Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1908-08-07
An Address to Voters.
Republican State Committee Urges Activity
Early and Effective.

To the Voters Of u mont
We are again face to face with the
citizens duty of personal interest aud
personal action in self government a.
dictated by the arbitrament OF the bal
lot, recurrent bier,nially in the state
and quadrenuially in the nation. The
Vermont election comes frs; of all the
states and the voice of Vermont, ren-
dered two months before the general
election rs indicating the temper OF the
people, has ever been hell 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 i'll Vermont, this
wear, will be no less meaniugful than in
former years. Therefore, the Republi-
can State Committee bespeaks the full
measure of activity on the part of all
Republicans of past party affiliatlon and
of all other citizens, who through indie
pendemce of view or out of recognition
of a rational balance Of merit between
the two great parties may ally them
selves with Repuhlicauism, that the
influence of the Vermont election may
be the equal of the best standards of the
past.
In Vermont, the recent campaign fol
| the nominations to the state offices, has
established beyond need OF further pre-
sentation, the superior qualifications o.
all the gentlemen named upon the Re
publican State ticket, and what can bt
said in this respect is true OF the acts o
the Republican congressional and count,
conventions. Indeed, the Republican
state ticket, from the two leading name
of Prouty and Mead down through thu
list of nominees for minor offices, is on,
commanding the fullest party supper
and one whose merit invites the atten
ton of other voters not subservien
to radical opposing partizanship. TIN
national ticket as presenting Taft an'
Sherman, admittedly from the view
point of all parties, gives the countr
the very strongest combination of stand
ard bearers available in nationa
election of the present. As represent
alive of progressive Americanism of tn
hour, as embodying the highest types o
men whose records appeal to the nation
al electorate the names of William
Howard Taft and James SCHOOLGIRL
Sherman make national ticket we'll
nigh ideal.
During the past two years the recor,
of accomplishment by the Republican
party in Vermont is worthy OF all encon
ium. AS the result of wise Legislation
and praiseworthy effectiveness in admin
istration, the state has taken forwar,
steps of most congratulatory significance
Through school and highway improve
ment, business methods in the admin
istration of penal institutions, tn
strengthening of the power of the raj
road commission, in economy in stat
expenses, and in numerous other ways
the party is enabled to render to tn
J people an account of its STEWARDSHIP
wholly beneficial and safe from an at
) tack. So far as preliminaries hav
gone in their relation to the policy o
the immediate future in the same regar
they all point to an insistence on tn
part of the people of Vermont that tn
aggressiveness and progressiveness of tn
Republicanism of the immediate pas
shall be continued. In fact, the onl
question yet unanswered concerning
Vermont politics is how near the stat
may come to making new record i
Its endorsement at the polls in Septem
her of the great work of advancement
now so well under way and whose cor
tinuance is the popular demand of tn
hour
Nationally the Republican party ar
peals to the electorate with the promis
and the ability to make such revision 0
the tariff schedules as shall meet tn
just requirements of manufacture am
trade without sacrifice of the protection
principle, and to provide currency sys
TEN that shall meet both everyday AM
emergent demands, without openin
the door for uncertainty and exper
ment inimical to public credit. Again