St. Johnsbury Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-1920, 1920-04-07
FULLER SMITH
OPENS CAMPAIGN
ON APRIL FIRST
Outlines Unique Program In
His Contest for High
Office In State

t The Mortified News prints the fol
y lowing in this weeks issue:
i To the Editor of The News:
i an candidate Tor Governor O
=. Vermont and, like ali the rest, wan
:, my platform understood of Ill mel
and | therefore feel impclcd to tel
the people that will promise in re-
, turn for their votes. Now | want (
| be perfectly frank and four Suua"i
-, abou this. | do not want it under
, stood that | guarantee to 90 what
promise | 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 il my bait is just as tooth-oOo
, rs any other kind then | claim Tie
. first bite Of cycrv voter because my
platform is honest to-goodncss-goI-
ness-ogncs and was not borrowed
from the encyclopedias.
|. ! um in favor of good weather
in iaying and lowry weather for FISH
ing.
.. | think well of most Of the ton
commandments. and with certain res
ervations would ratify them; but
would insert the word "bottlc" in
lieu of the word "ass" in the fourth
line Of the tenth commandment, dG"-
ing such. time as the 18th amend
mcnt to the constitution Of the
United States is in force; thus remov-
ing from that stone document any
covert allusion to a certain member
Of the present administration in
,hi0~.on, if uch allEsion was in
tended in the original draft of article
X. / am not sure about this.
3. | believe in a safe and sane
settlement of the labor question. I
don't know what that is, but my mo-
ton is that every man should work
if he has to, and that the matter Of
compensation and hours should be
left to the rest of us to dispute about;
then the man who has to work won't
have to stop except to die. In a word
his whole labor question is summed
up in aphorism: "To He'll with the
Door; the rich can take care of them
selves"
4. l strongly desire the support Of
ali the friends of former Governors
and the State Hou Gang. | bid
seriatim, beginning with our latest
governor and go back as far as | can
remember l want everybody to have
u license to sell alcohol in all It's
forms, and | am distinctly opposed to
any cx-governors being punished for
crime; I am in favor Of an open
treasury, openly arrived at; | insist
upon rough and rugged roads and
then string bean policy Of building
them; one of the greatest needs OF
Vermont is the Flctcherizing Of the
Supreme Court and 4 Bull market IN
Wall street. Anyone who voted foi'
a governor before this has forgotten
why he committed the olfcnsc.
5. l think there should be more
school teachers and better looking
ones, and that the pay should depend
entirely upon the latter qualifications
teach our boys and girls the Shlmr>y
dance and how to wear ovtrShoc'
without buckling them on, and our
mon and women viii! take care or
themselves.
6. l am strongly in favor OF trunE
line highways, either macadam, brick
or cement construction with lateral
lines all over the state so as to serve
all of our people and that these road"
shall be built without bonding or oth-
erwise paying for them; If elected i
will use every effort to get Dr. StoI.
Bates. r. &. B. s., Norwich Unver-
sity '19 to complete the work next
year. ;,
7. earnestly desire the open poll
for women, whether they want 1t CT
not; a box of candy doesn't cost ~
vet. thank God. This will distinctly
bring down the cost Of being Govern
Of.
8. | am firm advocate OF \
League of Notions, especially ior
Vermont; if elected | will appoint
]. Hapgood of Peru General
Manager.
9. | would treat the returned sol
licr. land will do so if he will come
% nv house. 1t is verbotcn che
yhcre.) But | would not forget the
service to humanity rendered by the
various golf clubs, Society of Colonial
DANES and the Loyal Order OF
Moose.
10. | recommend 4 reduction in
he cost Of living and an increase IN
Inc price of everything tn" farmer
produces and the merchant sells.
These checks and balances are I'M
necessary if we arc to keep
he heart of the world from brcakln-.
II. State expenses should be re-
luced and we should appropriate
money I'd build a few more state ar
nories at $4,000 per and have the
,ooks of the auditors Office cXamlh-
ID by two sets of expert accountants
,ne at $1,000 per mot to be used
md one at $500 per for keeps This
will prevent both. petty and grand
arccny if done two or three times IL
ycar The armorics come mighty
handy for basket ball and cotilllon
PARTIES.
u. We should spend more money
Il