Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-08-19


In state conventIon--support Of Can.
dldates Urged.
The Republican state committee out
| lines the issues OF the coming campaign
and Its claim for support in the following
address to voters:
Republicans Of Vermont
Your delegates, assembled in state con-
vention, have sounded the keynote OF
the Republicansm Of the hour in the fol-
| lowing trenchant terms:
We believe that II the Republican party
| of today Is to conduct the government
| OF the nation tomorrow, IL must not
| cease to take account OF the awakened
and reinvigorated aspiration Of the people
| for the realization Of their ideals Of civic
| righteousness business honesty, equality
| OF economic opportunity and political
freedom, and we unhesitatingly declare
| ourselves in sympathy with unceasing
progress along lines blazed by the pa
| triotic leadership of William Mckinley,
| Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard
| Taft
The Republican party. which has been
| unvaryingly dominant in Vermont during
four-and-flfty years, has this remark
| able record: 1t has been politically sim
! cere; 1t has presented no candidates Of
| prejudice or class, no propaganda Of ne
| CATION, no scheme OF reputation, nor any
| doctrine OF destruction or despair 1t has
| been optimistic and never pessimistic
| II has believed in evolution of steady
| and unequivocal progress 1t has been,
| and still Is, the training school Of states
| men. It's policies have all been forged in
| the furnace fires OF public discussion
| tempered by calm delibera ton and shaped
| in the conflict Of the best minds, and
| tried and found true in embattling for
| the country's welfare The roster OF its
| leaders has been the roll Of honor OF the
history Of half a century.
Influence Of Vermont's Election.
! In the light of this history, which can
| not be gainsaid by one "jot or title"
and in the further light OF the declara
| ton made In your state convention as
| above quoted, ii would seem that the wei
| fare Of state and nation is stil INSOFAR
able from the continuance of Republican
| policies in governmental control; there
| fore. all voters OF Vermont whether Of
past afHlation with the Republican party
| or not, are urged to take personal
| interest and to practice earnest activity to
| the end that Rcpublicanism as above de-
| fined, shall find In the result Of the Sep
| TENDER election in our beloved state en-
| dorsement by a majority Of meaninglv
! proportions. The candidate Of Vermont
| Republicans for the governorship, the
| Hon. John A. Mead Of Rutland. in his ad-
| dress accepting the nomination, httingly
| said:
"As the standard bearer Of Republican
| ism in Vermont. / take this early oppor-
tunity to remind Vermont Republicans
| through You as their delegates that I'M
| less all signs are misleading, Republican
| ism In the nation is perhaps facing the
| greatest trial Of its history. The issues
| that were responsible for the foundation
| or Republcanism are all passed. During
the half century or more. that has pass
| ed since the organization OF the Republi-
| can party. great and remarkable changes
| have taken place in our nation Our
| population has increase by about sixty
| millions, or to about three times what
| II was In 1856, and much Of that increase
! is made up OF elements slow to be assimi-
| lated. Social conditions have changed
| radically in all the centres Of popula-
| ton. and. in short. everywhere through
| out our land The scale OF living with
| everybody is far different from what II
used to be. Elements Of unrest have al
ways been with us. but never before were
they so menacing as they are today
Let us remember that the Vermont cleo
ton stin comes two months before the
general election throughout the country.
and that Vermonts barometer whatever
II may he worth, Is quite as much n
needed influence In the coming Septem-
Der as II ever has been in the history Of
the Republican party. II our election
next September shall result In large
Republican majority, such as we NAV
reasonably hope for. It will serve notice
upon our sister states that Vermont is
still true still loyal to Republican prln-
ciples.'"
Administrators Record.
Notwithstanding disturbing signs in the
nation a large. there is no question in
volving the effective work upon progress
sive lines accomplished in the present
Congress, nor can any just criticism
attach itself to the motives and integrity
OF the national administration under the |
presidency OF William Howard Taft BY
means OF effective cooperation OF the ad- |
ministration and Congress, accomplish |
ment perhaps has never been equaled in |
any similar period OF two years since the |
Civil war. This accomplishment on pro-
gressive lines involves the following most |
important measures or executive acts:
Prosecution and conviction OF those |
implicated in the sugar frauds against |
the government and other violaters OF |
the federal statutes; prompt and success |
full intervention to prevent arbitrary in |
creases in railroad freight rates: effective |
enforcement OF the law against Illegal |
dealings in stocks; indictment OF those In |
volved in cotton pools formed to raise |
the price of one of the necessities OF |
life in every American family; impartial |
enforcement of antitrust laws; substan- |
tial reduction in government expenses;
saving a million dollars a month in the |
post office department with a fair promise |
of wiping out the annual postal deficit; |
such remarkable progress in the construc-
tion of the Panama canal as insures Its |
early completion withdrawal from pri-
vate entry in order to preserve for the |
public benefit valuable coal and other
mineral deposits, timber lands and water
mower sites NJ Over 70 mn mn crae ~ ha