Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-24
Vermont First.

Mr.. Editor:
equal suffragists. Vermont was the
first state in the Union to adopt
universal manhood suffrage. Why
not the first New England state to
bestow presidential suffrage upon its
women? Apart from the simple fact
of justice to women as human beings
and as citizens of the state who must
obey her laws, is there a specific rea-
son for Vermont's granting this
privilege to her women during the
coming session of the legislature?
Yes, emphatically. Vermont is
republican state and the rule now
governing the National Republican
Convention provides that the repre-
| upon the number of republican votes
last preceding election. How will
this affect Vermont republican men?
After this manner. In the states
where women vote preponderance
of power will be given to them, and
Vermont republican men stand a de-
cided chance of being governed by
western women. In short, unless
Vermont women are given the pres
idential ballot, the women of a west
ern state could outvote the state of
Vermont in a national election.
Ponder this, and also the following
fact. Forty per cent. of the entire
vote of the state was cast in Illinois
by women. If Vermont women voted
with the percentage, and they would
no doubt, see how it would increase
the republican representation from
Vermont. Regard this, you repub-
lican men who are in Montpelier.
You will be outvoted in your own
party by western women unless you
give your women presidential suf-
frage.
BUT from a strictly non-partisan
| viewpoint, which is the attitude con-
WINGED suffragists prefer to adopt, it
| is not just that some women should
| be allowed to vote and not all women.
| The new York Herald remarked
editorially after the recent election in
| this: cit is little short of national
scandal that women should be allowed
| to vote in some states and not in
others; that the election of a president
| and national administration should
be committed into the hands of wom-
en- voters in one state or group of
states when women of other states
are denied the voting privilege?"
| That increasingly more women in
Vermont desire this privilege is evil
| dent from the recent successful eff
forts of Mrs. Augusta G.. Hughston,
! organizer, to whose call the women
have responded heartily, for many of
them who were heretofore passive, if
not negatively opposed, have been
aroused to positive action. Your
women are asking for this bit of
constructive legislation to be passed
this year. AS legislators you have
the right to grant it to us. There
fore, in view of all the above facts
will you give us presidential suf-
| frage,
| Anne Hawks Putnam.
Bennington, Vt.
There is every prospect that a
mammoth hotel, catering especially to
summer guests and tourists, will
soon be erected in Randolph. It will
represent an investment of more than
million dollars. The structure,
according to architects plans already
adopted, will be much larger and more
| elegant than any hotel in Vermont,
ranking easily with the best of those
in the White Mountains and other
| famous resorts. In elegance of de-
sign and completeness of appointment
| it will embody everything that is
modern and luxurious. 1t is an
| nounced that the capital required for
construction is already enlisted. The
program is to begin construction as
soon as the ground opens in the spring
and push the buildings to completion
| within one year, ready for the sum-
mer season Of 1918.
A. E. Chandler, the architects and
the nager-to-be, will all be invest
ors in the enterprise. A. E. Chandler,
who resides in Randolph now but who
spent "a years in the telegraph and
banking business in New York city,
| will be president of both the building
and leasing companies. Mrs. A. E.
Chandler will supervise in the selec-
ton of interior furnishings and dec
GRAFTON, which will insure comfort and
good taste