Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-05-25


lican convention will be chosen
One of these possibilities will be the taking of color,
less position to candidates that the Vermont deega
ton will go to Chicago with nobody knowing whether they
are to carry out the popular mandate not or where they
The other possibility will be the sending to Chicago of
delegation not bound by any ironclad vote of instruction
State convention in favor Of Hughes that suppemenng the
popular mandate in the primary for the Justice it will pro-
the column of States for Hughes.
is Wheh of these With the most od 3h Wn
the prestige and influence of our little commonwealth?
larger States and thus to wholly to view On the
contrary Vermont started the movement for Harrison and it
did not frer its influence by voting for him simply the
sibity.
The sight of the late United States Senator Redeld Proc
tor rising in his place through ballot after another and
saying Vermont casts her eight for Benjamin Iarr
SON helped capture the conventions and, as the result
showed to make Harrison not only the republican nominee
but also president of the United States.
Again in 1896 Vermont broke away from the idea of
Speaker Thomas Reed of Maine. When the conven-
ton at Montpelier adopted strong Mckinley resolution Yer
mont helped set the tide strongly toward Mckinley and
away from Reed that there was longer the slightest
ton that Mckinley to be the parts candidate for the
presidency.
resolution in their State convention vocng the uuestioned
sentiment of majority of the republicans and not few pro-
gressves for Hughes the upon whom the party
unite and win grand victory for truly republican principles
and for vigorous unduted unhyphenated selfrespectng
our undaunted little commonwealth will index of
the national trend pointing the to the nomination of
for the highest possible political principles Our delegation
VIII thus go into the national convention prepared to win new
grand traditions splendid past as as prophetic of
still more glorious future.
mont should adopt vigorous resolution for Hughes 1t is
being charged that the avorie sons have been trying
make "combne' block the Hughes movement that
the Vermont delegation will eventually for Weeks The
sentiment for Hughes in Vermont genuine and persist
ent that delegation of true Veoners would dare to
to Chicago and betray the trust resposed in them especially
in view Of the popular mandate for Hughes in the primary
of popular sentiment
If the State convention adopts Hughes resolution no
matter whether the delegation actually instructed not
other States will know that still keeping the faith
adopt Hug uqhes resolution Would
5 na STAND AMID b en
If any resident of Vermont is inclined question the
pionshp of Hughes in State convention, is necessary
only F to note some of the prestige already gained
the whole situation in nutshell from national point of view
straw"
Newspapers all the country are continuously sound
ing the praises Of Vermont in connection with the Hughes
movement If our State convention to fail to sound
clear clarion note for Hughes they would have right to
we had been s to the high stand started out TO take
in this presidential contest.
The Boston Transcript makes this striking remark Gore
gon follows the example Of Vermont proving the sound
of the conclusion Of Colonel George Harvey that nobody
is for Hughes-nobody but the people,"
The Transcript well describes the conditions under which
Oregon endorsed Hughes Handsomely "No only did Mr..
lot but he had organization working for him. His vic
tory may well provoke to despair the professional politicians
whose aim it is to be the mddemen between the public
wants of the nation and the people who constitute the nations
only sovereign.
eve must go back to the days of George Washington to
parallel the proud achievement of Mr. Hughes whose refusal
sanction the Of his has only to stimulate
the popular demand for his CONSUMPTION standard
bearer of the opposition to President Wilson in the coming
contest for the presidency His belief that the presidency
is Office which should not be sought and must be de-
cned the belief of the first president 1t is believe,
the sentiment Of many millions of Americans to-day"
blicon
State convention thus clearly set forth by the Transcript
"The primaries in Oregon and Vermont where the victory
for Hughes decisive insure eighteen delegates the
convention instructed to vote for his nomination
first ballot the VermOners having written his name on the
ballot.
ut will be the distinction of these delegates to form the
nucleus of the Hughes strength Chicago for they
bring to the convention mandate the people which
neither Mr. Hughes himself the politicians opposed to
him have been able to head off.
1.-The genuineness of this popular demand manifested
weeks when the Massachusetts Legislature demonstrated
to the country by the poll of its members that Hughes was
the first choice Of overwhelming orty of the repub
members The poll by the Literary Digest the egis-
atures of the country showed the preference
Hughes. These much directly in touch with