Supporting a goal of a 100,000 Republican majority for Maine in 1952 to set the trend for a nation-wide Republican victory in this crucial election, and believing that the realization of this goal demands a clear, concise and positive statement of policy,
We, the Young Republicans of Maine, in convention assembled [in Auburn], hereby adopt the following statement of policy:
State:
1—Increased efforts by a Republican administration to encourage and assist industries now operating in the state.
2—Increased efforts by every possible means to attract new industry to the state.
3. — Re-examination of the state sales tax law by the next legislature with special consideration to the possibility of limiting the receipts to taxes actually collected, and a reconsideration of the resale provisions.
4.—Creation of a State Liquor Department under a single administrative head.
5.—Re-examination by the next Legislature of the Fernald Law to determine if any benefits might accrue to the State through repeal.
6—A four-year term of office for governor, with limitation that he may not succeed himself.
7—Annual legislative sessions limited to ten weeks.
8—Endorsement of the proposed so-called “Little Hoover Commission” study of the organization and administration of state government.
9—Re-examination by the senior organization of our party of statutes and customs relating to party structure on state, county and municipal levels with the view of revitalizing these elements into a more effective party organization.
National:
1—Application of principles of general economy to cut down all unnecessary cost of government, working toward a balanced budget.
2—Raising the moral fibre of government through elimination of favoritism and graft.
3—Expression of at least as much concern for the economically depressed and underdeveloped areas of our own Country as is now being shown for similar conditions abroad.
International:
A positive foreign policy that – recognizes our position of inescapable world leadership, our responsibilities to free peoples everywhere, and the interdependence of the United States and other free nations.
Source: Portland Sunday Telegram, March 2, 1952. (Errors in the text may have been made by the newspaper and not the Young Republicans.)