Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1908-01-17
POLITICS IN VERMONT
Popular Sentiment Resents At
tempt to Deliver State to Sec
rotary Taft-PersonaI Opinions.
iEermont Cor. Boston Globe)

trmOnt tOr. BOSTON blOUt)
Securing William II. Taft, secretary
OF war 10 deliver an address in Burling-
ton, Vt, before the Sons OF the American
Rev olution and the Vermont branch of
the American National Red Cross on a
date to he fixed in next March is con-
sidered ty many in the Green Mountain
State as IA movement to launch a boom
for Taft for President.
There has been for weeks considera-
bic discussion going on in the papers OF
the Stale relative to presidential candi-
dates. This discussion really began on
the afternoon of September G, the date
of the annual meeting and banquet OF
the Vermont Fish and Game League, held
at Bluff Point, N. Y, when Charles f.
Hughes, Governor OF New York. deliver
ed an address that won the instant favor
of the 600 Vermonters present.
Nearly every Vermont newspaper was
represented in that gathering, and from
that time, with but one or two excep-
tions, the publishers of the State have
been vociug Hughes for the presidency.
ask dozen people in different walks
OF life their preference OF the men men,
tioned for presidential candidates and 10
OF them will answer Hnghes," is the
way one prominent Vermonter defines
the situation. 81 have Travelled the State
over, been in every county and in many
of the towns of each county since last
September" said this man to Globe
representative, "and | find the tide run
ming strongly in favor of Hughes"
Since the visit to Secretary Taft in
BOSTON by Eermonters representing the
two societies before whom he is to
speak in March the claim has been put
forth that back of his invitation is a
movement to deliver the eight Vermont
delegates TO Taft aud that the men who
will be chosen delegates to the Chicago
convention have already been selected.
III this situation is true then the State
convention will be but cut and dried
affair.
An enthusiastic Hughes man, YER
monter now holding high state Office
expressed himself ON this situation very
strongly. He said -
1--WE have had State conventions in
Vermont to select delegates to national
republican conventions when it was a
we'll established fact that promises had
been made that the delegates would be
chosen in the interest of particular
candidate, but the conventions tailed to
live up to these promises.
I've Vermonters are used to political
dictation and we stand up and stoical-
ly take our medicine up to a given
point and then the echo of our bolt is
heard the country over. | do not say
that Taft delegates will not be chosen
at the convention next June, but do
know that if they are chosen it will not
be the easy task some people imagine.
"The State press comes pretty near
voicing the sentiments of the people, and
the fact that great majority of the
papers have put forth Hughes for then
presidential candidate shows conclusive
ly how the people stand. have been told
that for weeks almost in every mail
literature from the Taft headquarters
has reached the publishers and few
instances are there where it has been re-
ceived with favor and been published.
II also know that there has been no
effort on the part of Hughes admirers