St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-08-05
To the Voters of Vermont:

To the Voters of Vermont:
We are again face to face with the
citizens duty of personal interest and
personal action in selfgovernment as
dictated by the arbitrament of the bal
lot, recurrent biennially in the state and
quadrennially in the nation The Yer
mont election comes first OF all the
states and the voice of Vermont, render
ed two months before the general
election as indicating the temper of the
people, has ever been held as of much
consequence and, further, while the
issues of the present presidential contest
will find decision in states other than
our own, the size of the majority given
the Republican ticket in Vermont. this
year, will be 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 affiliation and
of all other citizens, who through in
dependence of view or out of recognition
of a rational balance of merit between
the two great parties, may ally tn, M
selves with Republicanism, that the in
fluence of the Vermont election may be
the equal OF the best standards of the
past
In Vermont, the recent campaign for
the nominations to the state Offices, has
established beyond need of further pre-
sentatlon, the superior qualifications of
all the gentlemen named upon the Re-
publican State ticket, and what can be
said in this respect is true of the acts of
the Republican Congressional and Coun-
ty Conventions. Indeed, the Republican
State ticket, from the two leading names
of Prouty and Mead down through the
list of nominees for minor offices, is one
commanding the fullest party support
and one whose merit invites the atten-
ton of other voters not subservient to a
radical opposing partizanship. The ma
tional ticket as presenting TAFT and
Sherman, admittedly from the view
point of all parties, gives the country the
very strongest combination of standard
bearers available in a national election
of the present. AS representative of
progressive Americansm OF 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 legisla-
ton and praiseworthv effectiveness in
administration, the state has taken for
ward steps of most congratulatory
significance. Through school and high
way improvement, business methods 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 beneficial and safe from attack.
So far as prelimnaries have gone in their
relation to the policy of the immediate
future, in the same regard they all point
to an insstence on the part of the people
of Vermont that the aggressiveness and
progressiveness of the Republication of
the immediate past shall be continued.
In fact, the only question yet unanswer-
ed, concerning 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 of
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 promise
and the ability to make such revision of
the tariff schedules as shall meet the Just
requirements Of manufacture and trade
without sacrifice of the protection prin-
ciple, and to provide a currency system
that shall meet both everyday and
emergent demands, without opening the
door for uncertainty and experiment in
imical to the public credit Again, in its
attitude towards labor, the Republican
party accepts the eminently just and
clearly expressed views of its candidate
for the Presidency, William H. Taft, as
spoken by him in his recent address of
acceptance, in part as follows: