Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1920-10-22
THREE NOMINEES
ADDRESS RALLY
Democrats Fire Broadside ir
State Campaign Here
Praise Cox and Decry Harding-Candi.
dates for Governor, Congressman and
Attorney General Speak, Is -.

Pra1Se COx ana DeCry Haruins-Nnnui'
dates for Governor, Congressman and
Attorney General Speak. ~ 100
Three nominees on the Democratic
state ticket were the speakers in the
Auditorium Wednesday night at a rally
which started here the active campaign
which will be waged from now until cleo
ton day, Nov. 2. They were Fred G..
Martin of Bennington, nominee for gov
ernor, James +. Leamy of West Rutland,
nominee for attorney general, and Harry
w. Writer'S of st. Johnsbury, nominee for
congressman. The rally was not largely
attended.
The rally was opened at $50 by Rollin
s. Chlds, who stated that the principal
issues were the State issues, which Mr..
Martin would discuss, and that the great
national. issue ALTO would be presented.
He upkeldsthe attitude of Gov: James NJ:
Cox on the peace treaty and criticized
strongly Senator Warren G. Harding
stand He then introduced Mr.. Martin,
whom he said he had known since he was
child.
Mr.. Martin said he had no personal
ambitions and that he was not asking for
SUPPORT, but that he had come to discuss
conditions "as we find them in our own
Green Mountain state" He remarked
that we are neighbors and should discuss
and talk over the matters among ourselves
without party prejudice.
An endeavor should be made to bring
the tourists into Vermont and encourage
them to buy homes here and build up es-
tates which will employ more men than
some of the industries do, and thus bring
a great amount of new taxable property
into Vermont. As an illustration he told
OF an estate in Bennington on which
100000 apple trees have been set out and
where 100 men now are employed.
That the state should arrange imme-
\ diately to develop the water power for the
\beneft of the state and its people was
the belief of Mr.. Martin, who declared
that with the coal situation as it is cleo
trio power was needed to heat the homes.
I This, too, should be under state control.
1t was a mistake to move the schools
{ out of the small towns and go into the
larger towns, he said, and he declared that
his plan would be to take the schools to
the children. He said he would restore the
school house at the cross roads.
The present system of taxation, said
the speaker, is burden to the small
towns. He ftlt that we should take no.
tice of the system of the progressive states
of the West, where they have a stumpage
tax, as compared with the laws here,
where big timber company can go on to
l. lot and cut it off and leave land worth
practically nothing as taxable property.
II. B. Haus introduced the next speaker,
Nr LedIny, VINO confessed tnat the DEM
ocratS were Outnumbered at the begin
ming, but that as the World war had
brought about many changes he felt that
the people of America were so vitality in
terested in the welfare of their country
that they would be willing to sacrifice in
order to further American welfare.
Mr.. tLeamys address was a fine piece
of oratory, dealing almost wholly with
the history of the cause of the war, the
war itself and Americas part in it. He
declared that America now is at war; that
the burden of carrying on the war fell
upon Democratic president and Dem
9eratic congress, and with what result
-Hes,speke. Of the work Of raising and
training the army and declared that the
measures passed were Democratic meas
dres. r,
After he had gone into the horrors
OF the peace treaty, declaring that the
candidate for president on the Republi-
can ticket would reject the league of
nations. What the Monroe doctrine had
done for us here, he said, the league of
nations would do for the entire world -
it is the Monroe doctrine of the entire
world. He made the statement that
those papers which were upholding Sem
ator Harding's candidacy were those
which had shreked with joy when the
German air raids were made, when the
Lusitania was sunk, etc.
III ClOSlHB, IhT. lltdIIlN ueCldTeu t0dI
if he was elected attorney general of the
state he would do all in his power to
have any officer of the state, who EN-
bezzled $4,000, brought to trial and
sentenced promptly.
As member Of the Democratic state
f. Gale introduce Ntr., Writers, who
spoke of the plat. IN which he had
adopted. He said we have come to q
point where we are It decide whether
the majority of the peoi ~ of the Seoun
try are to rule it or Whether it is to be
that he would advocate the submission
Of all amendments of the constitution .tC
the direct vote of the people. He spoke
of the prohibition amendment land the
Volstead act, the last of which he sale
waH unreasonable and unjust land thai
bectuse Of these facts and because thu
notlbe enforced he declared that it
should be modified to entitles it to thu
RESPECT of the people. 6 'sf
The speaker, said that he asked sup
port on the gronnd that the people o
The county, srczs sne it, est hs b BS
for. having voted for prohibition and thu
Volstead act when the people of Yer
mont had voted against prohibition ant
for the local option law. At the SAM
time he commended Congressman Green
Tor voting against! Ihese measures.
He declared the coming election to b.
the most momentous in the history of tn
country and said, (Which shall it be
forward with Cox or backward wit
HardingT He then drew comparison
b}tween the two candidates. stating tina
Harding had been a blunderer anon
btundcrers and a reactionary among re
dictionaries. Cox, he said, is a man VIII
looks forward, a man who does things
while Harding ista man who looks back
ward and does nothing He then declare
that the Republicans had striven for tw
accomplishments in the past two year
to kill the peace treaty and to kill til
President.