The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-08-30
POLITICAL
EPIGRAMS
UphoIdins Republican Side
of This Campaign
FROM LOCAL COMMITTEE
Republican Party Only One To
Be Trusted with the Affairs
of the Country.

The following are bunch of politi-
cal epigrams compiled by the local
Republican club press committee.
BY Secretary TAFT
1t has been charged that the Presid-
ent will be strong headed tyrant. In
all experience | never have met man
in authority who has less pride of
opinion in the judgments that he has
formed than has Theodore Roosevelt.
No one has ever charged serious
difference of opinion between Secretary
of the State Hay and the president
touching our foreign policy and no
one could doubt that Mr. Hay was safe
and sane. Was there, therefore, any
reason to doubt that the president is
equally so?
The republicans hope that the time
may come when the Filipinos may be
safely granted independence, and
think that it will come, but the reason
why they are not in favor of the prom
ising of that, is because such a prom
Use will greatly mislead the Filipino
people and greatly complicate the sit
uation in the islands with respect to
the success of the present government
there and its orderly continuance. No
promise can be made to the Filipinos,
except that we will grant them indepen-
dence when they are ready for COM
plete self.government
By Speaker Cannon
Our main effect will be to get the
vote out. In Vermont, for instance,
the only question is whether the ma
iority will be 10000 or 35, 900
Judge Parker's speech is intended to
be all things to all men and like all
efforts OF that kind it proves to be
nothing to any man.
The labor complications will not af-
feet the situation. 1t is only a ques-
tion of the division of profits. and ev-
erybody knows that no such question
could have possibly arisen under the
last democratic administration for
there were no profits.
BY Percival w. Clement
The republican party was organized
so years ago, and Vermont being the
first state in the Union to incorporate
a provision in the constitution against
slavery, gave it glad hand.
There was a little local breeze two
years ago and it did us good, but usu-
ally Vermont has voted and then laid
the national platform on the shelf for
four years.
The liquor law ought not to be cal
led the Observation-Disclosures" and
may as justly be styled the prohibit
ion-local-option-law" since ii gives an
option for the one as we'll as for the
other.
The only plea that can be urged in
support of the democratic ticket in
September is, that it will help reduce
the republican ma ajority; the ticket can
not be elected.
The mission of the republican party
will not be finished as long as there is
wrong to right, an injury to repair,
or man who has to struggle upward
toward success in the midst of unsur-
mountable difficulties.
BY Tabor-Advocate Brown
In all our manufacturing industries
in the early sixties, shops were run
and l3 hours per day, The republican
party during the 40 years it has had
control of national affairs, has been
chiefly instrumental in modifying the
ancient and establishing the present
rule of eight to nine hours.
The republican party has constantly |
striven for short days, until now twen-
ty- three states have established res.
trictions in the hours of labor applic-
able to women and children.
In the congress of the United States |
the republican party has invariably |
adhered to the principle that hestan-
dard of American living must be main