The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-22
RALLY AT WEST FAIRLEE.
Two Large Crowds Greeted the Republi.
can Speakers.

West Fairlee, Aug. -Repablican
speakers yesterday waged war in Orange
county. the home Of Rev. Fraser Metz
ger the Bull Mooso uibernatorial candi
date, and were greeted by two large
crowds of cheering men and women.
The orators were Frank G. Archibald OF
Manchester, Thomas c. Cheney OF Nor
risyille and Warren r. Austin of st.
Albans The towns visited were Thet-
ford Center, in the late afternoon, and
this town in the evening
Mr.. Archibald declared at the outset
of his evening speech that the alleged
confession of faith Of Colonel Roosevelt
at the Progressive party convention in
Chicago was as preposterous as it was
silly. Il am for progressireness, and
always have BEEN he declared emphati-
cally, "but I am for that kind of prog
ressiveness that comes from law and
that aecomplishes real progressive re-
forms. The Republican party in Yer.
mont has been and is progressive and
no person can stand up and say hon
estly that it has not been or is not
to-day"
He declared that Mr.. Metzger had
made a great political and moral mis-
take by attending the state Republican
convention, where he did not raise a
dissenting voice against the actions of
the convention assembled. and by at
tending the Orange county Republican
convention. making the only amendment
to the conventions platform. and ex-
pressing himself as satisfied with the
conventions proceedings. This action
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mistake, but he did make an error.
and an ethical one, too, by deserting the
party and candidate he had PLEDGED
faithfully to support. Are you 60
ing to trust that man with your hal
LOTT" Mr. Archibald asked. Does that
sort of thing mean progressiveness IN
either home business or political lifeY"
AT this point the speaker was inter-
rupted by cheers.
There was no truth or basis of fact
to the wholesale accusations being made
by the Progressive party in Vermont,
AR Archibald declared further. "Thay
are not substantiaed by one fact he
said. "and you people. if you reason
il out carefully, will think the same as
/, if YOU do not already" The charges
being made by Harland B. Howe, Demo
cratic candidate, the speaker placed in
the same category.
To prove that the Republican party
was the real and only progressive agency
in Vermont, Mr.. Cheney listed the many
progressive measures accomplished ly
Vermont legislatures. Among them
were the public service commission and
the power of action entrusted to it,
the law providing for the adjustment
of grade crossings, the creation of 4
school fund of Sl,0GD000 expert super
vision of schools. and the system of
taxing corporations whereby the sum
from railroad taxes has more than dou-
bled the past few years.
"If the Republican party here in Yer
mont was dominated by bosses as
charged by Harland Howe MIR. Cheney
declared, "this enormous amount of mon-
ey from railroads and other corpora
tious, which pays for the conduct of
our whole state government, would have
never come about. The railroads fought
against it, everybody knows that. but
they did not have their way"
w, II. Sprague deputy clerk of the
court, presided at the rally in Tact
ford center. and William Paul in West
Fairlee.