF alternates will have
seats II they care to attend, as most Of
them will, and some OF them will have
votes In the absence OF their respec.
tive delegates. In the Republican ma
tional convention a majority Ia suffi
Client to nominate candidates. This
year 491 votes will be enough. The
Democratic national convention re
guires a two-thirds vote.
The Republican convention will be
held In the Coliseum, which is one OF
the largest halls In the world. 1t is 10.
rated at Wabash avenue and Fifteenth
street, on the site where stood during
The exposition the famous Libby prison
building transported from Richmond
lnd set up brick by brick. The Coli
scum was built In 1900 and Is perma
nent structure ~ steel, stone and glass
II is 800 feet long 100 feet wide and
fea,s 10000 people. Horse shows.
horticultural displays and other great
events have been held In the Coliseum.
which is to Chicago what Madison
Square Garden is TO New York.
According TO the slate makers, who
may or may not be correct In their
William ii. Taft viii
be nominated for the presidency on the
first ballot and Charles Warren Fair
banks Will be renominated for the vice
presidency
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receive votes In the convention for
the presidential nomination may be
mentioned In alphabetical order 10.
seph q. Cannon, Charles w. Fairbanks,
Joseph b, Foraker, Charles f. Hughes.
Philander G. Knox, Robert NJ La Fol.
lette and William ii. Taft. From all the
states and territories $50 delegates win
sit In the convention, which will be
called to order by Harry s. New, chair
man OF the Republican national com
mittee. A majority, or 49l votes, will
suffice to nominate.
Fifty-two years ago the first Repub
llcan national convention, where eau
didates were nominated, was held In
Philadelphia.
Robert Emmett OF New York was
temporary chairman o: this historic
convention, which came to order In
Musical Fund hall, on Locust street
The permanent chairman was Henry
y. Lane Of Indiana. About 700 dele.
gates and 1000 spectators were pres
ent. On the 18th of June the famous
Pathfinder OF the Rockies" John c.
Fremont. then Of California, was
named for president on the first ballot.
For vice president William l.. Dayton
Of New Jersey was nominated. Day
ton received all but thirty-one votes on
the first ballot Twenty Of the oppos-
Ing votes were cast for comparative.
ly obscure lawyer Of Springfield, Ill.,,
named Abraham Lincoln.
In 1850 the Republican convention
first met In Chicago, which has come
to be Its favorlte meeting place. May
IL the body was called to order in a
structure known as 1.-THE Wigwam,"
about 10000 people being present. VIII
liam H. Seward of New York was the
leading candidate prior to the conyen.
tion and also on the first ballot. His
name was placed before the conven-
ton by William NJ. Evarts of New
York. Norman Judd Of Illinois placed
Abraham Lincoln In nomination amid
tremendous applause and some Kisses.
Carl Schurz, then of Wisconsin, sec
onded Stewards nomination. Mr.. De-
lano Of Ohio arose and said:
II desire to second the nomination
OF the man who can split rails and
maui Democrats, Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln passed Seward on the second
ballot and was nominated for president
on the third ballot, receiving 354 votes
TO 1l0la for Seward. For the vice pres
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The Grammar School at Pownsl
closed Friday with exercises in the M.
r. church. The Graded School at North
Pownal will close June 10, with appro.
pirate exercises.
The ten monthsold son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Myron Campbell Of Pownal Cen
ter died Saturday after a short illness
with cold and sore throat. Rev. j. G..
Mitchell officiated at the funeral SER
vice IN Union church Sunday.
Mrs. Weltha Towne Of Nebraska 10
visiting her former home after an ali:
sence Of twenty years. Her husband
Is cousin Of Miss Ellen Stone. so
much read of few years ago. when
captured by brigands IN Turkey.
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/ favor OF the selection Of John Il.
Lynch. the first negro ever selected to
preside over a national convention as
temporary chairman.
The nominees OF this convention
were James q. Blaine OF Maine for
president and John A. Logan OF iii
pois for vice president.
At the convention OF 1883 In Chi.
cago Chauncey NJ. Depew was a lead.
ing candidate. John Sherman and
Blaine were also far to tho front
IN the running. Colonel Ingersoll was
there, but he was strongly opposed 20
the nomination OF his "Plumed knight"
Blaine was travelling In Europe at the
time. Ingersoll favored Judge Walter
q. Gresham "of Indiana and Illinois"
John Sherman led on the first and
second ballots. Depew, who ran
fourth, then withdrew. One delegate
voted for Mckinley. who arose aud
declared that he was for John Sher-
man and could not permit his name TO
go before the convention. After a
struggle lasting six days Depew's New
York strength was thrown to Benja.
min Harrison, who received the nom
nation for president, with Levi l..
Morton Of New York as the vice presi.
dental nominee.
William Mckinley was permanent
chairman and j. Sloat Fassett of New
York temporary chairman of the 1902
convention In Minneapolis beginning
June g. In this convention for the
first time women delegates sat, two OF
that sex being accredited from the
state Of Wyoming, where women vo,e
Speaker Thomas b. Reed was spec
tator In Exposition hall. close to the
falls OF st. Anthony. on the Missls
sippi river. where the convention sat
Mr. Depew also was there with
speech. Mckinley was ''the most dra
matte figure In the hall, the mGn who
looks like Napoleon" President Har
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hours until heavy rain checked It
An area OF the city 2.02i acres in ex-
tent was burned, Including the main
business and residential sections, en-
failing loss Of Sls7 100000. Chicago
soon outgrew the big fire" and forgot
about II. There were too many other
big things 10 think about constructive,
not destructive
For one thing, Chicago had 10 teach
the rest OF the world how to build sky
scrapers. About quarter OF a cen.
tury ago the first building of the sky
scrapinG type IN the world was erected
In Chicago, being made possible by the
use OF the steel skeleton framework.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1908-06-18
BANKING by Mani.

Banking by mail has always been a
specially with the Hyde Park Savings
Bank. II is not only easy but perfectly
safe. Money may BIZ sent at the Bank :
risk by Postal Money Order. Express
Money Order. or Check. For partieu.
lars regarding any point. address G. =.
Page. President; or u NJ. Culver,
Treasurer.
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hency Hannibal Hamlin Of Maine was
nominated on the second ballot, his
thief competitor being Cassius Marcel.
lus Clay Of Kentucky.
In 1864 the convention met In Balti-
more June I, the temporary chairman
being the venerable Rev. DR.. Robert j..
Breckenridge Of Kentucky. William
Dennison Of Ohio was permanent
chairman. The Front Street theater
was the meeting place, and the body
was called by some northerners the
National Union convention, preserva
tion OF the Union being the paramount
issue. Lincoln was renominated for
president on the first ballot
The celebrated "Parson' Brownlow Of
Tennessee placed before the house for
the vice presidency the name OF An.
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rison was re-
nominated on
the first ballot
and for vice
p r g S ! d Q II [
Whitelnw Reid.
editor Of the
New York 'frib.
une, was named
unanimously.
Depew IS elo-
quent speech In
IL Q m | n a Ing
Harrison was
the hit Of the
conv e u [ Ion.
B n | II g again
was placed In
nomination, re-
ceiving Is 2
votes. McKin-
ley, t h o u g h
chairman, re-
ceiyed 1872 votes
for the nomina-
ton. Harrison
and Reid were
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BpNNAI.
Rev. +. l.. Dow of Rutland was
here Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. b. w. Marshall Of
Rutland have returned after visiting
Mrs. Hattie Miner.
DR.. Walter Sumner Of North Gran
vile was in town last week superiutend.
ing repairs on the Hotel l,ro0kside.
Otis Dorman, the seven yeat.old
son Of Mr.. aud Mrs. Tracy Dorman, is
seriously III With typhoid pneumonia.
-. X. Hilliard and Thomas Arm:
strong were 10 Williamstown recently
forthe Williams-Trinity base ball game.
Judge keltoH Of Boston is board
ing at BDwDell Wilcox's. June 7 and
IA be supplied The pulpit Of the Con-
gregational church
Mrs. Emma Card and granddaugb-
ter, Miss Wella Lyon, left Tuesday for
Phoenix, Arizona. whore they will re-
main some months.
The semi-annnal business and eiee-
ton Of oiiirers Of the Christian En-
deayor Society 81 the Congregational
church sss held Tuesday evening, June
10.
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I'm r. ! v VI =
i teenth M.
tional con
yentlon OF the
Republican par.
ty viii meetJune
III In the Coli
scum at Chica.
90 10 nominate
candidates for
president o n d
vice president OF
he U tie d
States. Among
the well known
men who In all
nrnl.nl.llltr mill
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HlCAGU N fhe fsruSte rlsF for
Iisg5nbiicss siaicsutsntsea
- ~ Yilr si.srgpea asaaawuhias tnn
The Washington times., 1908-08-23

time you tried To look at your cards.
ana tIsn wflted. clinging ia a madden
ing state Of doughty cohesiveness TO
your persbiring and uncom| >rtabIe
neck
II was far better than the "a idea.
this card party on the porch. and il
was taken up by society as only
things can be taken up by an ennui-
stricken people who at last believe
they have discovered something real
" enjoyable.
Cards nave heretofore been regard
I'd as essentially a winter pleasure
40 be classsd with the opera
The sudden change Of al rulings
regarding when to play cards has
apparently met with universal ap-
provaL Mrs Perry Belmont on visit
ing New York suggested the idea 10
the elite OF that city, where It was
accepted as rapaciousiy as It had been
here.
Not all Of the families. in town are
thinking Of giving outdoor card par
ties" The idea is to be taken 10 the
mountains. TO the seaside, TO Maine.
and 20 Florida. It is to spread wher-
ever Wasaington's -four hundred"
spends its August and September va
cations
Perhaps one or the most remark
able facts concerning the spread Of
outdoor card parties first from an
idea 70 q fad. them from a fad 10
craze. Is that about four years ago an
effort was made in Philadelphia 10
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start the same innovation. which
proved an utter and inglorlous failure.
Whether IL was TOO startling for con
servaive Quakers, or whether its
drowsiness proved too much IN the
natural order Of things in that city
is not known A Mrs. Harrison Fish,
relative OF the famous magnate, at
tempted the idea. and while her ef-
forts were crowned with success, the
endeavOrs Of others TO make outdoor
cards a popular craze, eventually
failed
The advantages Of summer cards are
many Summer card games combine
the pleasures Of the may waltz. the
hay fever conversation with the light
Of your life on the front porch. with
father inquiring savageIy at inter
walls Of five minutes whether that
young man is going to stay all night
or not, with the excitement Of game
Of chance, and yet II has none OF the
Disadvantages.
According to all who have PLAYED,
there Is nothing more enjoyable than
sitting opposite a pretty girl on a sum
mer night when the cards are flying
fast, while the lights burn low the
while YOU know that the vision wiz
not last. There is a subtle summer
fascination about card playing by
moonlight that is not possessed except
by the f0rJune-teliing OF a pretty maid
or halloween
And according TO those who have play
ed the new idea, the advanced thought
IS in Washington to stay.