The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-15


crs and tllcn Of how She went to Chi
cagu as the only woman member Of the
committee on resolutions.
She gave a very attractive narrative
Of the considerations of the resolutions
committee. 1t was made plain there.
she said. that it was not one man
party. There were two dominant
notes: no bid for votes, and what is
/ best for the party. No more disinter
eeted convention, she declared, was
/ ever held; none such could ever be
/ held again.
One instance was cited of the delib-
erations; of the committee Of which she
was member One of the members
declared that if a certain plank was
adopted 100000 votes would be lost. /
He was squelched by the comment of
another member that it was not votes
they were seeking first, but the prin-
i ciples of the party. She spoke at |
length on thesfour planks that We're in |
q troduced in whole or IN part by WON |
4 en-health, immigration, social indus |
try and votes for women. She spoke Of |
Miss Jane Adams S advent into the |
party as the result of the party adopt |
ing the social industrial plank and |
made comparisons under the working |
men S compensation act between t1ls
country aud Germany. AH to the votes
for-women plank she said that women
had no desire to usurp the high financ-
, ing, but they proposed TO tackle the
= home management.
r Governor Stubs was the last speak
err He lost no time in raising audi
BILE smiles by speaking of his views
during the afternoon of wheat and corn
: fields and then admitted that he would
c like real vacation among the noun
@ tains. If all knew the principles OF
: the Progressive party, he said, there
would not be any of the common peo-
pie outside Of the ranks, but there
/ might be few railroads, banks and
f other corporations. He showed that
= progression is affecting other countries
and cited the instance of Japan firing
- recently a standpat prime minister and
L installing a Progressive, declaring that
# the United States had got to step
n lively or get behing in the race for
IS progress.
+ He told his life story by saying that
If he had worked on a farm to help sup
t. port his father and mother and then
es lived in railroad camps % years until
lie he had as many as 5000 men working
n, for him and offices in the principal
n cities of the far West. He blew into
n the legislature without ever having
40 had a light Of the inside until he land
re ed there as a member. He had never
n, attended a county convention. He had
vs. spent the greater part of his life in
s. the railroad business, but until he got
a TO the legislature he did not realize
n that the railroads controlled legislation
He had been raised in Quaker home
81 and there it was believed that the Re
IS publican party was all there was. He
70 ,l,,4i+ fh1 no Ha.
of publican party had done about all the
,ir good that had been done in politics
he but he considered that it had shot its
id last bolt
He told of his troubles TO discover
use how there were 432 men on the payroll
en- at So Il day when he could not see ,;
Sc with the naked eye and of his dis
wn covery that there were 100 assistan
ak superintendent Of ventilation in Jan
up uary. He told of how he refused $4,000
At as chairman of the state central COM
en- mittee for political fund because
rse came from a corporation and of hoy
or from that time to this he had receive
the no more railroad contracts. -
vas He told of much of the improvement
Red that had taken place in Kansas dnrin
the his four years ineumbencv of the GOV
hat ernor 5 job, declaring that @ Pure pol
ties pays as business proposition.
up, " We want to elect President an
am, Congress that will carry out our pla
ked- form, he declared. He paid his r
speets to President Wilson by sayn
ing that he believed him to be sincere, bl
pom absolutely wrong Tariff for reyenJ
, in only is a crime against women al
sive children, - he said. The Republican
| a want a tariff wall so high that it
epa damaging and the Democrats are hea
that ed peil nell for free trade. The Pr
ned gressives are the only party that pU
end pose to handle this problem in t
was right way by the appointment OF
sa commission of experts with authori
sses. to compel living up to the commission
Pro verdict.
Re- He advised all to go into clean p
can itics, saying that in the 10 years
cone had had his grip packed ON that j
nder he had been better man each ]
the cember than he had been in Janua