The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-01
TEN THINGS 10 aamaMaga.

the Local Option Law--A Record
Too Plain for Anybody to Mis-
read-The Only Effective Way TO
Deal With the Trickery
When the Republican party asks
the people OF Vermont 10 trust Il
with the needed amendments of the
LEGAL -option-license law, Intelligent
voters will not fail to note and re-
member
a. That but FOR Republican bad
faith the law would not need material
amendment at all, that as proposed
from the Democratic caucus il was
free from practically every one Of
the defects now needing remedy, and
II Il could have been enacted in the
shape Democrats asked It would have
been the best liquor law anywhere in
existence.
90 That the Republican platform
this year-mereiy 70 give force and
efficiency to its fundamenta4 princi-
ple'-is adroitly worded, 50 that the
Battell bill or any other old thing cap
be inflicted ON the state.
90 That when asked by its
chairman for an explicit promise in
favor of the law-that after amend
ment, the same be further continued
IN force, the committee on resolutions
III tltc INtR4DlANHfA A-AAAN Ne'Affttiftt
REFUSED, and the convention rati-
fed its action in striking out these
words, even after they had been
printed as the Republican platform.
(A.) That the gross bad faith Of
the Republican party in this whole
matter two years ago, IN attempting
TO cheat the state with a bogus refer
enduin, with the Battel biA in place
Of what the party had promised, and
r.. 80 - ~
tended to be fatal TO II. give ample
warning of what to expect now. II
is iof INDELiBLE RECORD on the
Legislative Journals that the Repub-
Mcan party OVER AND OVER
AGAIN. by VOTE Of TWO and
THREE TO ONE ,shamelessly Re-
PUDIATED EVERY PROMISE 1T
had made to the people.
go That the warning IS repeat
~ IN the correspondence Rev George
w. Morrow has had with every as
pirant tor Republican nomination 60
the Legislature. whom he dared 70
approach, to pledge him against the
present law
l6.@ That between Morrow and the
silent workings of the machine, Re-
publicans who We're honestly in favor
Of the law have generally found
themselves. in town and county
| UEAliT ana EADellkl0O~tt ftiQ 0AA
often without suspecting what allied
them
as That some county conven-
lions, like that of Orange have mani
fully disclosed their purpose, but
more like washington, have sneak
ingly done 80 BY nominating for SEN
ators men secretly pledged to prohi-
bition.
(s.) That while the House is sure
] -, fa kn min Civ
for prohibition Morrow and the ma
/ chine are confident that they have
secured the Senate also by nominat-
1 ing candidates. who with very few ex-
| ceptions are lifelong prohibitionists.
(9.) That the purpose Is disclosed
| by the action ia Chittenden county
I one 81 the most high-handed ever
known anywhere and 50 bad that
! Judge Powers has ordered action
reversed refusing Local OPP
tionists the right to be represented
on the official ballot, though they
had filed their nomination papers as
/ the law requires. The law says NOM
nations may be made by caucuses or
| conventions OR aMAY ALSO be
made BY CERTIFICATES or NOM
NATION signed by voters residing
etc. and the clerk SHALL then
cause such ballots 70 be printed
/ The machines decision IN Chittendep
| county Is that the Local Optionists
constitute party casting over one
per cent of the votes at the last cleo
ton and therefore their nominations
/ must be made by caucus or conven-
| ton If true as regards them. 1t is
| also trne as regards the Democratic
! or Republican party and 1t only
| needs that any committee carelessly
or corruptly neglect TO call such eau
| Gus or convention. 10 exclude It's tick
et from the ballot.
(f0) This procedure of which
even q child can see the prenosferous-
ness. had for its plain purpose to deny
| amy citizen the chance to vote for lo-
| cal option without voting the Demo
| cratic ticket which the machine then
tries 10 prevent BY yelling that
Roosevelt must be saved
win these voters. with their eyes
| wide open to this continuous Repub-
Eearf record of trickery with abso-
lutte knowledge Of the determination
Of the machine IN unison with sin-
cerc prohibitionists, to restore prohi-
hition for the sake Of the vast plume
der 1t contained for the machine and
IT'S operators and 10 do i THIS
YEAR because they know that every
day of the continuance Of the present
law. even with It's defects, strength
shin with the state strewn with thg
political remains of Clement men
and sincere local option Republicans
slaughtered tn almost every case
where they have come before Repuh-
lican caucus OF convention because
/ they refused to Join in the Repuhlit
can betrayal Of promise two l'
ago or Republican bad faith hll
year-Nith certainty that ii Is 0uly Z
! question OF what the Republican
party dares in the coming Legisla.
ture that If it can fool the people
into standing by 1t fin full pld-ttm'
strength through this crisis outrigh
repeal win be its policy II it gets
SUFFICIENT scare It viii return to Til
Batteil bill or some such scheme. ant
that at the very least It's game vii
be to put the law into such shap'
that nobody gill be satisfied with |
and then submit It 70 another refer
endum-will these voters allow tn
machine to thus make them its tools
it is desirable and important I,
elect to the House and Senate Loca
Optionists who are tried and true i
the cause and who were not Loca
! Optionists for the first time in thi
campaign fof. they can do grea
good in fighting and exposing tn
machine game
But the best and most effective wa,
IS at the same time % roM UP such
vote for the Democratic state Tickle
as VIII paralyze the machine will
even greater terror than tina