St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-07-03
COUNTY CONVENTION
Some Surprises When Republicans
Nominated Officers w. A.
DuttOn for States Attorney.


The Caledonia county republican
convention was held at the town
hall Saturday forenoon and brought
out some surprises as the nomina-
ton for county officers were called
for. c. A. Calderwood defeated F..
M. Page for the first senatorship by
a vote of 33 to 80. When nomina-
tions for second senator were called
| for G. T. Eastman of Walden was
nominated in opposition to L. A.
Darling of Burke. No contest had
been expected and the Darling men
had no ballots ready but marked
enough with pencil and paper so that
when the vote was counted L. A.
Darling had 43 and Judge Eastman
20. The next ballot was on second
assistant judge when Fred Hoffman
OF Wheelock was nominated by a
vote Of "a to 28 for w. H. jeffrey
of East Burke. The biggest sur
prise came when nominations for
states attorney were called for. w.
A. Dutton Of Hardwick who had not
allowed the use of his name as a
candidate earlier in the season was
placed against N. A. Norton of
Lyndonville and nominated by a vote
of 34 to %.
A new system of electing a county
committee was also adopted having
a member from each town in the
county and they were elected by the
convention. G. A. Bunker of
Peacham served as chairman of the
convention and made a very good
speech upon taking the chair. The
convention was called to order at IL
and completed it's work and adjourn
ed at 12.45.
Story of the Convention.
G. c. Frye, chairman of the coun- |
ty committee called the convention |
to order and asked the Rev. E. e.
Grant of East st. Johnsbury to offer |
prayer. The call for the convention |
was read by the secretary of the |
county committee, o. c. Woodruff |
of Burke. Chairman Frye then /
announced that the committee had |
selected G. A. Bunker of Peacham
as temporary chairman and G. r.
Winch of McIndoes as temporary
Mr.. Bunker thanked the
convention for the honor shown him
and spoke of the glorious history the !
party had made in the So years of
it's existence. He said that in 1864
he went 100 miles to cast his vote
for Abraham Lincoln and had voted
with the party ever since. For AZ
years he had been coming here to
county conventions each time with
hope and enthusiasm for the ma
tional candidates of the party. To-
day it is different after a campaign |
of bitter personalities. He would
not hold any one man responsible |
for the present situation but urged |
all to forget past differences and
work for the success of the party all |
had been so proud of. We are here
today to decide upon our county /
candidates. Let us have a square
drop all our quarrels and putting |
forward our best men work for the
success of the party.
The temporary organization was
made permanent and the report of /
the committee on resolutions called
for. The members of the committee |
were H. A. Blake of Sutton, Har-
vey Burbank of Danville and w. N.
Gilfllan of South Ryegate. Mr..
Gilfillan was unable to be present
on account of illness and Messrs.
Burbank and Blake presented the
following resolutions which were
adopted.
Resolutions.
We, the constituted representa-
tives of the Republicans of Gale
donia county in convention met, af
firm the continuance of our full con-
fdence in the ability and integrity