Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-08-17

cutive acts:
Prosecution and conviction of those
implicated in the sugar frauds against
the federal government and other vi
olaters of the Federal statutes prompt
and successful intervention to prevent
arbitrary increases in railroad freight
rates effective enforcement of the law
against illegal dealing in stocks in
dictment of those involved in cotton
pools formed to raise the price of one
of the necessities of life in every
American family; impartial enforce
ment. of antitrust laws. substantial re-
duction in government expenses, saw
ing million dollars a month in the
postoffice department with fair prom
Use of wiping out the annual postal
deficit: such remarkable progress in
the construction of the Panama Canal
as insures it's early completion with
/ drawal from private entry in order to
preserve for the public benefit valuable
| coal and other mineral deposits, timber
lands and water power sites of over
seventy-two million acres of the pub
| lie domain. The administration has
strengthened our prestige with foreign
nations and has treated with vigor and
| wisdom important and delicate inter-
national questions. Such is the record
| y
| of the American government in any
period so short.
The republican platform upon which
the present campaign is being conduct
ed has outlined party policy with great
precision. Upon the tariff issue it de-
mands continued recognition of the
protective principles with such an
amendment of schedules as shall be
| best adapted to the demands of vary
ing conditions of trade and economics
and with administration of them upon
| business principles, rather than upon
partisan exigencies. The platform fur
Their commits the party to needed
| amendents to our state constitution to
simple and effective primary election
procedure to the best administration
of our tax laws that can be had t.
legislation involving better protec-
ton for the working man by means of
an employers liability law and a ten
dollar exemption law; to undated
effort directed to the Improvement of
| highways; to aggressive advancement
of public education and stimulation of
the study of elementary agriculture,
manual training and domestic science
in the public schools; watchful, un-
compromising and effective conserva-
| tion of all our natural resources and to
| vigorous enforcement of all laws de-
| signed to promote temperance and So
| briefly.
The nominees for various Offices at
the hands of the republican party in
| Vermont are representatives of the
states best citizenship. All possess
the ability and the experience to give
the state, as state officials, such SER
vice as the progressive tone of the
platform and progressive republican
ism of the hour demand.
The Hon. John A. Mead of Rutland,
candidate for governor, whose long
and successful business experience
qualities him in an eminent degree to
direct the business affairs of the state
government, pledges himself to give
his best efforts to maintain the excel
lent conditions which the various de-
| partments of the state government
now eXemplify, and to still further
develop and perfect the effectiveness
of these departments as their best
usefulness under the side of progress
may demand. The Hon. Leighton P.
Slack Of ST. Johnsbury, nominee for
| lieutenant governor, possesses every
qualification for the office named and
so, too, is the case with the nominees
for treasurer, secretary of state,
| auditor of accounts and attorney
| general, all of whom are present in
cumbents with most congratulatory
| records.
| At this time it is exceedingly graft
| flying that republicans of Vermont
may Look with pride upon the business
conditions of the state. Under the d.
rection of trained business men in the
executive Office. Governor Fletcher D.
Proctor in the recent past and George
/ H. Prouty of the present, and by vir-
| tue of recent wise legislation bearing
upon the states administrative affairs,
all departments of the state govern
| ment are in a higher state of effect
| iveness than ever before. Financial
| ly, Notwithstanding larger expenses
than formerly, the balance in the
treasury is in excess of all previous
| records. The income of the state and
it's collection by the state tax commits
sioner is on more certain basis than
previously and perfected system in
the auditors Office allows no careless
ness in the expenditure of this income.
| All of the state institutions, includ-
ing the state prison, the house of cor
rection. the industrial school and the
| hospital for the insane, show the
SAINT CoHSldIuldCOIy COIIulIlOnS from
| the business standpoint Never did
= the republican party of Vermont pos
sess better reasons or greater assets
in argument for continuing dominant
| in state affairs than at the present
! time.
Therefore, the republican state
committee of Vermont, appeals to the
| electorate of Vermont, to party veter-
! ans and to young men who will vote in
September for the first time alike in
its laudable endeavor TO make the Re-
publican majority in Vermont, in the
coming election, something that will
speak emphatically to the country in
endorsement of republican principles
athome and wherever they are in
volved throughout the nation.
Republican State Committee.
| Rutland VT Auoust ION