Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-09-20

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1912.
THE VERMONT ELECTION.


from the Bennington Banner:
1t needs no double barrelled, two
column editorial to tell the readers of
this paper the result of the election last
week in this State. They know and
they know also what caused the revo-
luton.
Both State and national policies fig
ured in that result.
Long continued rule by one party, in
which a nomination had become equiv
alent to an election, had bred discon-
tent among the voters, who felt that
they had little voice in the affairs of
State or nation.
Party leaders had manipulated eau
cuses and conventions and parcelled
out the offices for years in advance and
all that was expected of the people was
to ratify, without question, those nom
nations.
1t was inevitable that time would
come when the people would rise in
their might and reassert their right to
rule.
That is exactly what has happened.
Good men, men that the State cannot
afford to lose; men whose services are
needed and whose record is such as to
entitle them to continuance in office,
have gone down with others whom the
people believed were not worthy the
high places to which they aspired.
The Legislature will choose the State
officers for the coming two years from
the Governor down.
Looking over the list of Senators and
Representatives elected we feel sure
that they will act for the best interests
of the whole State regardless of party.
More important than all this is the
stand that a majority will take in favor
of progressive Legislation.
The election in a broad way signifies
the determination of the people to have
certain things done; certain measures
enacted into law, certain obsolete laws
repealed and others that are manfestly
unjust and against the best interests of
the people replaced by those that are
for the good of the common people and
the whole State.
We believe an honest attempt will be
made TO abolish the present iniqutous
system of double taxation.
We belive that Labor will be given a
square deal and the ten dollar exemp-
ton law will be passed.
We believe that there will be more
progressive legislation for the farmers,
the greatest industry in Vermont. and
the only one that has not grown and
kept pace with the progress of the
State.
Vermont will take her place with pro-
gressive sister States in advertising
the opportunities the State offers to
those seeking cheap, productive farms
near good neighbors, schools and
churches.
No State offers greater inducement
to those seeking homes and who are
willing to work to win.
Whole farms with comfortable build
ings thereon can be bought in Vermont,
on the most liberal terms, for less than
ten acres of unimproved land can be
had in the great Canadian northwest,
twenty to fifty miles from a railroad.
This is because the desirable class of
settlers do not know it.
They read the alluring advertisements
put out by the Canadian government,
the railroads, boards of trade, ETC., re-
garding that far away country, but
nothing about Vermont with its fertile
farms that can be bought for half what
they are worth.
The work Secretary of State Guy w.
Bailey has done with meager $4,000
has demonstrated that great results
can be secured along these lines if the
Legislature will give him a tenth part
of the money to advertise Vermont that
single province in Canada spends
every wear