The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-27
CANDIDATE STARK
STATES PLATFORM
Favors Better Roads, Better Schools,
Equal Rights for Women, Justice.
for Fellow Soldiers.

To the Voters of Windham County,
Gentlemen: / astryour support, not
as wealthy political boss, but as al
hard working man, and | can say with
sincerity and honesty that in the in
terest of the hard working men and wo-
men in my native state, Vermont, to
me the dearest place on earth, that !
am out for senator on the Republican
ticket If | did not sincerely believe
that the working men of Windham
county did not want a working man as
their choice, / should not have entered
the race. / believe we workers want a
few laws passed for our benefit
Now ] want to inform our diligent
farmers that / am awake to the fact
that we must come to their aid at once.
We must have better roads for rural
districts. roads that will stand up I'M
der heavy loads of produce every day
of the year. The farmers have been
lridiculously neglected; they have had
to bring their vegetables through mud
and mire with half the amount of pro-
lduce they could carry if there were de-
cent roads, causing them extra trips,
DELAY. loss of time and money. We must
lact at once or there II be more aban-
doned farms, and we III starve.
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| for better roads. / believe these main
| trunk lines are n splendid thing for
| Vermonters. and for tourists, for at
Effectiveness and the benefit of the
Estate, but I win not overlook the men
that feed us; they must have good roads
without delay.
I am also for better schools in the
rural districts. We must bring the
schools to the children instead of MAX
ing them plod through the mud and
snow. summer and winter and then wait
Ian hour or more TO be picked up by a
/ team and carted five or six miles over
a rough road Gentlemen, / am strong
llv opposed to that kind of treatment
for our children; we must give them q
far better ehanee for an education, and
/ viii fight to that end if elected.
And now I ann proud to INTERN the
lpeople of VefmoAt that / viii fight with
Ian my might for the equal rights of our
women. The mothers that rock the era
die, the wives that keep our homes. the
sweethearts that make us men, should
stand on an equal partnership as citi-
zens and voters in every state in the
Union. / viii go over the top for the
rights of women. Without their sup
lport we have but. half a nation.
Gentlemen, if you as working men
will unite with me TO make better
Vermont. we win life the yoke of OPP
Ipression from the shoulders of every
lperson in our native state, we will start
tout with the esprit of 70" fearles:
and determined, and we will fight fol
every principle that is honorable ano
fjust: we will do everything in our pow
err for the development and progress
prosperity and happiness of our splen
did state and people.
To my comrades and fellow soldiers
} / viii work for the interest of the de
! Tenders of our homes, / viii fight fol
: the Justice of our crippled and manned
buddies, and support every issue that i
! for the benefit of my comrades, if
: am elected as a senator.
: / wish to thank the kind citizens o.
! this county who have pledged their sup
port to me in this campaign, and if
: am elected ] will do everything in m.
power for the welfare of Vermonters.
Yours very truly,
(signed) MERRILL A. STARK.
Brattleboro, July q,