The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-27
Patients Into Paying Some Attention to Ordinary Rules
6 come for something new. /"

To-day proiiteering Is in the necessi-
! ties of life is going on at rate never
witnessed before in this or any other
country"
"The basic principles Of our gov
erment are as sound as the Ten Com
mandments or the Lords Prayer and
they are as fundamental and commoR
| place. We must get back to gov1
ernment under the constitution"
Theodore Roosevelt stood for gov
ermnent under the constitution" he
declared More team work between
the executive and congress he urged.
I'VE do not want one man power.
We do not want one department of
our government dominating another.
We want men possessed of the in
stinctive tendencies of Lincoln and
/ Roosevelt"
Speaking of war expenditures he
said, I'VE spent it with both hands,
shoveled it overheard, at cost of 26
million dollars, 10 millions loaned
abroad. He orged rehabilitation Of
the expensive army of civilian en-
|ployes hired during the war"
Gen. Wood urged adoption of q
budget system" and believed every
cabinet officer ought to have the right
Iof appearing on the floor of congress-
and defending the estimates OF his
department.
I'VE must stop tearing down busi-
ness declared the speaker, "and the
idle talk against big business. No
business is too big to be encouraged
If it is good business, and no business
is 700 small to be regulated il it is
bad business"
We want to establish a sound for
leign commercial policy. We never
have had one. The time had come
now for us to formulate a policy for
spreading our trade abroad, and we
must do it intelligently. AS a first
step we want sound and efficient
consular corps. We do not want our
consular service used as dumping
ground for political workers.
Our military policy will depend
very largely en- our foreign policy
Our foreign policy is not aggressive; :;
consequently our military and naval
establishments do not need TO be the
largest in the world We do not want
q large army. We want a small but
highly efficient one. / can see no rea-
son for an army OF $4,000 men.
which would cost us a billion year.
Then we must have a coed navy al.
ways ready.
AS people. we are anxious to
have definite action with reference to
the treaty and the League of Nations.
For myself, | think we should ap.
prove the League with reservations
to which thoroughly Americanize it,
reservations which will leave Ameri
ca absolutely free to follow her tradi
titnal policies to control without in.
terierence her own internal affairs.
He urged more attention to agri
culture, better pay for teachers. i'm.
provement in the rural schools and
more attention to immigrants and in
closing said:
Now is the time TO get together
Our read lies ahead; not behind. We
are through with the fighting in this
war but there are many problems in
front OF us; problems of readiust
ment which follow every great war
There is nothing of politics in them
, They are straight problems of sound
government and of an efficient and
i, economical administration any OF
them are difficult but they are net pal
tcularly serious if we will meet them
: in the same spirit of cooperation with
,, which We meet the problems of this
war"
il. was plain sailing down through
, the list of nominations for delegations
. until the seventh was reached wher
the names of Fuller C. Smith of ST
Adams and Miles S. Sawyer of Rut
land were placed in nomination.
Fuller Smith was elected seventh
delegate 322 to 275.
The alternates elected without Cd
position were as follows:
: Alexander Cooper of Bennington
: &. w. Campbell of Lyndon, j. Wat
son Webb of Shelburne, Clarence c
Wells of Middlebury, Linn D. Taylor
OF Braatleboro. Il, L. Olney of Rut
!. land, T. F. O'Rouke CT Derby and w
E. Tracy of Johnson,
The election Of delegates began al
!" H2;l5 O'Clock. No adjournment was
l. taken for dinner, the convention worl
. ing through in solid session. Wher
; Gen Wood finished his address a
: neon three-quarters of the crowd il
e the gallery left the hall.
Gen. wood went by motor to Well
! River, where he boarded the Bostor
= train and will reach Boston tonigh
for conference with Massachusetts
: New Hampshire and Rhode IslanC
: supporters. 1t was emphasized dur
y ! ing all the speeches made during The
convention that Vermont delegate
: would be solid for Wood The conver
adjourned at LAO o'clock.