The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-05-11
Former Governor
Is Found Dead
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Stafford said:
an our courts we want the
simplest forms of procedure con-
sistent with the preservation of
legal rights, the speediest trials
that fairness can permit, the
promptest decision, provided only
and always that they be well
weighed. We hope to put an end
to frivolous appe@iS and to the
granting of new TRIALS where the
result was right before. We mean
to make it possible for the poorest
sutton to have his cause tried by
competent counsel, even if the
State must provide in such cases
a public prosecutor; and we mean
to make it impossible for the rich
est litigant to tire his adversary
out and rob him bv delay"
Governor Fletcher opposed the
lobbyists and the special interests.
He favored laws that required
the railroads and other corpora
lions to pay larger share of the
state taxes.
He thought he discerned mono
pOlistic efforts by the greater tele-
phone people and looked into it.
He established the office Of state
purchasing agent, by which, it is
said, the state is saved about $780,
coo biennially.
He favored the particular kind
of schooling that would endear a
child to his own community.
He acted to give the Public Ser
vice Commissioner more power.
He insisted that the party plat
form pledges be carried out and
that the people be given an oppor-
tunity to try out the direct primary
He favored factory inspection,
the regulation Of the hours in a
days work, and the providing of
safe and sanitary placed for the
men and the women who work in
Nermont's industrial establish
ments, a thing very much needed !
He favored revision of the State
constitution, development of our
water powers, and further aid for
agriculture and forestry.
Mr. Fletcher befrends the farm
ers. In his retiring message he gave
these facts and suggestions:
THE present appropriation for
the department OF agriculture is
wholly insufficient for the work,
and entirely out of proportion to
the appropriation for other de
partments of the state government.
1t should be materially increased.
Authority should be given the
commissioner of agriculture to
Make and enforce such regulations
as may be necessary to protect the
state from invasion of insect life
and plant disease, to enforce rea-
sor.JIe and sanitary regulations,
and to control the standard of
agriculture without funds eS-
tablish bureau in Boston or New
York through which our farmers
without middlemen can reach their
market.
How can the commissioner of
agriculture help the farmer by
bringing immigrant labor into the
state, unless the state furnish HIM
with means to establish a bureau
for that pulpose?'
They are trying now, Mr.. Fetch
err says, to unmake some of the
laws placed on the stature BOOKS
while he was governor.
His friends sag he has been
greatly misrepresented.
Certain it is that Mr.. Fletcher
has q warm heart below the ex-
terror so many acquire in wrestling
leadership in the strife of a great
city. He is most agreeable man
to meet, as a citizen, and in public
general of consumate ability. His
most marked characteristic is his
courage in doing what he believes
to be light. once his mind is made
up, regardless of either his friends
or his enemies.