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

EX-GOV. STUBBS OF
KANSAS A SPEAKER
Miss Alice Carpenter, E. w. Gibson, G.
H. Thompson and DR.. H. Blodgett
Also Created Enthusiasm-E. G.
Crosby Presided as Chairman.


Crosby Presided as Chairman.
Progression in politics., social life, /
moral and spiritual welfare as exempli-
fed by the principles and practices of
the Progressive party, was expounded
in serious and semi humorous vein, in /
cold argument and in epigrammatic ut /
terances at a ehicken-pie supper at the
Brooks House last evening under the
auspices of the Progressive party of
Windham county.
This was the first local public gath
ering Of the party since the close OF
| the national campaign and was the oc-
casion for the presences here of Miss
Alice Carpenter of New York, a mem
/ Der of the committee on resolutions of
the new party at the national convent
ton, and of Ex-Governor Walter Stubs
/ of Kansas, who came East for the pur-
pose of making three speeches, OF
which his effort last night was his last.
OF the local and heartbeat lumlnarles
of the party who were heard at the
banquet board were Ernest w Gibson,
whose management of the local cam
pdI2u last IAN Hdtl iiluCt1 W ttO Win
its success; Charles H. Thompson, who
has Just returned from Michigan, where
he had charge of the state campaign,
and Dr. John II. Blodgett of Bellows
Falls, who feels the need of q Progress
tsive newspaper and is looking for 9 a
real newspaper man with $1,000 to in
vest.
Representative E. c. Crosby, presi-
dent of the Windham County Progress
sive club, was the chairman of the
meeting and a very large proportion OF
those present were members of the fair
sex, who evidently enjoyed not only the
repast but the speaking as much as did
their escorts. =s
There was no question but that those
present were Progressives. Every men
ton of the name of Theodore RoOse
welt, each pointed plea for well-knowl
principles of the party which the speak
ers espoused, was greeted with ap
plause, spontaneous and vigorous. \
the conclusion Of the Speaking the en-
time company arose and sang one vers
- of America, led by Leitsinger S o.
chestra, which had played during tn
| banquet when one of the speakers wa
not in command of the situation. Re
| bandannas served as napkins and tn
they were intended as souvenirs.
The menu consisted of tomato SOU
chicken-pie, mashed potato, ice cream
cake and coffee and was well cooke
and we'll served.
) While the first course was bein
Il cleared away the chairman called upe
L Judge Gibson, who said that while
Michigan he heard that the Progressi'
1 party was like an automobile in
crowded city street, because it sep
f I rates the quick from the dead. In tn
| state from which he had Just return,
| three of the four constitutional amen
ments were carried and the fourth w
lost because of the efforts of the S
loon keepers and the political BOSE
He said there is no danger of the Pr
/ gressives amalgamating with the /
- publicans because the Bull Moose ca
- not be caught and battered by someo
- shaking a peek measure Of oats und
= his nose while haltering him with
h other hand. Everyone realizes that
- people of the county and. the state {
~ doing their own thinking. The p
oE gressive party stands for the elmn
ton of the political boss from the e.
p uuA troll of the affairs of government.
ANh- . Dr. Blodgett said that the party Fl
Pu TO carry the Stdbe #dba tile last Il
ton because the towns were not
anized, owing to lack of time, and
nag cause the press was against the par
~ There are five newspapers in the coul
and two of them have Progressive
denotes. but all treated the party
- fairly he said. The party must h;
the organization it now has and
N riodical, and with cooperation a pa
organ could be established. He |
tested that he was not speaking
sES Bellows Falls especially, "Sbut we
have one there. All we need is a
!. S. newspaperman with $1,000 to in1
and get in touch with me and w
We 90 int our pockets and do the res
uart Charles I'll. Thompson, who mana
the Vermont campaign and who in
weeks and half organized the ret
state campaign in Michigan, was III
duced as the third speaker. He
that with no campaign fund and Y
the state Roosevelt from top to
- tom, but with no knowledge that t
was Progressive party, the Prog
siyes polled little less than 5000
F0 the state IN the campaign just eli
= The opposition press of the state
mits now editorially that hereafter
state must be counted in the doul
column He declared that the gal
,;a,a1 LAY between the Progressive party
de Up the Republican party is wider thu
EST las ever been between the Repub
~ nsa and Democratic parties The =
cratic party is marking time to see
the Wilson policies work out an
they fail, as the speaker believes
Street will thousands will flock to the
dard of the Progressives.
Miss Alice Carpenter, that defig
d suffragist who has helped fight the
paigns of her sex throughout the
VIC and since the organization of the
NS gressiye party, has enlisted in
cause, was the first of the two
cipal speakers to hold the undi
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