St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-07-08
assumed control of the government in

assumed control of the government in
1861.
We have witnessed our population in
crease from forty million to ninety mil
lion people; our wealth increase from
16, Zoo, 100000 to 10000, 100000,
dollars; we have seen the arts, sciences,
and inventions under the fostering care
of the Republican party, multiply and
expand to degree hitherto unexampled
in human history; wehave seen the stars
and stripes, the beloved symbol of the
Republic. placed where God and human
ity designed, and none have pulled it
down.
2. We hereby express ourselves as in
perfect accord with the principles and
policies of the present national admins
tration which has given to the humblest,
as we'll as the most exalted citizen OF the
Republic equal protection before the law;
which has restrained predatory wealth
and forced it into proper channels of
human effort; which has punished GRIM
inals, high and low alike without regard
to party, creed, race or color, all under
the wise and careful guidance of our be-
loved and matchless President, Theodore
Roosevelt.
8. We endorse in it's entirety, without
the dotting of an Tor the crossing of t,
the magnificent and statesmanlike plat
form recently constructed by the Nation
al Republican party at Chicago, and
pledge to those distinguished statesmen
who are to be our standard bearers,
William Howard Taft and James School
craft Sherman, our unqualified and en-
thusiastic support.
4. We recognize in the nominee for
Congress of the Second Congressional
District gentleman of broad culture,
high character and eminent ability, and
pledge to him our earnest efforts to Sc
cure his triumphant election.
5. We receive with most cordial endorse
ment the principles enunciated at the
recent Republican state convention at
Montpelier and the distinguished gentle
men nominated there for state officers,
and pledge ourselves to give to each a
majority so overwhelming on the first
day of September next as will send con-
sternation into the ranks of democracy.
6. We most heartily endorse the admin
istration of Governor Proctor and believe
that by his eminent ability, integrity,
and careful attention to all his needs of
the state, he has amply redeemed the
pledges made at the time of the election.
7. This statement of our feelings would
be sadly wanting if we failed to make
some appropriate mention of our princi-
pal opponent, the Democratic party. 1t
is a g eat party and its work for the last
half century has been of the highest
value. Its chief, almost it's entire bus
mess has been it's unsparing, merciless
of the Republican party. Who
shall estimate the immense amount of
good accomplished by this political
in thus keeping the Repub-
lican party humbly, carefully and bene-
hcently making history?
8. The fostering of education and
has always been a cardinal
doctrine of the Republican party, We,
therefore, earnestly desire the members
of the next legislature to use their best
endeavors to make our common school
system efficient, to curtail the evils of
as much as can be done by
and to reduce to minimum
Sabbath-breaking and all kindred evils
as rife as at the present time.