Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-06-02
FIGHT OVER ONE DELEGATE.
G. E. Moody of Waterbury Elected
Over H. ]. M. Jones Of Montpelier
Theodore N. Vail Heads Delegation.

OVeT IL. D. M. JOu6S VI NOlIpouSl-
Theodore N. Vail Heads Delegation
The Republican state convention in
Montpelier Friday, which elected eight
delegates and eight alternates who were
told to vote for Hughes for president
in the Chicago convention, reminded
old timers of conventions that bloomed
when knighted harmony was in flower.
So well was the slate arranged that
when the convention met the 51S dele
gates present discovered they had been
called together to decide whether
Gene Moody of Waterbury or
Hugh j. M. Jones of Montpelier should
go to Chicago, listen to the speeches
of Chairman Frank Il. Howe and Sen
ator Sherman of Illinois and the ora
tory of budding politicians making
the nomination and seconding speech
es, endorse Charles +. Hughes, adopt
a platform that "viewed with alarm -
sufficiently to satisfy the most exact
ing, and pass few resolutions of
thanks
The business of the convention
could easily have been transacted in
an hour and lalf but courtesy re-
quired that they should remain and
hear Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman of
Illinois, who was whisked by automo-
bile across the state from Rutland to
Montpelier, reaching the convention
hall at 3 Clock.
Senator Carroll S. Page was on the
stage to greet his colleague when he
stepped across the footlights and the
opening econiums which the senator
from Illinois showered upon Senator
Page and other members of the Yer
mont congressional delegation indicat-
ed that the confidence of the citizen
from Hyde Park had not been mis-
placed.
Perhaps the most stirring event of
the entire convention was the reception
given the Hughes resolution introduced
by Clarke c. Fits Of Brattleboro. Mr..
Fits was forced to stop in the middle
of the resolution while the din of
cheers, hand clapping and mechanical
rattles filed the hall for over min
ute. The resolution was adopted with
a whoop that gave not shadow OF
doubt as to how the convention stood
on the question. This resolution fol-
lows:
"The Republican state convention OF
Vermont endorses and affirms the spok-
en- word of the Republican voters of the
state in favor of Charles E. Hughes for
the presidential nomination.
owe believe that his unblemished rec
ord his wide experience, his forceful
character and his great intellect com.
bine to make him the master hand to
navigate the ship of state across the
unchartered shoals which are ahead.
"We urge that the delegates elected
by this convention, by their personal
efforts and by their votes, support him
with the full strength of the state"
The seven uncontcsted delegates
elected were Theodore N. Vail of Lyn-
don, Edmund R. Morse of Proctor.
George Herbert Prouty of Newport,
Fred H. Babbitt of Bellows Falls, Col
Inns M. Graves of Bennington, Guy W.
Bailey of Essex and John II. Cushing
of st. Adams. For eighth delegate
there were three candidates, George Eu
gene Moody of Waterbury,, Hugh j. NJ.
Jones of Montpelier and George G. Grid
ley of Windsor. Although Jones had
something like "a of the delegates from
Washington county and Moody II,
Moody through the aid of his political
manager Editor Whitehill went on to
the floor of the convention and won
out.
The alternates elected were Alex
Dunnett of st. Johnsbury, Willard F,
Barnes of Chimney Point, Henry T.
Brown of Ludlow, Miles S. Sawyer of
Rutland, f. A. Davis of Bethel Henry
B. Shaw of Burlington, F. C. Archibald
of Manchester and Smith B. Waite of
Hyde park.
Chairman Frank f. Howe met with a
hearty reception at the hands of the
convention and put the business
through expeditiously.
Warner r. Graham of Bellows Falls
graced the chair of secretary and had
for his assistant Benjamin Williams of
Proctor, who was secretary of civil
and military affairs to Gov. Proctor
Charles H. Darling was chairman of
the committee on resolutions. Robert
G. Bacon was the member from Wind
ham county and Frederick w. Wilder
from Windsor county.
While the cold guard were much in
evidence as well as all the candidates
for state office in addition to Ex-Gov,
ernors Fletcher and Mead and Governor
Gates, sprinkled here and there in the
convention were men who had been
identified with the Progressive cause in
dicating their willingness to once more
be considered within the fold.