'Vermont Republicanism' Advocated

In an election year, Vermont can claim distinction as a state which will cast its vote for the Republican nominee, regardless of who he may be.

What Vermont Republicanism stands for is another question, according to Ernest W. Gibson, governor of the Green Mountain State, who came to Cambridge yesterday to speak to the Young Republican Club.

Governor Gibson didn't make any predictions, but he called for federal aid to state and local governments for health and education, and he backed President Truman's message of three days ago, urging adoption of U.M.T., Selective Service, and the Marshall Plan.

"But the President doesn't go far enough," the governor said. "We can't do business with Russia, either diplomatically, through the United Nations, or by commercial trade. The sooner we recognize this fact and break off relations with police states, the better."

What the Republican Party needs, the governor said, is the "kind of Republicanism of independent straight thinking" which Republican Vermont represents.

He believes that the people of his state continue to practice the best democracy in the United States. Although it is classified as a one-party state, Vermont, according to the governor, has both liberal and conservative factions in local politics.

Calls Self Liberal

He represents himself as a liberal and is seeking re-election on his program of supporting, among other things, the State Farm Bureau's demands for a state power authority, consolidation of rural schools, and development of cooperatives.

The governor of Vermont admitted that there was a substantial group of supporters of Henry Wallace in Vermont who are "all good people--not Communists."