The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-07-08

TAYLOR read the call and called upon ex
Congressman Kittrcdge Haskins 20 ae'
as temporary chairman. Mr.. haskihi
esteemed the appointment a high honor
and Immediately began the delivery OF
SI minute spcech in defense OF the Payn,
tariff bill. The discourse was an able hui
decidedly uninteresting tariff discussion
in which Speaker Cannon and other u. "
y. wheelhorses came in for praise and
The newspapers Of the country for crit
cism because OF their attitude toward the
stand.patters. Frequent rhetorical pause
gave opportnnity for applause. but u
failed 10 materialize until the speaker had
finished and then was hardly loud enough
10 awaken DIR. Foster OF Putney and other
delegates who had fallen into dose. The
temporary organization was perfected by
the naming OF w. Z. Hubbard OF Brattle..
boro secretary and II. =. Whitney Of
Brattleboro and t. +. OBrien OF Rock
ingham vice presidents. ;. A. Daniels
was named for assistant secretary but ne
refused the honor and A. V. ID. Piper OF
Jamaica was chosen in his place. On
motion of II. q. Barber the list OF dele
gates as made up by the county committee
was adopted as the roll OF the convention
and the temporary organization was made
permanent. w. r. Daley OF Brattleboro
moved that the chairman appoint com
mittee of five on resolutions. The chair
man was willing, and after asking Vice.
President Whitney to get me that list
read the following names: w. II. Daley
of Brattleboro, c. II. Williams of Rock
ingham. A. A. Butteriield of Nottingham,
A. V. d. Piper of Jamaica and c. H..
Grout of Townshend.
Next in order was the nomination of a
candidate for senator from the south end
OF the county, and Rev. H. II. Shaw OF
Marlboro presented the name OF Edwin
p. Adams. "a prosperous. progressive.
well-to-do farmer. true to his convictions,
not an insurgent, and republican from
the beginning" No other name was
Forthcoming and Mr.. Adams was nomi.
mated by acclamaton. The first and
longest fight of the day came on the
other senatorship X. +. Marsh of Brook.
line nominated J. g. Martin of that
town, C. II. Crosby of Brattleboro nomi-
mated +. NJ. Butler of Jamaica and n. G.
Williams of Rockingham presented the
name of H. d. Ryder, Mr.. Williams tax.
ing occasion to mention Mr.. Ryder's long
service on the Rockingham board OF
education and his familiarity with taxa.
ton matters A. V. d. Piper seconded
Mr.. Buffers nomination in speech that
made reference to the fact that the West
river valley had not had senator for
six years. w. E. Hubbard seconded the
of Mr. Ryder. Fl. G. Barber
that of Mr. Martin, j. +. Gleason of
Wardsboro that of Mr. Butler and Lee
Gale of Londonderry that of Mr.. Martin.
These men were appointed tellers and the
first ballot resulted as follows:
Total .............:.. ...............l02
Necessary for choice. ............. 80
Butler OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. JU
Martin OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 70
Ryder ...................... 70
With no choice on the first ballot the
distribution of slips for a second was at
once started. While this was in progress
the chair named committee of five to
nominate county committee, the nomi- |
mating committee being W. G. Belknap
If Rockingham, Z. w. Gibson of Brattle-
Doro, j. H. Kidder of Wilmington, L. H. |
Lynde of Dummerston and +. A. Davis |
If Londonderry. Mr.. Daley for the COM
nittee on resolutions then reported as
ollows:
'rThe republicans of Windham county,
n convention assembled, do hereby |
approve the platform of principles adop-
ed by the republican state convention
leld at Montpelier on the 30th ultimo.
Particularly, we heartily endorse the
of President William How
lrd Taft, and we recognize in him an
executive of great ability and sound
we applaud his patient
md loyal efforts to redeem the pledges