Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-07-13
Statement from the Republican State Committee to the Voters
Vermont Summary Of Platform
PERSONNEL OF THE FULL TICKET NOMINATED
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nations now made to the respective state
offices.
The platform of the Republican party
promulgated by its recent state conven-
ton may be briefly summarized as fol-
lows:
1t commends the wise legislation by
the general assembly of 1904 which en-
acted into law the important promises of
the platform adopted by the Republican
state convention of that year This leg
islation provided for what has proved
to be the most searching investigation of
all our public institutions; 1t required
all accounts for public services to be
itemized; it authorized the auditor of ac-
counts to prevent unreasonable disburse-
ments; it restricted state institutions to
the use of one-twelfth of their annual
appropriations monthly; it prohibited the
acceptance Of a commission on any pur-
chase of supplies; it required all officers
of our public institutions to render quar-
terly financial statements of all fees re-
ceived; it regulated child labor; and lin
tied municipal Indebtedness.
The platform this year proposes fur
Their progress by promising increased ad-
vancement in the education of our chill
dren and asks in aid of this that teachers
be better qualified and better paid.
II guarantees the continued care and
training of the deaf, dumb, blind and
feeble minded and the welfare of the in
same time promising economy in the
expenditure of the states money for
these purposes.
It recognizes the evils of the fee sys-
tenn and pledges sensible and practical
corrective legislation.
1t recommends such amendments to the
present caucus law as will remove the
features which have proved Objectionable
in it's use, while it retains and provides
for those which will secure the purity Of
the caucus.
1t pledges the faith of the party to lay
hold of the problem of unequal and double
taxation with a purpose to relieve the
people of Vermont of those evils.
1t pledges a continued trial of the local
option law
expenditure of the states money upon
highways and demands that this money
be laid out in permanent work.
1t urges the reorganization of our Judi
ciary system and recommends uniform
system of municipal accounting.
1t insists upon the education of the in
mates of our penal institutions and that
every opportunity be given them TO be-
come and remain better men and women.
1t favors such legislation as may be
found important to protect the people
against inequitable Determinations in
intra-state commerce.
Fletcher d. Proctor's speech of accept
ance is a platform in itself. He promises,
if elected, to administer the business af-
fairs of the state with the same fidelity
which he has exhibited in the conduct
of his private affairs, giving to the states
business his best judgment and ability;
he expects Vermont to be progressive
in order to keep our people at home
and draw strangers within our borders;
but demands that this progress be along
the line of practical and conservative
expansion rather than in radical innova-
ton or parsimonious retrenchment. He
asks for good roads but is opposed to
an issue of state bonds for the purpose
of building them; he seeks to achieve
this object by better supervision and by
a more intelligent expenditure of the
money raised by both the state and the
towns for highway purposes. He ex-
presses the hope that the next general
assembly will pass a law making our
judicial system more efficient and secur-
ing a better and more economical adj
ministration of justice in our lower courts.
He demands skilled supervision of schools,
a higher standard for teachers, a rigid
enforcement of the child labor law and
the gradual introduction in centralized
schools of Industrial training. He seeks
the restraint of the sale of intoxicating
liquors along the lines of the present law,
which is tending toward better control
of the traffic He looks for gradual de-
velopment of our state along all lines of
industry and endeavor, and calls upon
every citizen TO improve the advantages
and opportunities which are ours and to
work together to the common end of in
creasing the prosperity Of our state; and
finally promises, If elected to uphold and
advance the good name of Vermont and
the highest welfare of our people so far
as his experience, ability and strength will
permit.
The candidates nominated by the Re-
publican party include Fletcher d. Proc
tor, a man against whom no charge of
corruption, dishonesty, incapacity or
wrongdong ever has or can be made
with any truth or justification. He is in
all respects a self-made man, earning his
right to preference and promotion by his
personal work and worth and experience
in every walk of life. He has served his
town in many local Offices and with far
more than ordinary distinction mis- town
and county and state in both branches
of the general assembly. In his private
life he has for years managed and oper-
ated with his own directing genius the
largest business enterprise in Vermont.
He is a clean wholesome product of our
state, resourceful, earnest, progressive and
honest.
George H. Prouty, the Republican candi-
date for lieutenant governor, is an ener-
getic broad-gauged business man of the
highest standing and fitted in all re-
spects for the high Office to which he
has been nominated. He is thoroughly
alive to the needs of Vermont, devoted
to her interests and Jealous of her good
name He is best loved and best appre
ciated where he is best known,-in his
home town and county. If called upon
to act as chief executive he is competent
to fill the Office creditably and well.
Edward H. Deavitt, Republican candi-
date for state treasurer, is man OF the
highest type of our young Vermont man
hood well equipped for the office and
ambitious to perform the best possible
service for all the people OF the state.
In Frederick G. Fleetwood, secretary OF
state, Horace F. Graham, auditor of ac-
counts, and Clarke G. Fits, attorney
general, the Republicans have nominated
tried men whose service during past
years has been up to a high mark OF
efficiency and whose record is not marred
by incompetency or dishonor.
Such are the candidates Of the Repub-
lican party. The opposition is challenged
TO point where any one OF them is tainted
with graft, wrongdoing in public or
private life, incompetency as state off,
Gals, maladministration in any public
office or dereliction OF any private duty. |
If the Republican party has in all its
10000 adherents within the boundaries
of Vermont seven men cleaner in private |
morals, more honest in the performance
OF public duty, more capable to fifty adj
minister the business of the state more |
DESTROYS of protecting and fc stering the |
IN To-