Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-07-16
A STATEMENT TO THE VOTERS OF
VERMONT.

aud 90 the nominations now made TO
the respective state offices.
The platform Of the Republican
party promulgated by its recer state
convention may be briefly summarized
as follows:
Il commends the wise legislation by
the general assembly o. 1904 which
enacted into law the important prom
ises of the platform adopted by the
Republican state convention Of that
year. This legislation provided for
what has proven to be a most search
log investigation of all our public ia
stitutions; it requires all accounts Tor
public services TO be itemized; it au-
thorized the cuditor of accounts to
prevent unreasonable disbursements;
it restricted state institutions 70 the
use Of one twelfth of their annual APP
preparations monthly; it prohibited
the acceptance of a commission on
any purchase of supplies; it required
all officers of our public institutions
TO render quarterly financial state
ments, and county clerks and ali sal
aired officials to render statements OF
all fees received; it regulated child
labor; and limited municipal indebt-
edness.
The platform this year proposes
further progress by promising in-
creased, advancement in the educa-
ton of our children and asks in aid of
this that teachers be better qualified
and better paid.
It Guarantees the continued care
and training of the deaf, dumb, blind
and feeble minded and the welfare, of
the inmates of our state institutions,
at the same time promising. economy
in the expenditure of the tate's
money for these purposes.
1t recognizes the evils of the fee
system and pledges sensible and prac-
teal corrective legislation.
1t recommends such endmerts TO
the present caucns law as will remove
the features. which have proved OBJ
5ectionable in j use, while it retains
and provides for those which will So
cure the purity Of the caucus.
1t pledges the faith of the party to
lay hold of the problem of unequal
double taxation witha purpose.to re-
lieve the people of Vermont of those
evils.
IL pledges a continued trial of the
local option law.
It calls for better supervision of the
states money upon highways and de-
mauds that this money beiaid out in
permanent work.
It urges the reorganization Of our
judiciary system and recommends q
uniform system ofmunicipai account
ing.
1t insists uRpn the edu6at on of the
inmates of our penal institutions and
that ryopportunity be given them
TO become and remain better men and
women.
found important to protect the peo-
pie against negotiable discrimina
lions in intra state commerce.
Fletcher D. Proctor's speech Of &C.
Sceptance is platform in itself. He
promises, if~elected, to administer the
busine IS affairs 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; ne expects
Vermont to be progressive in order to
keep our people at home and draw
strangers within our borders; but de-
mands that this progress be along the
line of practical and conservative ex-
pansion rather than in radical inuova-
ton or parsimonious retrenchment
He asks for good roads but is opposed
to an issue of state bonds for the pur.
pose of building them; he seeks tc
achieve this object by better super
vision and by more intelligent ex
penditurerof the money raised by boil
the state and the towns for highway
purposes. He expresses the hope tina
the next general assembly will pass ;
law making our judicial system more
efficient and securing a better ant
more economical administration o
justice in our lower courts. He de
mands skilled supervision of schools
a higher standard for teachers, rigie
enforcement of the child labor Law
and the gradual introduction in cen
tralized schools of industrial training
He seeks the restraint of the sale o
intoxicating liquors along the lines o
the present law, which is tending to-
ward better control Of the traffic. He
looks for a gradual development o
our state along all lines of industry
and endeavor, and calls upon every
oiti1an RI imnrovA the adVantapps