Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-10-17
EXPLAINING THE HUGHES BOOM
IN VERMONT.


are stil discussing the Hughes boom
in Vermont, thereby admitting that
there lis such an influence in motion
in the Green Mountain state and also
probably adding to It's growth. SO far
a the FREE PRESS is concerned we
have not been sitting UP nights wor-
rying over the identity of the next
presidential candidate of the republic
cans. In the first place the party mas
SO many strong and wholly available
men that no mistake is likely to be
made, and, in the second place, who
constrained, II elected, by one Of the
most practical declarations of prin-
ciples the PARTY ever formulated and
will be compelled to hew to the line.
The people want safe as well as pro-
excessively conservative chief execu.
tive, and the people are insisting as
never before that their wishes be car
ricd out, be the venicle Roosevelt,
Hughes, Taft or some other strong
public man.
The FREE PRESS has expressed ad-
mirntion for Governor Hughes in COM
mon with a host of Vermontcrs who
heard him speak at Bluff Point, and
in expressing that admiration we said
he was enthusiastically checred by
many who were undoubtedly for other
candidates but he unqucstionably cap
that occasion. In commenting on the
matter in connection with recent de
velopments in connection with the
State fair the St Adams Messenger
called attention to the fact that Mr..
Evarts, who Is also president of the
Vermont Fish and Game League, spoke
in part as follows:
1--WE want to hear from a man who
instead of busting trusts, will reg
ulate them We are anxious to hear
from q man who can toll us how trus Is
and individuals can be regulated with
out shaking to its foundation our
present prosperity" AT tho
Bluff Point dinner ne did what has
never been done by a speaker before
on one of these occasions, to the Mes
senEers knowledge. introduced poll
ties into his remarks. And the un-
mistakabIe animus of those remarks
was that Roosevelt and Rooseveltism
IT,
csts of the country.
mfr Evarts launched a Hughes
boom there based squarely and un-
oquivocally upon his anti Roosevelt
platform.
The Montpelier Journal in comment
ing on the Messengers statement says:
The Journal conceives that Mr..
Evarts is cminently capable of speak
ing for himself and would not relish
any attempt of this paper to become
his champion. But does the State be
lieve. as so delicately stated by the
contemporary, that Mr., Evants launch
ed the Hughes boom in Vermont?
Granting that he used the language
quoted. ne did not speak for Vermont
nor for the league of which he is the
president. And the hearers received
his remarks. as far as they touched
the anti-Rooscvelt phase. in courteous
silence--in sharp contrast to the con-
temporary above quoted.
The man that launched the Hughes
boom in Vermont was Hughes and he
did il in spite of tho possible handi
cap Of the Evarts Introduction. And
Vermont believes in Hughes because
nc is as strong as Roosevelt. as indie
pendent as Cannon, as shrewd as
Knox, as calm as Fairbanks, rs en-
orgetic as Cortclyou. as broad as Taft
and, wthal, absolutely incorruptiblt
where public duty or private integrity
is concerned.
And the force that is boomn 2
Hughes in Vermont is not EVarts. nor
any one man. It's the stubborn and
unshakable belief of the people tlat
a man who can be just as we'll as up
right, serene as well as implacablc
courteous as well as stcadfast, strong
as well as scrupulous, is the man who
next to Roosevelt, they wish to sec
President
And the conviction is growing every
day.
| It should be stated that he did MOI
| rise to the fly so deftly cast by Pres
| iden Maxwell Evarts and indulge II
| political napdoodle for or against cor
porations, or Roosevcltism. He sim
| ply made the patriotic speech which
former Governor John W Stewar
| said should be printed in form so |
could be read by every school boy il
| Vermont