Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-09-06
CLOSING REPUBLICAN RALLY.
Stirring Addresses by x-Congressman
Cole of ohio and Clarke c.. Fits at
Island Park Friday Night

Chilly weather, the kind that made
people wear overcoats and winter jack
cts, cut down the attendance at the Re-
publican rally at Island park Friday
night, but several hundred were pres
ent and the applause was the most en-
thuslastc and the speaking by Clarke
c. Fits and Ralph b. Cole was the best
of any Republican rally of the campaign.
The First Regiment band gave a con-
cert before the speakers appeared.
DR.. Henry d. Holton presided and in
troduced Mr. Fits first. The Progress
ives had failed to meet Mr.. Fits
in public debate, even the petition
signed by Gov. John A. Mead and others
in Rutland last Thursday challenging Col.
Roosevelt to discuss the issues with Mr..
Fits being turned aside. Mr.. Fits re-
ferred to these things in his opening
remarks and said the ex-president did
not dare meet a Vermonter because he
knew he couldn't meet the test of a
joint debate. He showed that the per
capita cost of running the government
of Vermont, under continued Republican
administrati ton, was less than in any
other state in this whole land. Then he
took up some of the things advocated by
Col. Roosevelt. In regard to child labor
restrictions he said Mr.. Roosevelt never
suggested anything anywhere near as
good as the law already in force in this
, far in the control of corporations Mr..
Roosevelt is behind the times to come
into Vermont and advocate a workmen's
compensation law. Such a proposed
amendment to the constitution was
adopted two years ago and it will be
approved by the coming Legislature and
then will be submitted to the people.
During Roosevelt's two terms not one
cent was appropriated by the govern
ment for the conservation of New Eng
lands resources. In the first year of
Tafts administration $4,000 900 was APP
proprated for that purpose. Roosevelt
is preaching an eight-hour day, but the
| trusts headed by Medil Mccormick and
| George w. Perkins, which employ 1000
women in their Irvine mills, require
| those women to work IL hours a day,
| and some of the profits of their labor Is
running the Roosevelt campaign. The
head of the Roosevelt electoral ticket in
this state" he asserted, 'is a Benning-
ton man who employs 500 women work
ing 10 hours a day while he is running
| on an eight-hour platform"
Mr.. Fits referred to the animus oil
| the Boston Journals attacks upor
President Taft. The Journal is own
| ed by Frank A. Munsey, owner of Mum
| sey's ma gazine and various other publ
cations. At the close of Roosevelt's ad-
ministration the post office department
| was running behind about $lIOOO,OO
year. In the interest of the common
people Mr.. Taft thought it would bt
fair to make the magazines pay the cos
of the transportation of their advertis
ing sections through the mails, which
would give the public one-cent postage
on letter mail. This, Mr.. Fits said
would cost Mr.. Munsey something lik'
5000 900 a year, hence his opposition t
Mr. Taft.
Mr.. Cole, former congressman from
Ohio, spoke but a few minutes, as a fir,
alarm rang soon after he had begun
He took up the alleged theft of the Cal
ifornia delegates at the Chicago conven
ton and explained the fundamental rea
sons for the high cost of living, show
ing that 1t was not In any sense related
to politics. Mr.. Cole possesses a full
resonant voice and has fine presence
and his remarks made a decidedly ia
vorable impression.