Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-10-21
PROGRESSIVE RALLY AT BARTON.

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RALLY AT BARTON.
Fully 300 people attended the Pro-
gressive rally held at Sewers hall, !
last Wednesday night the Barton band |
was in attendance and the balcony was
we'll filled with ladies, who were invit-
ed to attend. The first speaker of the
evening, 0. w. Locke of Orleans. who
was Barton's representative to the state |
legislature of 1912, gave most inter- |
esting talk on Progressive legislation |
in the last legislative session and the |
attempts by the Republican members !
to avoid the direct primary, land equal
suffrage issues.
F. w. Cutting. the Progressive
nominee for representative this year,
introduced the speakers and the argu-
ment that Mr.. Cutting would be
unable to speak on the floor of the
house, should he be elected as our
representative, was certainly refuted.
Mr.. Cuttings introductions of all the
speakers of the evening, while brief.
showed him to be man we'll able to
speak in any gathering and a man who
will make good appearance.
We understand that DR.. Aldrich's
speech here was his maiden effort and
we owe him an apology in saying he
was no orator. DR.. Aldrich made one
of the best arguments for the Progress
sive cause that we have heard. and it
was delivered in forceful manner and
exceptionally we'll received by the
| large and enthusiastic audience. The
doctor stated the principles of the
Progressive party briefly and conciSely.
IA direct primary, equal suffrage,
National prohibition and justice with
out technical rules and procedure. -
His arguments were we'll founded and
brought in each instance to logical
conclusion.
He touched briefly on the state
expenses and the additional state
taxes, as we'll as upon the many un.
necessary Offices created from almost
purely political reasons.
The real address Of the evening,
however. was by Fraser Metzger anc
in line with his speech at the Progress
sive county convention at Orleans anc
which appeared in these columns in 6
tor, but beside that he is man work
ing not for personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
but for principle. A principle il
which he and the Progressive party
thoroughly believe. Sixty-one year:
of the rule by one party, no matter
how sincere and great that party may
be. is altogether too long a time, ant
we have had sixty-one years of tn,
!, Republican party rule, it matters no
whether the party be Republican
!. Democratic or Progressive, no part,
will rule for such long time, withou
it's bosses and it's political machine.
We fail as yet to see just how
great number of Progressive Republi
cans who are determinedly fghtin,
for the election of Chas. A. Prouty TO-
senator. can on the other hand turf
down Mr.. Metzger. Certainly Erase
Metzger stands for exactly those prin
! ciples that Chas. A. Prouty stands for
} and he should be elected as representa-
! tive from our second district to tn
) Legislature. We believe that he will
be elected because we can see abso
, utely no reason for the Progressive
: Republicans voting Prouty and the
= turning down man who is certainl
2 his exact prototype.
Soft Soap and Gunpowder.
Awake to the fact that the Progress
, sive party is about to win victory i
: Orleans county, with their very desery
ing county ticket, the press of tn
: county have come forward with thei
I heaviest artillery and commenced
: : terrific bombardment with thei
ideals" machine" and ''lily white
! bombs. The Progressives held cor
vention, rather an enthusiastic one
!, by the way. in which they named
: county ticket. made up of good, capabl
Z men in the county. names which 20
! may throw considerable mud at, if 70
choose. and still not be able to smircl
f Two OF the men named on that ticke
0 are Democrats. Four of them ar
b Progressives and one of them is
q Republican. There has not as We
n seemed to be any great boiler on tn
t Republican named, but on the Demo
Gratis, two as we'll known and capabl
t men as can be found in the county. tn
i press sees grand political coup. "A
a right. call it so if you will. they ar
3, certainly men whom no Republica
b need feel ashamed to vote for and fc
e whom both the Porgressives and Demo
i Gratis OF the county will vote, not with
o standing the soft soapy appeal to tn
good Progressives and Democrats whol
9 1T is expected are going to vote for tn
. other ticket. The only trouble wit
q the soft soap, is that the thing ha
t been tried too often in the old party an
h most men of progressive ideas hav
f learned to recognize it by its RICH
o name. The cry of the right men fo
e the Offices, an old Republican slogan
e is now discontinued even in count
politics and an appeal is made that,
n newly formed machine in the so-calle
t Progressive party has fixed things an
i all Republicans should be on hand O
8 Nov. 8 and stand by their party
: That is exactly true. and all we expee
4 on the other, hand. is that all the PR
t gressives in the county do just tn
same thing. and to use the slang e1
4 preston. we will make them sit u
r and take notice. more notice in fac
s than the Republican party in thi
t state has ever has to take in an
Y previous election.
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