The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-01
Jim DUMPS" BUT
NEVER SUNNY JIM"
These Burdens Are In Fact
Merely Hot Air, For the Re-
publican Party Has Removed
lies Now Pay Nothing For
State Expenses

still in the Jim Dumps" 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 $3.761a each for
State expenses in the sunny year of
1882, while in the dark and gloomy
year of 1903 each and every family paid
$1052 2-3 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
publicans are concerned there is no de.
sire to mutilate the families of the
State either physically or statistfcally
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.
the Democratic agents statement con-
corning this alleged great family bur
den and the increase therein, but it may
be presumed they are right-frQm 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 go back to the biennial
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 Family's
Term. State. Tax. Share.
1S71-72 ...66,11O $1,000, s27s2 Sigh
1SS1-S2 :. .66,457 464,753.79 699
19O1-O2 :. .6S,72S 26S, 52249 3.91
10000 ..6S,72S none none
If this is not an example of good gov
eminent in State affairs where can
such an example be found? The Re-
publican party from the very beginning
of it's reign of power in Vermont has
always worked for the best interests
of the State and the people. Yer.
mont has today State government that
would be absolutely impossible in al
most any other State in the Union, a
government which keen students of
political economy look upon with ad-
miration and wonder. But it Is not
necessary to quote outside theorists,
when every voter in Vermont who has
honestly looked into conditions in other
States knows that in all the country or
In all the world there is no better and
cleaner government than exists and has
existed in his own mountain common
wealth.
Why this is so may be attributed to
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 That
is also why the Republican party
has such hold upon ermont, ana that
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 sunset
or the buzzard follows where carrioI
abounds, have never brought disgrac,
| to Vermont, and just so long as Yer
| monters remain true to the honesty
which now permeates the political life
| of the State, so long may they be PROUD
of their Green Mountain home.
If the Democratic advertising agent
who has been giving the voters of tn,
State so excellent an example of wha
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 l
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 clea
and above suspicion, and he also know
that as a people Vermonters admir-
civic decency, and that the Democrat
record as it has been studied and oil
served by the people of the State is s
void Of these things that the thought
full voter turns from it as song Dir
would flee from a Shiny serpent. l
brief, Mr.. Democratic Advertiser
Agent, the ,ters of Vermont know b
experience <sat the Republican part
in the Stat~ ~ able and honest and the