Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-08-06
the institution.


BILE work? If SO, what do you rec
ommend that the labor there be en-
ployed at? Do you know of any en-
ployment that will yield the state as
much as it now gets for that labor?
10. You complain that the house of
correction has bought rough marble
of the Vermont Marble company.
You have had your expert accountant
at work for long time on the books
of that institution to examine its deal
ings with the Vermont Marble COM
pany. Can you tell of a single
instance where any favoritism has
been shown the Vermont Marble COM
pany by the dealings of the state
officials with it? Can you tell of a
single instance when the state has
paid for marble purchased more than
it would have had to pay elsewhere,
or more than the Marble company
got elsewhere for the same grade of
marble? Can you tell of single
item or deal which ever took place
between the state of Vermont and
the Vermont Marble company that
was anything else than fair, square
and honest?
IL. You have charged the Repub-
lican administration of the state of
Vermont with graft. Can you name
a single official of the state of YER
mont who has ever received one
dollar from the state treasury which
did not legally belong to him?
II. You complain that the state
expenses have largely increased in
the last twenty five years. You are
an intelligent man and know what
constitute the chief items of that
increase. Therefore you know that
these items, which constitute almost
the entire increase, are the expenses
of the county and supreme courts,
the expenses of the state board of
health, the cost of the state labora-
tory of hygiene, the remuneration to
owners of diseased cattle, tn, care of
the insane poor by the state, the
education of the deaf, blind and
feeble minded, the care of the old
soldiers at the Soldiers Home and
the increased appropriation for edu-
cational purposes. Now which of
these items are you going to cut, if
you are elected governor?
Do you advocate the repeal of the
law for state care of the insane poor?
DO you believe that the appropria-
ton for the education of the deaf,
blind and feeble minded should be
cut down?
. Would you make the appropriation
for educational purposes any less than
the law now provides?
Would you withdraw the state sup
port for the home for old soldiers of
the civil war?
What of the expenses of the county
and supreme courts would you cut
down?
Would you make the witness fee
less than it is?
Would you pay jurors less than
they now receive?
Would you cut down the salaries of
the judges of the supreme court?
Would you put the states attorneys
and county clerks back onto the fee
system?
Would you abolish the state board
of health and do away with the state
laboratory?
Would you repeal the provisions Of
the law. for the inspection of cattle
and the killing of such as are found
diseased?
ID. You were chairman of thu
senate committee on finance in 1900
Why did you report from your COM
mittee a bill to levy a direct state
tax for the support of the state gov
eminent and oppose a reasonable
increase in the corporation tax? Was
it because you were a heavy stock
holder in the Rutland Railroad com
pany? Why was it that when you
were in the state senate in 1900, you
worked and voted to save the Rutland
railroad from paying more than one
half the rate of tax that the property
of the common people of the state
had to pay, and at the same time
voted to add to the burden of taxation
of the common people by levying a
direct tax?
IA. Do you now favor direct tax
on the people of the state for the
support of the state government, and
do you oppose an increase in the rail
road tax so that the railroads shall
pay in proportion to what other
property does? If so. why is your
platform silent on that subject?
Is. Can you name state in the
Union which is more economically
| and honestly administered than ia the