The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-08-05
10 the Voters OF Vermont,

We are again face TO face with the
citizens duty Of personal interest and
personal action in sell government az
dictated by the arbitrament OF the bal.
lot, reeurrent biennally in the state and
quadrennialy in the nation, The Yer.
mont election comes first OF all the
states and the voice Of Vermont rem.
derod two months before the general
election as indicating the temper Of the
people, has ever been held as OF much
consequences and, further, while the
issues OF the present presidential con.
test will lind decision in states other
than our own, the size OF the majority
given the Republican ticket IN Vermont
this year, will be no less mcaningiul
than in former years. Therefore, the
Republican State Committee bespcaks
the full measure OF activity on tae part
OF all Republicans OF past party aiiilia.
ton and Of all other citizens, who
through independence OF view on out Of
recognition OF rational balance OF
merit between the two great parties,
may ally themselves with Republican.
ISM that the influence OF the Vermont
election may be the equal Of toe best
standards OF the past
In Vermont. the recent campaign for
the nominations 60 the state offices, has
established beyond need OF further pre-.
sentation, the superior qualifications Of
all tho gentlemen named upon the Re.
publican State ticket, and what can be
said in TINS respect is true Of the acts
of the Republican Congressional and
County Conventions. Indeed, the Re
publican State ticket, from the two lead.
ing names OF Prouty and Mead down
through the list OF nominees Tor minor
Offices, is one commanding the fullest
party support and one whose merit IN.
yites the attention OF other voters not
subscrvient to a radical opposing part.
ilan,hip. The national ticket as pre-.
tenting TAFT and Sherman admittedly
from the view point OF all parties, gives
the country the very strongest combin
alton OF standard bearers available in
a national election OF the present As
representative OF progressive American
ism OF the hour a. embodying the highest
types OF men whose records appeal TO
the national electorate the names Of
William Howard Taft and James School
craft sherman make national ticket
wen nigh ideal.
During the past two years the record
OF accomplishment by the Republican
party in Vermont is worthy OF all en-
eomium. As the result Of wise legisa-
ton and praiseworthy effectiveness in
the state has taken for
ward steps OF most congratulatory sig.
nihcance. Through school and highway
business methods in the
Of penal institutions, the
strengthening OF the power Of the rail
road commission, in economy in state
expenses, and in numerous other ways,
the party is enabled to render to the
people an account Of its stewardship
wholly beneficial and safe from attack.
So far as preliminaries have gone in their
relation to the policy OF the immediate
future, in the same regard they all point
to an insistence on the part OF the
people Of Vermont that the ag-
gressiyeness and progressiveness of
the Repnblicanism Of the i'm
mediate past shall be continued In
fact, the only question yet unanswered
Vermont politics, is how
near the state may come to making a
new record in its endorsement at the
polls in September OF the great work !
If advancement now so well under way |
and whose continuance is the popular
demand OF the hour.
Nationally the Republican party ap- !
ocals to the electorate with the prom
se and the ability to make such revision
Vi the tariff schedules as shall meet the I
INST requirements OF manufacture and 4
rade without sacrifice OF the protection /
and to provide currency sys
,cm that shall meet both yday and (
demands, without opening the
lour for uncertainty and experiment
nimical to public credit. Again, in its
altitude towards labor, the Republican
,arty accepts the eminently just and