The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-28

added: ''But he is with us in sym
pathy and spirit, if not in spirits.
After telling something Of the activ-
ity of various committees Which are to
award medals and prizes at Some later
date for short stories, plays and essays
on longevity and prison reform, Mr..
Tucker said:
"This dinner was born out of dis
content at the Metropolitan club in
Washington, when cambridge Colby
and / could not get drink, and / want
to say that we have continuously re-
belled since that day in Washington
and elsewhere. And a result of that is
this dinner, and Bainbridge Colby is
responsible -
A resolution was adopted by ris-
ing vote congratulating President Will
son on his choice of secretary of
state and Mr.. Colby on the appoint
ment. Augustus Thomas. who. acted as
POSTMASTER in place of Mr.. Colby, rose
after the speech of Mr.. Tucker and
fixing a malignant gaze on a glass of
water, exclaimed:
~ ask you to rise and go through
the motions of drinking the health of
the President of the United States,
Woodrow Wilson. -
After this had been quaffed amid
laughter Mr. Thomas reviewed some of
the old Massachusetts laws regulating
dress, religious worship and public con-
duet with the lash, the ducking stool,
and the scaffold, and said that the re-
formers who put these laws on the
statute books were sincerely of the
opinion that they were elevating man
kind and serving God
"There is no danger to people, he
added, "like a well-informed and re-
inforced fanaticism. -
County Judge Reuben L. Haskell
said that the greatest danger to the
country was in organized minorities ac-
complishing their ends in the absence
| of any expression of sentiment from
! the majority. He said that his unpar
alleled majority in the recent election
was due entirely to the effort of the
Prohibitionists to defeat him. While
denying that he planned to run foi
| governor, Judge Haskell said:
ITO force the several candidates fol
( governor into the open and to STOP
/ pussyfooting | did say that in the
!, event of their default to crystalline tht
important issue in the campaign
would consider the possibility of be
ing a candidate myself. =
In his address Governor Edward
said:
Constitutional prohibition is an is
sue and win remain an issue. Boil
parties will have to consider the prob
lem in their conventions, and the part
that sidesteps it viii in my opinion b
defeated | will make every effort t
have the Democratic party include Il
its platform a plank covering this Is
sue. and l will do my utmost to brini
about the nomination of Democra
who will pledge himself to do ever.
lawful thing to remedy the prescn
condition Of affairs.
~ believe that those congressme
who represented districts wherein tn
people had no opportunity to conside
the subject and who were sent to cor
gress without specific instruction
should be defeated for reelection
said congressman voted in favor of tn
adoption of the 18th amendment c
failed to vote in the negative. As
matter of fact, it is difficult for IN
to decide which type deserves til
greater degree of criticism. One prof.
ably has limited amount of respeC
for the audacity of the congressma
who voted in favor of this iniquitior
legislation. but | cannot give an
quarter whatsoever to the congreSsma
who ducked the vote.