Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-09-01
DEMOCRATIC RALLY.
Rev. John 8. Reardon and John r..
Senter Expound Party Doctrine.

Au VI Auof hiDbAtl hOANtHs ud-
semhledin Chandler Music hall last night
to listen to the Democratic campaign ar
guments as voiced by Rev. John B. Rear
don Of Springfield, the party's candidate
for lieutenant-governor, and Hon. John
H. senter OF Montpelier, an cid spellbin-
der Of the Vermont Democracy.
piano duet by Misses Ruby and Una
Allen Was the eurtain-raiser, and after it
P. c. Dodge introduced Mr.. Reardon.
This speaker stated first that the sue
cess or failure OF political parties should
depend upon living issues. Grandsons
ought not to feel just as their grandfath-
Fers did or vote like them, but should heed
the advice OF the young Quaker, who said
we should use our forefathers as guide
posts and not as hitching posts. The Is
sues The Republican party has been fight
ing for-slavery, the Civil war, protee-
tion-are dead issues.
We were promised in the last campaign
a revision OF the tarin downward, and
Taft said the revision should be down
ward, but now we find stockings taxed
higher than whiskey, sugar higher than
champagne and other equally inconsis-
tent ratings in the tarin schedule.
In regard to Republican extrayaganee,
] icA VI luA0 AAE AoNuA
Is a fair sample OF all the others. During
the Civil. war from 1s61-5, the expendi-
lures rose from $4,000, ,00o to 1922, ,O00-
600, and amounted in all to 1926, 45O, ,0B9
for those fve years OF the most disastrous
war that was ever waged. From 1905 to
1910--a period OF profound peaoe--the ex-
penditures OF the naval department have
mounted from f11O, 600, 900 to t131, ,000,-
] mn I'D HaA nd total ~ WE-Q
\ 220, i04.
Look at the state of Vermont, whose
expense account is half million dollars
more than it was ten years ago. We fat
ter ourselves that we have no direct state
tax, because the corporation tax covers
the cost OF government. Does any one inn
agine that the corporations are so philan-
thropically disposed as to shoulder the
heavy burden OF state expenditures to
their own loss That corporation tax is
a rank robbery Of the people, who pay out
OF their own pockets all the corporations
are assessed. The railroads make their
| freight and passenger rates higher to meet
their tax; the telephone and telegraph
companies do the same, and the banks
lower the rate Of interest to depositors for
like purpcse. There may be no direct
]
| il comes pretty directly out Of you.
Consider how Republican promises
have been kept, concerning the employers
liability law for instance. We we're prom
ised such a law and employers, many OF
them, would have welcomed it as the
right settlement OF their difficulties, but
we didn't get it. Today the injured em-
ploye sues for damages, and his case is
carried from court TO court until the law
yers have all that Is ever likely to come to
him.
The high cost OF living, Of which all
complain, is due to the high protective
tariff OF the Republicans, which benefits
the trusts instead OF the people. Machin-
cry, the very tools of the workman and
the farmer, cost more in this country
than they do in Canada under free trade
We have been told that without protec-
tion our WORKING men would be compel /
led to compete with foreign labor, living
on miserable pittance IN miserable nov
els, but the foreign laborer, instead Of stey /
ing at home, where free trade would I
keep him, is coming over here to compete /
with the American workman on his Own
ground. In Springfield is shoddy mill, /
the largest in the world, aud in II ere em- ,
ployed SO Polanders, Who live in a tene
meut, hich is hardly big enough for an |
American family OF ive and which reeks
OF filth. What we need is a high tr-'~
on foreign paupers instead Vt on lore 81 :
goods.
John II. sentcr ~ Most felier, tho ----' 1
speaker, was the viGnFcrs. witty es.l..
paign orator be fiwsvs is and made the
points of his argL...14ts sharp enough to
stick in the minds OF bis hearers.
He addressed himself more particularly
to Republicans because he said he knew
there were hardly enough Democrats in
Randolph to make things interesting.
But Democrats and Republicans, II true
Vermonters, are honest men, no will
remember their freeman's oath next Tues
day and vote so that they will not be
ashamed to look anyone in the face.
The platforms OF the two parties are
practically identical. Both approve Of
the employers liability Law, good schools,
exempting laborer's wages from being
trusted up TO 80 or more and both con
denim the use of money In elections. In
this state Democrat ought to be safe
from suspicion Of paying out money to
secure the nomination to any office in the
gift OF his party. Mr.. Senter declared
that be had frequently bolted his party's
ticket and proposed to do so again when
ever the party nominates candidates undt
TO receive the suffrage Of honest voters.
Never have Republican newspapers in
this state been known to bolt the party
ticket until.this year, but now some OF
the best Of them openly repudiate the
head Of the ticket, and a good many Of
the rest "broke into a deep silence" after
the last state convention. You may
think you are free men but, party bound,
ypu are worse slaves than was ever the
black man IN Virginia. You have not
voted for the last 20 years in Vermont;
you have simply been voted. Your
highest state Office has been up st auction
and knocked down to-you know whom.
In the convention at Montpelier
prominent Republican from Burlington
asked, 'sTs this the first time money has
been used for political purposes in Yer
month"; aud replied 30 bis own question,
q No But ! ask you, should t not be
the last timeg The knights Tempiar and
the old Christian armies fought under the I
Gross. "ln hoe siguo vince, ''-in this i
slgu we conquer-but the sign under
which the Republican candidate for gog ,
ernor in this state trusts 10 conquer is the
dollar mark Had ii net been for the use