The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-23
THESTATEPLATFORM.
Republican Principles Out
lined by Committee ON
Resolutions
PRESIDENT TAFT INDORSED
Tariff Should Be Taken Out of Poll
tics-COnstitutiOnal Changes Fa-
vOred-PrOgressiye Labor Legisla-
ton and Caucus Reform Favored.

ucS-JOnSutuClOnal CnangeS fa-
vOred-PrOgressiye Labor Legisla-
ton and Caucus Reform Favored.
Following is the full text of the
platform to be presented to the Re-
publican State Convention as pre-
pared by the Resolutions Committee
designated by the Republican State
Committees:
We, the Republicans of Vermont, by
our representatives and delegates in
State Convention assembled, do most
heartily renew our allegiance to the
primary principles and tenets of the
only political organization that has
been successful in the government of
the Nation from the days when the
party sprang into being with patriotic
vision and statesmaaship to save a
nation to be governed by all. Even as
Vermonters were pioneers in the es-
Enlistment of the Republican party
] IRE than half century ago at a
IT, g when it took the courage of con-
W. ions to advocate it's new doctrines
aud purpos IS, so they have ever since
been and are today the consistent
advocates of party policy that will
rise to the new duties of all new oc-
casions with the soper-minded ambi
tion of men whose discretion only
makes for the better choice for pro-
gress and not for faltering or doubt,
delay and do-nothing. We believe
that if the Republican party of today,
is to conduct the government of the
Nation tomorrow, it must not cease
to take account of the awakened and
reinvigorated aspiration of the peo-
pie for the realization of higher ideals
OF civic righteousness, business hon
esty, equality of economic opportu
nifty, and political freedom, and we
unhesitatingly declare ourselves in
sympathy with unceasing progress
along the lines blazed by the patriotic
leadership of Theodore Roosevelt and
followed by his illustrious successor
in the Presidency, William Howard
Taft. We are proud to express our
hearty sympathy with the high pur-
poses and admiration of the devoted
labors of President Taft in his con-
duct of the nationaI government.
The Tariff.
We desire to emphasize Our belief
that the time has come when the
adjustment of tariff schedules should
be taken out of politics. The reven-
ue act of this great government
should no longer be subjected to the
caprice of local or sectional interests
eral revision by Congress but its
schedules should be amended detail
by detail from time to time under the
suggestion and counsel of a nom
partisan tariff board or commission
whose function it should be to pro-
mote the constant adaptation of this
statute to the demands of varying
conditions of trade and economics af-
ter the methods OF simple business
prudence and national common sense.
Reciprocity.
We favor such reciprocal tariff re-
lations with the Dominion of Canada
as will the more actively stimulate
the Interchange of profitable trade
between the two countries upon a ba-
sis fair to both and sufficiently pro-
tective of the interests of our own
people.
National Department of Public Health
We commend the proposed creation