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party organization to assist me and no
money with which to create an organ
ization had that been desirable Per-
eonally I was without political skill and
IN great measure without political
acquaintance. There was nothing upon
my side but the justice and reason OF
my cause.
The first announcement which | re-
ceived came from the Prohibition party
when that party nominated me as its
candidate for the Senate; and whatever
the result Of this contest may be I shall
always feel toward the men of that
party deep sense of gratitude. I not
only appreciate the support but I APP
preciate the quality of that support. No
man belongs to the Prohibition party Of
Vermont except as a matter Of principle
The righteousness Of the cause which
gives that party its name cannot be
doubted or bellttled and If the platform
/ OF that party he examined Il will be
found that Its other purposes. aside from
| tho promotion of temperance. are Of the
! most advanced character I heartily ap-
/ prociato the Endorsement Of such men
and I trust that the members of that
party will not stop with mere indorse-
! ment but will sec TO It that their full
| party strength finds expression at the
! polls
| MY next word Of encoura cement came
when the Progressive party also nom
mated me as its candidate for senator
| I believe profoundly in the principles Of
! that party. Many of the things for which
! Il stands I had advocated long before
there was n Progressive party | would
accept no nomination to the Senate from
any party which did not leave me free
to work for the accomplishment of those
principles. In my own section of the
state, the men who went over to that
party two years ago did so az matter
of principle and not from idle fancy, and
they are among our best and most sub
stontia citizens If elected, I shall owe
that election mainly to the progressive
voter. and I feel under the deepest
obligation to that party which has been
willing to overlook mere party names
and to cast its influence in favor of the
principles for which it stands
In the election Of 1912 the Progress
sivc party cast $4,000 votes. Had the
vote Of the other parties remained
the same. the progressive vote and the
prohibition vote would nearly havo
elected senator 1t is said that this
is not a progressive year and that tho
progressive vote will fall of That
remains to he seen, but am certainly
curious to know why any man who
voted in 1912 for Theodore Roosevelt
should vote in 1914 for William p
Dillingham;. The only thing about
which | have ever known Senator Dill !
bingham to be even passably vigorous
was in his denunCiations of Roosevelt
during the administration of Taft
In this contest l am looking not
only to the Prohibition party and tho
Progressive party, but to the liberal
element in all parties, and expect
strong support from the Democratic /
party There is every reason why a
progressive democrat. and most Yer /
mont democrats are progressive, /.
should support me at this time. and
confidently appeal to that party
Ordinarily. the democrats of Yer !
mont would and should nominate
and vote for democratic can
ddate for the Senate. although ,
there were not the slightest expecta-
tion that such a candidate would be /
elected. Conditions to-day are not the
ordinary. Two candidates are in the
field. Mr. Dillingham; has been nom
mated by the republican machine,
which in Vermont is controlled by the
reactionary element lie is an ac-
hho"leoged standpatter of the deep
est dye, He has during his whole p
career in the Senate been against ev-
cry progressive measure because II
was progressive and against every
democratic measure because it was
democratic. / stand upon a non-par-
tisan platform. l have been life
long progressive. | have been in SYM
pathy with most of the measures for
which the Democratic party has stood.
| hrst suggested measures which the
Democratic party Is to-day enacting
into law
II the democrats vote the democratic
ticket Mr.. Dillingham; Will perhaps be
elected; II any considerable number of
democrats vote for me, ] shall be elected.
Should not the members OF that party
stand with the progressive element Of
Vermont at this juncture?
Finally, l appeal to the progressive ele-
ment In the Republican party The
friends Of Mr.. Dillingham; have per-
sistently asserted that | did not want
and would not accept republican sup
port. | have In this campaign no Ananias
cub had |, that statement should be
assigned to the first place upon the roll
OF menddclty. 1t has been denied so often
ana so explicitly that he who makes II
to-day must do so knowing its falsity
why should | not ask and receive aid
from republicans? ! have chung to that
party Tor forty years, ever since ! cast
my first vote, and some times under
rather discouraging circumstances In
TINS contest am soliciting aid from all
parties | ID il from the Prohibition
party, and that party has made mo its
candidate, | asked II of the Progressive
party, and that party has done me the
honor of nomination. | asked 1t of the
Democratic party, and while have not
been nominated by that party, shall
receive substantial vote from It's mom-
bers. | asked 1t Of the Republican party.
ana there is no reason why the republic
cans should not be equally generous
speak only to the progressive republic
can Addressing him, let me ask, Why
should you support Mr.. Dillingham; rather
than me In this contest? Has he in the
past acted In accordance with your de-
siros? You reply, mo. he has in almost
every case been opposed to the thing for
which | have stood" Will you, then, {
elect him because he has heen sys-
tematically for the thing in which you
did not believe and refuse me your sup
port because I have been with equal
pertenacity for those things? That GER $
tainly Is a curious reward to mete out
IN a vttt, Ito .