The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-07
SENATOR DANIELS
ANSWERS CRITICS
Favors Investigation of Irregularities
in State Expenses, Advocate of
National Prohibition.

Editor of The Reformer:-
While none of my friends have felt
t necessary to ask me how ! stand on
various questions, well knowing that |
will if elected vote for the best inter
'sts of my constituents and as desired
ny them, | take this opportunity of
'tating in your paper my position.
If elected state senator | will work
COR the best interests of the state, al
ways having in mind the effect that
pending legislation may have upon the
interests of the people in Windham coun-
". OF course. i, as well as every 9TH
or patriotic Vermonter. will work for
rs short a session of the legislature as
ean be had consistently with war and
state needs.
| have been questioned through your
columns by one of my opponents as to
how ] stand in reference to an investi-
cation of the present governors finan-
cial Irregularities while auditor of ac-
counts. Such an interrogatory is puer-
lie. OF course every red -blooded Yer
monter wants and will demand most
careful investigation of those irregulari-
ties and such action taken thereon as
the case may warrant. /, as well as
every other citizen, will ask the next
legislature to pass laws which will
make impossible. as far as laws can.
any transportation or overdraft by
anyone having control of the state s
money. | believe in an examination of
the books of the auditor of accounts
and, if necessary, of the state treasurer
by proper persons or certified public
accountants if need be, who have no
interest in state politics.
| am also asked by the same oppon-
ent, if, after learning of the governor s
Irregularities, / did not advocate his
reelection and if / did not during the
last legislature vote as he babe me.
| After | learned of those irregularities
| never advocated or favored his re-
election, in any way, shape or manner
| During the last legislature numerous
public measures were presented for en-
actment and everyone that | voted for
was enacted by large majorities in both
| houses, except one measure, and that
one passed the house by almost unani-
nous vote and was killed in the sen.
ate where a lot of good measures die;
and ! cast my vote in favor of those
measures unsolicited by anyone | be
lieved them to be for the best interests
of the state and therefore supported
them.
I, as we'll as over nine tenths of al
the other Republican candidates foi
nomination for state senator through
out the state, am in favor of the rati
/ fication of the national prohibition
amendment, which cannot take effec
until at least SO states ratify it. j
will then be the will of the majority o.
the people and will make the nation
what we have in the past made Wind
ham county. ANY action which tn,
next legislature may take in referene,
to this amendment has nothing whatso
ever to do with our present local option
Jaw and cannot affect ii in any shap
or manner until 36 states have ratifet
the proposed amendment to the Unite,
States constitution.
This opponent of mine asks if a Ger
tain attorney in Brattlehoro is not pro
noting my campaign. The only at
fQrney in Brattlcboro whose support
have solicited is the Hon. James NJ
Tyler, ex-chief Justice of the suprem
| Couit OF efHloHt, VINO very Slaul
signed my petition and who. l believe
viii support me at the polls next Tues
day.
The design of these interrogatories
not desire for information but is fo
the sole purpose of raising uniustifie
doubts in the minds of the people VIII
do not know me as to my characte
: integrity, ability, etc, and thereby il
! fluence people to vote for Mr.. Tenne,
| have not heretofore taken an
& space in any newspaper to assist m
: candidacy, but have subscribed for
Z full page in the Reformer for the pm
! pose of advertising the coming Fourt
3 Liberty loan, which | believe is MOI
. patriotic than to use newspaper spac
E for the purpose of critieising my OF
] ponents or what they stand for.