News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-04-01
tine NON-PARrISAN CREED
Republicans, Democrats and
Progressives Speaking From
the Same Platform. Ad-
dresses Before the Non-par-
tisan Prouty Club at Ran
dOlph.

dOlph.
| The Non-partisan Prouty Clubs of Yer
mont find their ideal IN the club recently
| organized at Randolph. The call for the
| the town committee of each of the three
great parties. The officers of the club
| are all earnest partisans who for the time
being have laid aside their partisanship.
Patriotism has taken the place of pref
udice. At the first rally held by the club
| addresses were made from the same
restroom by the author of the last Repub-
lican party platform, by the last Progress
sive candidate for Governor, by an enthu-
siastic Democratic educator and by a
representative of the Prouty Club of
! Orleans. The following reports of the
addresses is quoted from the Randolph
Herald and News:-
Editor L. B. Johnson was the first
speaker and represented the Republican
party in this Non-partisan Movement,
| which reminded him of the gladstone
| time of prophecy when the lion and the
men shall beat their swords into plow-
shares and their spears into pruning
hooks. No one questions but that Mr..
Prouty has been the live wire OF the In
terstate Commerce Commission. He has
been a corrective and constructive agency.
not only tearing down things that needed
tearing down, but building up what
needed building up. He has been active
in securing just and equitable laws, in
recommending legislation for the common
welfare of the country, and he is the
originator of the policy to have a special
commission appointed to regulate the
great trade corporations of the country
ut is true that all of, or nearly all. are
partisans, and that we accept men on our
ticket because they are on our ticket.
whereas were we not party bound we
would not accept them. The abolition
of slavery and the tariff issue divided our
fathers with sharp lines of cleavage. The
lines are not so clearly defined now. The
great questions of today are not party
questions and before we want RepubIi-
cans, Democrats or Progressives we want
men of capacity, of courage and charac-
ter, of honest records, plus ability. Such
man is c. A. Prouty.''
"PriD. E. G. Ham. lthe Democratic
speaker, declared himself to be a be-
lever in party government. Nevertheless
there are times when everything that has
to do with party or partisanship must be
put in the background. There are times
when things come up which have very
little to do with party. There are men
who are bigger than parties. No one
thinks of Abraham Lincoln as being a
partisan. He was first and foremost an
Americana man bigger than any party
could ever be-"
I'VE are hearing a good deal about
bigger, better and buster Vermont. New
movements are inaugerated and as a re.
suit of the recent amendment to the
U. S. Constitution there reEts upon us
the responsibility of choosing by direct
vote OF the people Senator to represent
us at Washington. To date more than
ever before We ought to be alert and ac-
/ tive IN the matter; for il is up tn US 20
/ send the best and strongest man with 'ut
/ regard to party. The ablest man in Vet
mont today is undoubtedly c. A. RrOuty.
In the next few years we as a Nation will