The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-07

PLANS MADE
Business Gathering Held in
Brooks House, Followed
by Addresses
INFORMAL MEETING
IN FESTIVAL HALL
Senator Dillingham;, Mr.. Gates, Mr..
Darling and Others Present-Story
fected by Democratic Tariff Bill.

Members of the Republican town com
mittees in several towns in the southern
part of the county and about $50 Brattle-
boro voters had an opportunity yesterday
to personally meet Senator William F.
Dillingham;, Charles w Gates and Hale
Is. Darling, and some of the county nomi-
nees. A meeting was held in the after
| noon in the Brooks House, when plans
Were discussed for financing the state cam
paign and for organizing clubs In the
evening i'll Festival hall the public was in
| vited and after an informal reception
there was speaking by the candidates and
several others, but without touching upon
political subjects T. J. Waterman of the
| town committee introduced the speakers
in the evening
Col. l.. ID. Taylor Of this town, chairman
of the county committee, called the after
noon meeting to order and Col j. 4. Pid
dock OF SaXtons River, the county mem
Der of the state committee outlined the
object of the gathering. Stanley Wilson
OF Chelsea; chairman of the state commit
tee, spoke briefly and then Senator Dill
lngham was called on for remarks.
Senator Dillingham; spoke of the changed
conditions since two years ago. Of how the
Progressives prior to the Chicago conven-
tion raised 100000, largely by eight
men, for campaign purposes, of how the
Republicans laid down. and OF how the
Democratic administration was far enough
advanced To show what its policy was to
he. He spoke OF the Importance to New
| England of its manufacturing industries
and said that without them the Vermont
farms would not be worth their taxes, as
they furnish the market for farm prod
uets. \ tariff that will protect those in
dustries is essential. The Paine tariff bill
was scientifically drawn and offered pro
| lection, but for the first nine months un-
der the Underwood bin the country trade
with Europe ran behind $3.50 O0O,00
q Senator Dillingham; made no apology for
his course in the Senate saying he would
rather be turned down than to turn his
face on anything he had done
Judge J. NJ. Tyler spoke briefly, pledg
L ing allegiance to the Republican party anC
/ saying that it would Ire a great mistake
: to trade off Senator Dillingham;. Earle :
: kinsley OF Rutland, national committee
{ man for Vermont urged that the full Re
: publican vote be gotten out for Porter H
o Dale, the nominee for Congress
:. Clarke {. Fits Of BrattIeboro made
II particularly forceful speech in which III
u said an effort was being made to turn TIA,
i tide Of industrial affairs in Windhan
II county. where all but two of the town
II were declining in population and wealth
and he referred TO the improved train ser
y vice and to the fact that the industria
"a development in the past few years ha,
n been many times as rapid as before
IL just as Blattleboro was getting a goo,
St tbero u fhlnuo m, no afif, y
tration and a new tariff law. The For
Dummer Mills began to be affected, bu
the European war came to its relief. wv
want a governmental policy that will sur
Y port our industries when tue
over, he asserted <sand that will no
turn IA cold shoulder to the prosperity
industrial prosperity of the country"
y Mr.. Fits said that two years ago a cal
borundum factory was ready to locate i
Vernon, where it could get cheap power
and would have employed from 10 to 10
# hands. Because of the change in the tarI
the concern located across the Canada
= border near the Niagara falls where
he could still get cheap power There wa
S one instance where the Democratic tart
20 had hurt Windham county's prospects
the majority had voted with Senator Dill
= ingham that industry would have bee
ld located in Vernon now. lie spoke
n Charles \. Prouty's scheme of a zone sy
x tenn in fixing freight rates, whereby I'll
IN rates would be largely increased north
n Brattleboro This he said would be d
ut structive to industrial development
The last speaker was Hale X. Darlin
IN nominee for lieutenant governor. He sal
e, the men who left the Republican part
rs, two years ago belong to US. and he urge
k the avoidance of "A campaign Of personal
n. ties For those men to return to the Il
n publican party would not involve sci
stultihcation or the Abandonment Of pr
ciples Reforms can come better fro
within the party than from without. NJ
Darling thought the Democratic endors
ment Of Mr. Prouty ought not to cau
alarm, because a great number Of Dem
Gratis would not vote for him