The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-29

national welfare to sectional adVant
ages, have fer long exercised destroy
ing influence in our public and private
life. A reorganization Of public pol
ieies that will correct SEINE Of these
evils can be hoped for only in the re-
stora Ton of the Republican party to
the control of the government. But
the final redemption of the people
from the abnormal and unhealthy con
dition of mind and estate into which l
they have fallen rests mainly in the
universal adoption and observance Of
the motto: Less talk, more work
we recommend legislation author
Iizing national budget The appropri I
alton Of public money haphazardly, |
without unity of purpose or co-ordina
ton, has resulted in great waste, UNI
due extravaganza and burdensome
taxation. The sacrifice of the public
shall not endure forever
! I'VE welcome the women OF the
country to8our ranks as voters, in full
faith that the political character of
the electorate will be improved and
elevated when the female citizens
shall have attained unabridged priyi
leges of suffrage in state and nation.
Republicans are not ungrateful.
The gratitude of the nation to its sol
diers and sailors has always been eX-
emplified in liberal legislation and by
the pladits of the people. The govern
ment should speedily and generously
provide for its soldiers and sailors
who are in any way disabled by
wounds or disease contracted in the
discharge of their military or naval
duty. But policy that recognizes
military or naval service by cash
bonus system is open to widely diver
gent opinions. The Congress should
approach this question with grave de-
liberation and should reach its con-
clusicns unmoved by political stress
$ The ultimate good to the ex-service
. men themselves, the common welfare
of the country in its present financial
condition and the influence Of the
precedent of such policy on the char
acter of national patriotism. \ should
be determining factors as to the adop
4 titn Of such policy.
Il We denlopes the, autocraHc conduct
Of the president in negotiating the
. treaty OF Versailles without reference
l. to American sentiment, and without
r representation of American Ideals OF
duty and justice embodied therein
We recognize the duty Of our country
: toward the maintepagce oflworld.widt
e peace and liberty; but we condemn
& the league of nations as incorporate
Ia in the peace treaty because II imposes
upon the United States the duty to Ell
y gage in war in foreign lands, as a ma
y ter of international obligation. indie
-e pendent of the national sense of RICH
Ia and at the dictates of power othe
In than our own government. We favo
a. the adoption of said treaty with sucl
at reservations as shall completely sc
re cure American rights and liberties
III We favor the proposed defensive ALI
y. ance for the protection of Franc
)yl agairlJ. aggression.
es THE Republican party has beer
I'd and is, the best exponent of govern
al ment OF the pebble. be the 'peofiR! an
CT sr the people. Its record has bee
ex tnmmGndahl Notwithstanding OF the cont
dence of the public. 1t has been loys
Sc 20 the welfare of the country Its pri
en- cfpies are The principles OF the con
of mon people, who believe in the con
nd pon goodA Freud Of " recoFd, Snl
q! dent Of ia A6Hps.Re @tnisny Rat
&C the citizenry, who are tired OF the il
ed competency and wasteful 'extraV,
EN- Sance of the Democratic adnRnisiri
MS tion to ally themselves with the r.
publican party, thus assisting in. tn
re. feSlofatttfna 8f,a safe, sane, economic;
he Government CT the people, by the Ile
at Ale, and for the people.
Great responsibility rests uponCQ
cs delegates to the Republican nation;
er convention. II now seems. almost. fol-
lei ordained that the next president
nd the United States shall come fro
hel tbs Rnpn hlieaa~ paFty..--Only a~maiey
nd lent destiny wrought and shaped |
Die PRIDE al opinion. by narrowness of p
he litical HiSon, or by the frenzy of di
nd appointed ambition that sometm,
be stultifies the manhood of men, ca
he endanger the political redemption
ar the country. The chaotic and di
to tressful state of mankind in mar
ity lands the gravity of social, petite
air and economic conditions the wor
over, are clarion calls to thought
hen to awaken from their dreams
,as safety and security and to bring for
ng leadership Of men tina. will gil
H. hope and promise CT continued civ
raj cation"
ne The platform was reported to Il
tic convention by Chairman w. II. Fai
ote child of Fairchild and it was adoptt
raj without a dissautino vnica