The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-16
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| The Ludlow band, headed by Gov
ernor Coolidge s father, who bore the
national flag, and by H. o. Coolidge,
| led a parade that included the entire
company of over 5000 guests and we'll
| wishers The picture men got some
great "typcs as this procession
passed the reviewing stand" where
| Governor and Mrs Coolidge, the latter
most gracious and charming woman,
stood under a massive Plymouth elm
| Mrs. J. j. Wilder, so years old, aunt
of the governor, was present. She re-
| fused to be assisted at any time and
| took great pleasure in mingling with
the guests, renewing old acquaintance
and making new ones. She is greatly
admired by the governor who sees in
her, as he says, the kind, motherly
qualities that so well become Vermont
women.
Just before clock, Earle S. Kins-
ley, Republican national committee
man from Vermont, introduced Gov
ernor Coolidge as "Vermont IS most
| distinguished son and the next vice
president of the United States.'
Cheer upon cheer greeted this asser-
| tion and Governor Coolidge stood smil-
ing on the edge of his porch while he
visitors. He said:
Mr.. Chairman and my guests and
fellow Nermonters, | want to thank
you first for the reception you have
Just extended to me and for coming
here in such numbers, and | know at
so much personal inconvenience, to of
fer me your respects and to pay me the
great compliment your visit has given
me.
81 am here, as some one in the audi
ence has suggested. by right of birth
Vermont is my brthright; it is a high
and noble birthright TO have, and the
rising up to it entails a great and high
obligation.
81 Part of that birthright you have
seen as you came here in the noun
tains, in the brooks hurrying down to
the restless sea and in the lakes shin
ing like silver in their green settings
Part of it you see here about you
in the fields, well titled, not by ex-
pensive farm machinery, but by what
is much more skilled and intricate, the
brain and the hands of men.
81 You can see it under the school.
house and the church across the way
which by their size and position tes-
tify to the regard in which are held
by our people things temporal and
those eternal They testify to the
temperaments of those who live here.
alt is great heritage to be born in
Vermont among men given to thrift
and industry and pledged to all things
pious and noble in mankind. And it
seems to me the one important thing
we have to do. to impart to our ma
ton some things of the birthright and
heritage of Nermonters, doing away
with ignorance by popular education.
doing away with the cynicism of the
present day by inspiring men to rever-
ancc through giving them wider and
deeper view of the works of nature
than they see about them.
"These things We must give our fell
low Americans that through them they
may be attached to our institutions,
that they may better approach the
privilege of living under law and order
and the privilege of being Americans.
And so. being faithful to itself Amer
lea may be faithful to all mankind. "
Among the well known Vermonters
present were the following:
Gov. Percival w. Clement; Lieut..
Gov Mason S. Stone: ex-Gov. William
w. Sticknev of Ludlow; Judge Will
lam II. Taylor of the supreme court;
Superior Judge Zed S. Stanton; Con
nrcssman Porter II. Dale; Harry A.
! Black, secretary of state; J. G.. Brown.
! insurance commissioner; Melvin G..
| Morse, tax commissioner; John S. But
ties, commissioner of industry; Her
! bert T. Johnson, adiutant general; w.
! r. Warner and w. A. Dutton, public
| service commissioners; Curtis s. En-
I I, L
an. Fred II. Rabbit, candidates for
| governor; A. w. FoOte of Cornwall,
! candidate for lieutenant governor:
| Hugh J. NJ Jones of Montpelier. fuel
| commissioner; Luther A. Cobb of Island
| Pond. former bank commissioner; Col.
J. +. Paddock of Bellows Falls, chair
| man of the Republican state committee;
Earle S Kinsley of Rutland, Repubi,
can national committeeman; Collins NJ.
Graves Of Bennington, state committee
man: George O. Gridley and Col. John
G. Norton of Windsor w. r. McFeet-
ers of st Adams; Nat L. Divoll of
| Rockingham; Fred G. Davis of Spring
field; Ernest w. Gibson of BrattIeboro
states attorney and candidate for
congress; Attorney Frank Il. Barber
and Senator Sanford A. Daniels of
Brattleboro; Frank Il. Howe of Ben.
nington, former lieutenant governor
Ernest j.. Moore of Ludlow; II. II
Blanchard of Springfield, municipal
Judge: Henry T. Brown of Ludlow
former senator; Representative George
j.. Durham of BrattlebOro; Col Frank
lin s. Billings of Woodstock; Homer
L. Skeels of Ludlow, former judge %
probate; DR. F. l.. Osgood of Below
Falls, candidate for senator; Senate
Henry L. Ballou of Chester; DIR. F.
Z Kidder Of Woodstock, state board o
health Lester II. Greene of Montpelier
4 president Vermont Automobile club
Charles A. Plumley of Mortified, for
MGR tax commissioner and president o
! Norwich university; Judge and Mrs
r Fred NJ. Butler; Judge and Mrs. A. G
Coolidge; Judge and Mrs. George N
! Goddard. DR. j. f. Thomson and How
, ard l.. Hindley of Rutland.
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