The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-07-25
BENNINGTON VT, JULY 25, 1917
THE NEWEST STATE TICKET

possibly be prejudiced, but will TT!
to look at the matter dispassionately
and without feeling.
AS to the selection of candidates
| for electors there can be no criticism
They certainly had the right to take
hand in the national canvass and i
is a duty to stand by ones honest
principles in pursuit of the ideals Of
popular government
1t is also a duty to use discrimina
ton and judgment in all things anc
to look deeper than the label ii
studying the recipes and theories Of
popular government, and there Is
where, it seems to The Banner thai
the new party has failed in present
ing a new state ticket.
We have in Vermont some very
real and live issues and if we are
good citizens we wish to see those
Vermont issues kept to the front and
not obscured by national questions,
no matter how important these ma
tional questions may be at their
proper time in November.
After forty years of stagnation, due
entirely to excessive emigration to
the west, during which forty years
more than half of our Vermont towns
have decreased in population and many
in prosperity, the state has at last
succeeded in stemming the tide and
started again on the upward grade.
To climb that grade Vermont has de-
veloped a few remarkably competent
men.
One of these men is State Highway
Commissioner c. w. Gates Without
a burden of direct tax, without bond
ing the state or mourning a dollar OF
debt Vermont is now making more
in road building than any
other state During the past three
years Vermont has achieved three
times as much advance in road i'm
provement as our sister state of New
Hampshire in spite of the fact that
New Hampshire has bonded for a
million dollars. Working and voting
against the Republican candidate for
governor is working and voting
against Mr.. Gates and road building
progress in Vermont.
In Secretary of State Guy w.
Bailey Vermont has developed an Of
fetal who is doing a great service
for the state. Receiving no salary
for the work Mr.. Bailey has under
taken the exploitation of the re-
sources and advantages and oppor-
of Vermont and his work is
every day bearing fruit and adding to
the prosperity and progress OF the
Green Mountain state. Yet an or
ganization calling itself progress
sive" is seeking to defeat Mr.. Bailey
on a national issue that has no direct
bearing in vermont's state election in
During the past few years Vermont
has been going ahead and been en-
abled to do many creditable things
because the state income has been
increasing without direct state tax
alton. Upwards of seventy danger
Gus grade crossings have been elimi-
mated, over 100000 per year is de-
voted to road building, our state in
stitutions have been enlarged and
a home for deficient chill
dren is being erected, Vermont is
doing three times more for education.
direct from the state treasury, than
any other state of its size Yer
mont has been able to do these and
other things. partially at least.
the vigilance and efficiency
Of J. f. Cushman who collects the
taxes from which the
state derives its income. A vote
against the state ticket is vote
against Mr.. Cushman, who is APP
pointed by the governor. If another
party should win its candidate would
name one of his own supporters.
These are only a few instances.
there are scores OF others, but space
forbids the consideration of all. Is
it progressive" to turn against the
very best things we have in Vermont
and the agencies that are doing the
most for the state, because OF ma
tional issue which by no stretch of
the Imagination exists in connection
with the state campaign2
When il comes to the platform.
too the situation is the same. We
need to consider the needs OF Yer.
mont-the change in the tax system
TO aid the man who borrows and TO
help those who wish to engage in
OF even to own a.
home; We want still further extern
sion Of road building; the welfare OF
the children Of INDECENT and unfor-
tunate parents is a most important
matter; the state must give more at
tentiOn to the small towns which
are decreasing in population and
wealth; our penal system must be
improved in the light Of modern
methods; the cause OF education in
sparsely settled rural districts must