The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-06-15
STANTON SAYS He
DIDN'T G0T0SEE
"CHET' Writer'S
Washington County Candidate
Makes Flat Denial.
ALL CHARGES ARE FALSE
u Not Favorable to Corporations and
II Elected Governor VIII En-.
force the Laws.

Hon. Zed. s. Stanton of Roxbury
has Issued the following statement in
answer to some OF the charges of his
opponent, Charles II. Prouty of New.
port, in the struggle for the governor.
ship:
The letters and editorials in various
Prouty newspapers attempting to
make me appear the tool or candidate
OF the railroads have not the slightest
basis In fact. An editorial In the
Enosburg Standard, reprinted In the
st. Adams Messenger, says that ut
Is asserted on what is believed to be
good authority that a conference was
held In the Office OF the Central Yer
mont Railroad Company In St AL
bans at which were present Mr.. STAN
ton and the attorneys and lieutenants
OF the Central in the county" The
statement is unqualifiedly false in
whole and In every particular. A let
ter printed in the Burlington Free
Press In It's issue of June 9Th and
signed Fair Play by innuendo and
lndlrect attack makes assertion that
nave conferred with Mr.. Writer'S at
Isl. Adams and attacks my honesty and
fairness. All the assertions and insin-
uatlons In that letter are wholly and
entirely untrue. Not only are the rep-
Presentations as to my attitude false,
nut so FAR as | am aware there Is no
sentiment whatever in the state fav.
oraDle TO the repeal or weakening OF
The valuable corporation laws now on
the statute books. so that the argu-
ment is based on two false assump-
lions. one that there Is a movement
to repeal existing corporation laws and
the other that am allied with such
movement.
have said before and now repeat
that | am In full accord with the poll
Icies OF reform and the regulation OF
corporate interests that are already
lestablished by law in Vermont. and II
elected to the office of governor
shall be jealous in my efforts to con.
tinue and make permanent these pol
icies. II individuals connected with
corporations advocate my nomination
they do so with full and complete
knowledge that | am entirely indepen-
dent of any influence that would urge
a backward step in legislation calcu-
lated to relieve them OF just obligat.
ions to the state at the expense of the
people.
My opponent has resorted to a meth.
cd of campaigning heretofore un.
known in republican politics In Yer
mont,-that of paying for advertising
space IN the newspapers I'm the at.
tempt to have the material which he
sends out from Newport appear I'M
der the misleading guise Of communi-
cations from bona fide correspondents
or as editorial matter. | could not II
would, and | would not II I could,
adopt the same method, even IL I knew
IT would give me the nomination. II
Mr.. Prouty sees fit to buy and use ad-
vertising space in the newspapers of
the state to further his own candidacy
by displaying articles prepared under
his direction calculated to create false
Impressions as to my standing on pub
lie questions and printed In such form
as to deceive the reader as to their
authorship, / would under no consid-
GRAFTON compete with him In that kind
of a canvass, believing that such de-
vices would be more properly employ
ed In the sale of patent medicines and
breakfast foods.
have no machine to back me; am
still without alliances. l cannot be-
lieve that public opinion In this state
can be successfully manufactured by
such unfair and deceptive methods, for
in my opinion the voters will discover
and condemn them. Mr.. Prouty has
the wherewithal to conduct this kind
of a campaign and may employ his
money to this end II he sees fit but the
people of Vermont will decide whether
the governorship is the proper sub.
ject OF promotion by such means.