Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1916-09-08
FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,
Mlddlebury Citizens Issue Strong
Statement for Judge Weeks.

"A statement w ldNOI VI tlt NHHHlN"N|
of Judge John +, Weeks for Lieutenant
Governor over the signatures of Messrs
T. NJ. Chapman, Willis N, Cady, and
Allan Calhoun, has appeared in the
State papers this week, The state
ment is as follows;
"The claims of John +, Weeks upon
the Republican nomination for Lieuten'
ant Governor of Vermont rest upon his
character as a man, his experience as
legislator his fidelity and usefulness as
a State official, and his proved ability
as business man and as presiding
officer.
Judge Weeks has spent his life in
Addison County, an active farmer and
business man, and no man in Vermont
stands higher in the respect of his
neighbors for uprightness and strength
of character. He is the kind Of man
people trust and to whom they go for
counsel. Those who know him best are
his warmest admirers. He is natural
leader, has long been active in public
affairs, and his record in every position
of trustha been clean and honorable.
Judge Weeks would come to the
Lieutenant Govemorship straight from
a successful experience as presiding Of
ficer Of the lower House, having been
Speaker in 1915, 1t is generally agreed
that he made one of the best speakers
Vermont has ever had Fair and square
toward ALL never carried away by
partisanship, not undertaking to die
tate, he commanded the respect and
affection of his Neutrality-suspicious. to an
unusual degree. AS member Of the
last two legislatures and State officer
for the past ten years he is thoroughly
informed on the business of the State,
and is in position to render Invaluable
service in the coming session,
Judge Weeks chicfinterest in life is
not in his private affairs, NORM political
promotion, but in the unfortunate
citizens of our State in our penal insti-
tutions, especially the boys and girls
in the Industrial School. For eighteen
years he has been a trustee of that
school, and since the organization Of the
Penal Board under the late Fletcher d.
Proctor in 1906 he has been its chair
man. Under his leadership the Indus
trial School has been rebuilt, not only in
buildings, but also in spirit and charac-
ter 1t is no longer place of punish
ment, but a real school where boys and
girls who have been neglected and
abused are given chance and become
worthy and useful citizens, Judge
Weeks knows those children by name,
and they know him and honor and love
him. He has spent time and money for
their welfare, and the high rank which
the Industrial School has attained and
it stands as one of the best in the
United States-is due largely to his
efforts
Judge Weeks is farmer. He owns
today the farm on which he was born,
and makes it pay. He is a business
man, one Of the most successful in the
State. He is the friend of workingmen,
not in words on the stump but in every
day relations with them and in votes as
legislator. He is representative of
the plain, honest people Of Vermont,
man they can trust and count on every
time. He is man of ability as a
leader, as his record proves. He is the
sort of man Vermont will do well to put
forward. Entanged by no alliances
with any candidate for any other office,
if chosen Northumberland he will
discharge the duties Of the office with
no other purpose than to do his utmost
for the good of Vermont.
addison County, which has had only
one Governor or Lleutenant-G Governor
for forty-four years, presents John E.
Weeks for the second place on the
Republican ticket with confidence that
no better candidate could be chosen.
"On your primary ballot September
18th, under Lieutenant Governor, put
cross opposite the name of John E.
Weeks "
T. M. CHAPMAN.
WILLIS n. CADY.
ALLAN CALHOUN