The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
AbRAM ". FOOTE
CANDIDATE FOR
SECOND PLACE
Well-Known Cornwall Man Out
for Lieut.. Governorship
WOULD CUT STATE TAXES
Believes Federal Aid and Automobile
Fund Will Take Care of High.
way Improvements

Middlebury, March 9.-Abram w.
Foote of Cornwall has announced his
candidacy for the office Of lieutenant
governor. Mr.. Foote has issued the
following letter:
/ shall be candidate for the Office
of Lieutenant as a Republi-
can in the Primaries to be held in the
coming September. | appeal direct
ly to each and all of my friends for
their support.
In times of unrest like the present,
the conserving influence is NE
American home. | would encourage
every young man, especially the re-
turning soldiers, to own home, eth
er farm or village home.
If nominated and elected, l viii do
all in my power to reduce the present
heavy State tax rate, increased from
cents on the dollar to 40 cents. By
this, do not mean, that | would cur
ment for the good of all the people of
Vermont, including road improve
ment, but would insist that every dol
lar raised by taxation be honestly and
carefully expended, and that the state
receive full value for every dollar.
With the added income from Fed
eral Aid and the great increase in
money available from the automobile
and autotruck licenses, the roads can
be improved without a burdensome
tax for this purpose.
A. W. Foote.
Abram w. Foote was born in Corn
wall, Vermont, October Gath, 1862.
Has always lived there and owns and
occupies the farm located by his an
cestors when the town was settled.
In 1883 he married Kate Dodge
Nichols of Bridport: They have eight
children, six of whom are married.
He has held nearly all the town Of
fees, including justice of the peace
for ~ years, and represented the
town in the state legislature in 1900
and again in 1915, the. only citizen
thus honored in the last so years; al
so assistant Judge of Addison County
court from 1902 to 1906.
Mr.. Foote organized the Cornwall
lCitplOllt Ill lOJO anu lIlG.
Rutland County Telephone company
in 1903, two of the few telephone
companies that give long distance
connections and charge the subscrib-
ers only SIS per year for service.
AS member of the Legislature of
1915, he was elected secretary of the
farmers club and chairman of the
Addison county organization, a mem
ber of the committee on appropria-
tions, and as chairman of the commit
tee on agriculture was influential in
passing bills to enlarge the work of
the commission of agriculture, includ-
ing the establishment of a market
agent and the passage of the Stand
ard Apple Package law.
Judge Foote'S special work was the
passage OF the cooperative fire insur-
ance law. Repeated efforts along
this line had in one way or another
failed to pass at previous sessions.
Under this law, Mr.. Foote organized
the Patrons Cooperative Fire Insur-
ance company January IA, 1915, and
for the past four years has saved it's
patrons one-half on their assessments
This law is available not only for
Changers, but for all classes of fire
insurance. Under it cooperative fire
insurance companies of all classes
can be organized.
Judge Foote was Senator from Ad-
Olson county 1917 to 1919, and was
elected floor member of the commit
tee charged with naming the Senate
committees, and served on the judici-
ary committee and committee on Re
vision of the Statutes.
During the war, Senator Foote
served on the committee of Public
Safety, in the district of Middlebury,
and Food Administrator for Corn
wall; also had charge of the several
Liberty loan drives.
In 1918 he was appointed Federal
Land Bank appraiser for Vermont
and in that capacity for the
last two years has assisted many, in
cluding a number of ex-service men,
to secure home of their own.