The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-09-07
POLITICAL ADVERTISING. :
For Lieut.. Governor

The claims of John f. Weeks upon
the Republican nomination for Lieu
tenant Governor of Vermont rest upon
his character as man, his experience
as a legislator, his fidelity and useful
ness as State official, and his proved
ability as a business man and as a pre-
siding 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 a
natural leader, has long been active in
public affairs, and his record in every
position of trust has been clean and
honorable.
Judge Weeks would come to the Lieu
tenant -Governorship straight from a
successful experience as presiding of
iicer 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 par
tisanship, not undertaking to dictate,
he commanded the respect and affection
of his fellow Legislators to an unusual
degree. As a 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 chief interest in life is
not in his private affairs, nor in polit-
cal promotions, 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
ID. Proctor in 1906 he has been its chair
man. Under his leadership the Indus
trial School has been rebuilt, not only
i'll buildings, but also in spirit and
character. 1t is no longer a place of
punishment, but real school where
boys and girls who have been neglected
and abused are given chance and be-
| come 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
| -andgit stands rs one of the best in The
United States Sis due largely to hissefY
| forts.
| JudgesWeeks is a farmer He. owns
today the farm on which he was born,
| and makes it pay. He is d business
man, one of the most successful in Che
| State. He is the friend of workinglEen, ,
not in words on the stump, but in every
day relations with them and in votes as
a legislator. He is representative of
! the plain, honest people of Vermont, a
man they can trust and count on every
time. He is man Of ability as lead
err, as his record proves. He is the sort
of man Vermont will do well to put
| forward. Entangled by no alliances with
any candidate for any other office, if
| chosen Lieutenant Governor he will dis
charge 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 OF. Lieutenant Governor
for forty-four years, presents John E.
Weeks for the second place on the Re-
publican ticket with confidence that no
better candidate could be chosen.
On your primary ballot September
18th, under Lieutenant Governor, put
a cross opposite the name of John E.
! Weeks.
T. M. CHAPMAN,
WILLIS n. CADY,
ALLAN CALHOUN.
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