Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-09-02
jim DUMPS" BUT
NEVER SUNNY JIM
These Burdens Are In Fact
Merely Hot Air, For the Re-
publican Party Has Removed
Them---How Vermont Fami.
lies Now Pay Nothing Fol
State Expenses

The Democratic Advertising Agent is
still in the Jim bumps stage and
there is nothing to Indicate that he will
ever become sunny JIM" which isn't
remarkable when the quality of the
goods he is obliged to advertise is
taken into consideration.
One of the products of the brain of
this agent deals with the burden Of
State expenses as distributed among
families in Vermont. According to this
agent the various families in the State
paid the small sum of S3.7G12 each for
State expenses in the sunny year of
1882, while in the dark and gloomy
year of 1903 each and every family paid
$10.52 % for the same purpose.
The agent reckons on the basis OF
four and nine-tenths persons for every
family in the state. SO far as the Re
pubicans are concerned there is no de.
sire to mutilate the families of the
State either physically or statistically
and for the purpose in view five persons
will be counted an average Vermont
family, computed on the census fig.
ures of the census preceding the date.
We have not examined the figures in
the Democratic agents statement con.
corning this alleged great family bur
den and the increase therein, but it may
be presumed they are right-from the
agents standpoint at least. What we
desire to call the voters attention to are
some simple statistics which the agent
apparently overlooked in his search
but which he cannot deny the accuracy
of.
To more fully show the trend of the
Republican administration of Vermont
affairs we will 90 back to the biennia.
term ending in 1872 and demon
strate how the burden of State ex.
penses has been removed from the peo'
pie until now not vestige remains.
Biennial Families in State Familys
Term. State. Tax. Share
1S71-72 ...G6.11O $1,0o6, s27.S2 S1G.1;
1SS1-S2 ..G6,457 AGA 1919 Cos
19O1-O2 =. .GS,72S 2GS, 52249 3.91
10000 =. .GS, 72S none none
If this is not an example of good gov.
such an example be found? The Re
publican party from the very beginning
of its reign of power in Vermont has
always worked for the best interests
of the State and the people. Yer
mont has today State government thai
would be absolutely impossible in al
most any other State in the Union, 9
inh -
political economy look upon with ad
miration and wonder. But 1t is moi
necessary TO quote outside theorists
when every voter in Vermont who has
honestly looked into conditions in othel
States knows that in all the country OIL
in all the world there is no better and
cleaner government than exists and ha.
| existed in his own mountain common
wealth.
Why this is so may be attributed t
several causes, but the chief cause is
that the men who have made our laws
and executed them have been and are
thoroughly honest and devoted to the
welfare of the State and people. THAI
is also why the Republican party
is the only reason.
Boodleism and graft, those twin de
mons of political corruption which &C
with the rule Of the Democratic party
just as surely as night follows sunse
or the buzzard follows where carriol
abounds, have never brought disgrac,
to Vermont, and just so long as Yer
| mOntlrS IN
which now permeates the political life
of the State, so long may they be prouC
of their Green Mountain home.
If the Democratic advertising agent
who has been giving the voters of tn,
State so excellent an example of VIVA
Democratic honesty" really is, know
the most patent facts concerning tn,
history of government by his party il
other states and cities, he knows tina
the story is one of corruption withou
limit and graft without restriction. |
he is ordinarily intelligent, which ma,
be gravely doubted when some of hi
utterances in this campaign are consid
cred, he knows just why the yer,
great majority of Vermonters are Re
publicans. He knows that their GOV
ernors have been honest and able
that their legislators have been cleal
and above suspicion, and he also know
that as people Vermonters admir-
civic decency, and that the Democrat
record as it has been studied and OF
served by the people of the State is S
void Of these things that the thought
full voter turns from it as a song bir
would fee from Shiny serpent L
brief, Mr.. Democratic Advertiser
Agent, the voters of Vermont know b.
experience that the Republican part
in the State is able and honest and the