The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-27
FULLER SMITHS PLATFORM
Announces His Candidacy for the
Governorship.

due notoriety and to keep the matter
as quiet as possible he sent his plat
form to the Mortified News. 1t is as
follows:
To the Editor of the News
81 am O candidate for Governor
of Vermont and, like all the rest |
want my platform understood of all
linen and | therefore feel impelled TO
tell the people that l will promise in
return for their votes. Now | want to
be perfectly frank and four square
about this. | do not want it under
stood that | guarantee to do what |
ipromise | am in favor OF, any more
than the rest of the candidates. But
what | promise shows my competence
and ingenuity in angling for support,
and if\my bait is just as toothsome as
Iany other kind then / claim the first
bite of every voter because my plat
form is Observation-Disclosures
Agnes and was not borrowed from the
encyclopedia.
u am in favor Of good weather
in haylng and lowry weather for fish
ing.
20. | think well of most Of the ten
commandments, and with certain res
ervations would ratify them; but
would insert the word bottle" in lieu
of the word Ass i'll the fourth line
of the tenth commandment, during
such time as the eighteenth amend
ment to the constitution Of the United
States is in force; thus removing from
THAT priceless stone document any CO.
lyert allusion to a certain member of
! .he present administration in wash
lington, il such allusion was intended
in the original draft of article tenth.
h am not sure about this.
8. / believe in a safe and sane set
Element OF the labor question. | don't
know what that is, but nay notion is
| that every man should work if he has
to. and that the matter Of compensa-
ltion and hours should be left TO the
rest of us to dispute about! then the
Imam who has to work won't have TO
stop except to die. In word, this
whole labor question is summed up in
1.-The aphorism ITO He'll with the poor;
HE rich can take care OF themselves.
! 4. | strongly desire the support OF
IAN tho friends of former Governors
land the State House Gang. ! bid SER
latin, beginning with our latest Gov
lernor and go back as fer as | can re-
member. | want everybody to have
license to sell alcohol in all its forms,
and am distinctly opposed to any ex-
governors being punished for crime; |
lam in favor OF an open treasury, open
Fly arrived at; | insist on rough and
rugged roads and the string bean pol
icy of building them; one Of the great
lest needs of Vermont is the Fletcher
lzing OF the Supreme Court and 4 Bull
market in Wall street. Anyone who
voted for a governor before this has
forgotten why he committed the of
Fence e.-,.v gaige.sr BID
% think there SHOULD be more
l8chool teachers and better looking
ones, and that the pay should depend
ENTIRELY on the latter qualification;
teach our boys and girls the Shimmy
dance and how to wear over-shoes
without buckling them on, and our
men and women will take care of
| themselves.
IS | am strongly in favor of trunk
4 line highways either OF macadam,
brick or cement construction with lat
eral lines all over the State so as to
serve all Of our people and that these
roads shall be built without bonding
or o herwise paying for them; if
elected will use every effort to get
Dr.. Stod Bates. B. h. 3. s., Nor
wich University 19) 30 complete the
work next year.
=. I earnestly desire the open poll
Cor women, whether they want il or
not. box of candy doesn't coss $500
yet, thank God This will distinctly
bring down the cost of being Cover
nor
IS. am firm advocate of Leagu~
Of Notions, especially for Vermont;
liz elected | will appoint Marshall J.
Hapgood OF Peru General Manager.
80. / would treat the returned sol
der, (and will do so ii he viii come
to my home. II is verboten else.
where.) But / would not forget the
service to humanity rendered by the
various golf clubs, Society of Colonial
DANES and the Loyal Order OF Moose.
40. | recommend a reduction in the
cost of living and an increase in the
price of everything that the farmer
produces and the merchant sells.
These checks and balances are inn
peratiyely necessary if we are to keep
the heart OF the world from breaking
ii State expenses should be re-
duced and we should appropriate mon
ey to build a few more State armories
at $4,000 per and have the books of
,he auditors office examined by two
sets of expert accountants, one at
$11 900 per mot to be used) and one
at $500 per for keeps. This will pre-
vent both petty and grand larceny if
done two or three times year The
armories come mighty handy for bas-
ket ball and cotillion parties.
"12. We should pend more money
for the education of the idiotic and
feeble minded children of the State
and not so much for those who are
sound in body and mind and might
make useful citizens of the State. In
these forward looking days the State
needs a really good breakfast food in
stead of sanity or constructive citi-
zenship.
"13. The party's demand for more
commissions and Offices should be in !
stantly needed. The existence of only