The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-09

senators there.
ut is a great pleasure and grea
honor for me to say that even in my
short career | knew and had the hon
or of knowing well, for a man of my
age, your distinguished senator Jus
tin Morrell that | had a similar ben
eft in knowing well your distinguish
ed senator, George f. Edmunds anG
falso that rare avis, Vermont demo
crat that able jurist, that great diplo
mat, Edward J. Phelps.
Now. | have been good deal in
terested in trying to break up in a
sense-not exactly in a political sense
but in the sense that you will under
stand it-that of feeling and senti
ment-the solid South. And when
have suggested that. the irreyerent
southern politician has suggested that
| it is about time to break up the solid
north, and references are made to the
fact that Vermont is just about as sol
i'd as Alabama, and Georgia. 1t is my
own theory that Vermont and many
another northern state has been made
solidly republican because there was
a solid south, and that one of the ben
efits of breaking up a solid south
would be that there would be no sol.
idity anywhere on sectional lines.
But one thing | am bound to say,
that even If republican majorities are
pretty certain in Vermont, there is
something about the republican ma
jority in Vermont every four years
that man who has been a candidate
for the presidency studies with most
anxious concern, and that is whether
the majority of the people that favor
the republican ticket in Vermont at a
presidential election shall amount to
more than 10000 for If they don't, the
republican candidate ought to make
other arrangements for the next four
years.
Ambassador Bryce thanked the
president on beaalf of Great Britain
for the wise. friendly and genial
words which he expressed about
Canada
Ambassador Jusserand of France,
Postmaster General Lemieux OF Can
ada and Gov Hughes of New York
We're the other speakers. The presi-
dent left before they nad finished, his
plans making it necessary TO take a
train scheduled to leave at 1920 p. IN.
1t was 40 minutes later before his
train left the station.
Governor and Mrs. Hughes return
ed to Hotel Champaign at Bluff Point
last night on the yacht Valcour
Canada" was the subject of the
address delivered by Postmaster Gen.
eral Rodolphe LemieuX of Canada.
The speaker paid his respects TO Pres.
Taft by saying that the Canadians
claimed a part ownership in him on
account of the several hundred thous-
and of his countrymen who had gone
over the border and become citizens
of the United States. One of the
proudest memories in Canadian his
tory was the fact that the little Can
ada of so years ago sent no less than
5000 men to fight in the ranks Of the
north to maintain the ascendency OF
| the stars and stripes.
The weather conditions were ideal
| and the crowd in attendance was un-
doubtedly the largest ever assembled
| in the city. The decorations were not
only lavish but artistic and the ar
| rangements for the comfort of the
| people in attendance as complete as
the crowded conditions of the city
would permit.
The journey Of the presidential par.
ty from the boat landing to city hall
park where the exercises were held
was made through a street packed
with humanity. AT the stand in the
park President Taft faced crowd OF
at least 10000 people. The exercises
followed the military parade made up
of regular army troops. militia
Knights Templar and Algonquin lndi.
ans
Bishop A. c. A. Hall opened the ex.
ercises with the invocation, the large
crowd joining reyerently In the Lords
prayer. Governor Prouty, who presid-
ed. spoke briefly in reference to the
distinguished visitors who were to
take part in the exercises. He was
followed by Mayor Burke who extend
ed the freedom OF the city, by Cover
nor Hughes of New York wao paid a
glowing tribute to the memory of the
Vermont revolutionary heroes by Am
bassador Jusserand who touched upon
the beautiful scenery of Lake Cham
plain and the part that his own people
had taken in opening the valley to dis
covery and settlement and by Ambas-
sador Bryce who gave a vivid word
picture of the character of tne great
Frenchman in whose honor the cele-
bration had been planned. The con
Guiding speaker was Postmaster Gen
eral Rodolphe Lemieux of Canada
who made an eloquent plea for con-
tinuence of the cordial relations now
existing between Canada and the Uni
ted States.