Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-08-05
To tie Voters of Vermont:

Wo dTo dSdlu lace 10 race With the
citizens duty Of personal interest and
personal action in self government as
dictated by the arbitrament of the
ballot, recurrent bienniaIly in the
state and quadrennially in the nation.
The Vermont election comes first of
all the states and the voice of Yer
mont, rendered two months before the
general election as indicating the
temper of the people, has ever been
held as of much consequence; and,
presidential contest will find decision
of the majority given the Republican
no less meaningful than in former
years. Therefore, the Republican
State Committee bespeaks the full
measure of activity on the part of all
Republicans Of past party utilization
and of all other citizens, who through
independence OF view Or out of rec
IGNITION of rational balance of merit
between the two great parties, may
ally themselves with RepubIicanism,
that the influence of tho Vermont
election may be the equal of the best
standards Of the past.
Ia Vermont, the recent camp aion
for the nominations to the state offices.
has established beyond need of fur
ther presentation, the superior quail
| fications of all the gentlemen named
upon the Republican State ticket, and
what can be said in this respect is true
of the acts of the Republication Con-
gressional and County Conventions.
| indeed, the Republican State ticket.
from the two leading names of Proutv
and Mead down through the list Of
nominees for minor Offices, is one
commanding the fullest party support
and one whose merit invites the
attention of other voters not subserv-
lent to radical opposing partiz an ship
The national ticket as pretending
Taft and Sherman, admittedly from
the view point of all parties, gives the
country the very strongest combina-
ton of standard bearers available in
a national election of the present. As
representative of progressive Ameri-
canism CT the hour, as embodying the
highest types of men whose records
appeal to the national electorate, the
names of William Howard Taft and
James Schoolcraft Sherman make a
national ticket we'll nigh ideal.
During the past two years the record
of accomplishment by the Republican
party in Vermont is worthy Of all en-
comium. AS the result of wise legis-
lation and praiseworthy effectiveness
in administration, the state has taken
forward steps of most ,congratulatory
significance. Through school and
highway Improvement, business meth
DDS in the administration of penal
institutions, the strengthening of the
power of the railroad 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 ben
official and safe from attack. SO fal
as preliminaries have gone in their
relation to the policy of the immediate
future, in the same regard they al
point to an insistence on the part o.
} the people of Vermont that the az.
gressiveness and progressiveness Of
the Republicanism of the immediate
past shall be continued. In fact. the
only question yet unanswered oncerr
ing Vermont politics, is how near the
state may come TO making a new
, record in it's endorsement at Che polls
in September of the great work o.
advancement now so we'll under way
. and whose continuance is the popular
) demand of the hour.
Nationally the Republican party ap.
peals to the electorate with the prom
Use and the ability to make such re-
vision of the tariff schedules as shall
meet the just requirements of manu-.
facturer and trade without sacrifice OF