Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-09-26
REFERENDUM UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Hon Elisha May So Declares and Gives Am
pie Reasons.

ter and other Republican leaders mad
fun of the Democratic claim that a ref
erendum would not stand the test o
the courts. The referendum to whicl
the Democrats referred was the refer
endum named in the platforms of tn
Mccullough and Clement branches o
the Republican party,
Let me quote from each, that Their
may be no mistake as to what the twt
Republican wings pledge themselves Il
support. The regular wing declared il
the very first paragraph that il ad
hered to its long cherished belief tina
the unrestricted traffic in intoyicatin!
liquors is a public evil, and that mate
rial notifications of the existing Law
on that subject, should be made only
after thorough discussion and matur,
deliberation by the people''-not by
the legislature. 1t then adds. Nv,
request the state legislature, at it,
next session. to make provision for as.
pertaining the will of the people by di.
rect vote upon the acceptance or re-
lection of license and local option law.
regulating the sale of Intoxicating Ii.
quor, and further providing that upon
popular vote in favor of such law,
duly ascertained. the same shall he
and become a statute law of the state
in force. = The language used cannot
be mistaken. The law. if framed by
the Legislature, was to have no force I'M
til popular vote in its favor was as
certained Then. and then only. was
the same TO "be and become a statute
law of the state in force.
The Clement platform was not quite
so specific upon the subject of popular
vote 1t declared, I'VE demand that
the next Legislature pass high license
local option law, and that same be sub
mitted TO the voters of Vermont, to be
come effective only when a majority of
the voters of the state have signifed
their approval in the same manner as
the prohibitory law became effective 20
wears ago. y
How was the old Maine law enacted
in lsj2: That law provided that the
act shall take effect on the second
Tuesday of March next 1873 provided
that if a majority of the ballots TO be
cast as hereinafter provided. shall be
no, then this act shall take effect on
the first Monday of December y. ID.
1888. The statute then provided that
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