Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-07-18
THE RESOLUTIONS.

We. high license, local option voters
of the state of Vermont in convention
assembled at Burlington. this 10th day
OF July. 1892. declare 1t to be our belief
and judgment that the issues of the
present political campaign are purely
local
National questions are being lost sight
OF in View of the overwhelming impor-
lance Of electing general assembly and
state government which shall repeal
without needless delay the so-called pro-
hibitory law and substitute a high IL
cense-local option statue. and which
shall lay down rules and regulations for
calling and conducting party primaries.
thus rebuking those who recently en-
gagged in the wholesale bribery of vo-
ters.
We declare that state prohibition is in
effective as law intended to repress
the sale of intoxicating liquors and per-
nicious and demoralizng in its opera
ton. We demand that the control of
the liquor traffic be passed over to the
various cities and towns under conserv-
alive regulations prescribed by the leg
islature.
We resent the use of money as polit-
ical argument. as was freely done dur
ing the canvass that eliminated with
the holding OF the recent Republican
convention. The footprints of the briber
are fast ohliterating PARTY lines and we
now declare that machine politicians
shall not be permitted this year I'm Yer
mont to wrap the prestige OF n great po-
litical party about their mis-deeds and
then claim the reward of political virtue
and party fealty.
The passage Of the license local option
referendum resolution proves to be only
sleeping potion administered to license
and prohibition delegates alike. while
the Mccullough car was passing to the
front.
Prohibitionists in county convention
have already denounced and rejected
this resolution. There Is but one thing
for us to do. We, here today. pick up
the gage OF battle thus thrown and We
Will know no other issue until the peo-
pie of the state have settled it,
We demand that the nominee of the
Montpelier convention publish a state
ment of his campaign expenses in detail
in view of the charges made against
him. or that he decline the nomination
The population of Vermont has re-
manned stationary for many years, while
the state expenses have increased at q
rapid rate. They have more than dou-
bled in twenty years This is the price
which the people pay for n political ma
chine operating the prohibitory law fol
profit. An administration and a leg.
islature working solely for the public
good and content to pay public and not
DpHtlCdl utDtS, would ne aDle DN means
of consolidation of commissions and
other economies that suggest themselves
to any business man. and by also covert
ing into the treasury a portion of the
revenues accruing from the high licens,
system. to cut the state expenses in two
without impairng the public service.
We demand that the next Legislature
pass n high license-local option law
and that the same he submitted to tn,
voters of Vermont to become effective on
ly when majority of the voters of tn,
state have signified their approval in tn,
same manner a sthe prohibitory law b,
came effective fifty years ago And in tn,
event of such a law being submitted t,
the people we urge all lovers of Yer
mont to support II at the polls.
We demand that the next legislator,
enact law regarding primaries or eau
cases called for the purpose of putting II
nomination candidates for the various
town city and county and state office
, and to provide such rules and regua
tions as shall safeguard the purity o
nomination rs well as election. AM
also to provide adequate punishment 70
those violating the same.
We advocate true economy in the ad
ministration of public affairs and tn
consolidation of state official boards 81
far as consistent with due regard 70
the efficiency of public service.
We go to the public upon these vita
issues full i'm the faith of the merit o
our cause and prepared to prove the faitl
that is in us.