The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-07-09

assailable, held in esteem and conf |
dence by their friends, their neigh
bors, by all who know them. Neither
Of them has any radical inclinations.
/ is the best augury for the future
CT this nation that there is no faint
Of radlealism in either platform. No
whether he be engaged in
big business or in small business,
whether he be toiler for wages or
a man following a profession need
fear that in the coming four years the
foundations OF credit viii be disturb
ed by White House policies or that
men engaged in lawful pursuits viii
be moleated. That Is comforting But
there is, nevertheless, very great
difference between the two candi-
dates, difference in their antece-
dents, in their environment Cover
nor Cox would never be called a re-
dictionary That impptation has al
ready boz made against the other
candidate. His nomination resulted
from operations Of the Sona.or.al
cabal at Chicago; II IS known that he
was the choice of the elements that
are most dominating and reactonary
in the Republican Party There is
very great probability that, should he
be elected, the party would revert to
its old habits, to that general Bour.
bon attitude toward public questions
which it exhibited in tlIs-Administra-
ton Of President Taft. a much ADLER
man than Senator Harding; to that
state of mind which looked upon the
comfortable days of high tariffs and
special privileges as the true golden
age and upon suggestions of advance
and change as abominable; to thar
political philosophy and practice
which, in short, put it in the power
of Colonel Roosevelt to break up his
party.
Very different will be the outlook
iii Governor Cox becomes President
/ He Is no champion Of privilege any
more than he IS an apostle of revolu.
ton He is man OF affairs, Of
soundest common sense and good
Judgment. In time of peace he would
/ do away with war taxes and, like
Mr. Tilden, substitute for them reve.
inueS sufficient for the expenditures
of Government. economically admin.
istered. He would rembve the ex-
cess profits lax, which burdens busi-
mss and adds to the household bills
of every home in the country, and re-
place it by a light TAX ION the vol
iume OF business of going concerns, "
which has been estimated to yield
2OOO,O0OOO0 a year, He would re-
peal Inheritance taxes, since the pro-
cess of transferring property from
lone generation to another is safe
guarded by the State, not by the
Federal Government, He would do
what is possible to make farming
more attractive, to counterac the un.
healthy tendency of youth every
where to seek the cities, of labor to
covet factory employment. His mind
surveys the whole national field and
he would take counsel with the wis.
est how and where Government eff
cheney could be best promoted. He
has made an enemy OF no class, for
hb is aenntional man; ne GENES natn
rally and ddseryedly to the rank of a
Inadohal figure Witch such candi
date upon platform which even Re
publicans have found to be in many
ways souRdaapd athnTable. q decIara
tion Of Rrinciples 5o8which no Demo
ctai. fcan takf eYqandon, and having
passed through the dTes Of, conYen
ton, strife wbhfph bitterness or last
= ing resentment the Democrats, Il
they viii make. the campaign in The
7 spirit IN, which hey started il, ma,
be dnusuaiig 6ofddeht Of victory
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