The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-10-24
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Is NOMINEES SLOGAN

Montpelier, Oct gil ne nominees
for state Offices on the Republican
tickle, have issued statement OF prin-
ciples. in lieu of party platform,
which includes the following funda-
mental propositions:
/. A sound business administration
| for Vermont.
2. Every resource Of State and ma
ton 70 be dedicated TO winning the
war;
3. No peace without victory:
4. Business principles in national
affairs;
S. Return to their righdul owners
after the war Of all public utilities
Communicated by the federal govern
ment;
G. Brief, business session Of Legis-
lature;
7. State pay for all Vermont sol
diers and sailors in the service Of the
nation;
s. Return Of the rural school to the
rural community, better teachers and
better schools;
8. Trunkline highways for Yer
mont, with federal aid, and better back
roads for farmers;
10. Deeper waterways for Vermont
lake ports.
The statement of the nominees in
full is as follows;
The prevailing epidemic has pre-
vented the Republican party of Yer
mont from holding its convention;
consequently no Republican party
platform could be legally adopted.
We deem is no improperly on our
part, even if it be not In sense
duty owed to the electorate, to make
statement of certain principles and
policies favored by us, and, as we fully
believe, by the party whose candidates
we are:
LIST. We believe that Vermont
should be given a~thorough business
administration, and we pledge our
selves, individually and collectively, to
continue the wise and effective plan of
supervision and control in force for
the last two years, with such amend
ments or additions as will honestly
and efficiently conserve the peoples
money so as to give value received for
every dollar collected from the tax
payer, and provide every safeguard in
the departments of purchasing, dis
tributing and accounting, that the
affairs Of the state may be conducted
on sound business principles.
| I'd. In national affairs we stand for
/ the most vigorous and energetic prose-
cution Of the war of which this nation
4 is capable, and we call upon our ma
1 tional officers to invoke to that end the
utmost resources Of this country in
men, money, munitions, food, ships,
guns and aircraft, so that the loss IN
American lives shall be reduced to the
utmost minimum consistent with final
and decisive victory.
We recognize and commend the pat
riotic and effective manner in which
Vermont has met all demands and
emergencies in connection with the
successful prosecution of the present
war, and we pledge ourselves to main
tain, so far as in our power, the record
which has been established.
Sd. We declare ourselves utterly
opposed to peace without victory, and
urge upon the President and Congress
a firm refusal to treat with our enc
mics or the enemies of our allies upon
any other basis but military deci-
sion which shall make the world o safe
place for all people, for the business OF
all nations engaged upon their lawful
occupations and for the citizens of all
countries and >nationalities who may
travel the high seas.
Business Principles in National Affairs
4th. We insist upon the same bust
ness principles in conducting the at
fairs of the nation as the Individual
employs in conducting his own, and we
denounce extravaganza in high places
just as we denounce the prostitution OF
war agencies to the ends of partisan
politics, and insist that favoritism,
nepotism and paternalism shall be
abolished as factors in all activities OF
the war.
5th. We stand for proper return
to their rightful owners after the war
Of all public utilities now comman-
deered by the federal government, and
insist that the government in Wash
ington shall by its own example set
stndard in careful conservation and
efficiency that shall be divorced from
politics and based upon merit rather
than expediency and partisan advan-
tage.
9th. We advocate the briefest ses-