Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-09-16
FLEETWOOD A CANDIDATE.

FLEE IWOOO y CANOiOAiE.
It is announced that the Lamoille
county trio OF prospective candidates have
"got together and given F. G. Fleetwood
OF Morristown the right of way in his gov
ernorship ambition. Anyway, Mr.. Fleet
wood last week announced himself = can
didate in this wise:-
SIN response to many and frequent in
quiries from different parts of the state,
take this opportunity to announce that
I shall be a candidate for the nomination
for governor in the year 1910.
"Not cent shall ! spend in this can
vass.
"Without managers and without
money, / appeal openly and squarely to
the people of Vermont.
eff strength is spared me l shall during
the coming months publicly discuss bet
ter roads, better schools, preservation OF
forests, economy in state expenses, and
pure politics vital factors in the pres
emit prosperity and future growth of our
state.''
Mr.. Fleetwood is a lawyer. He has
served three terms as secretary Of state.
He is rather easy-going. Has never had
to worry over clients, practice or any
thing else-in fact, he is past grand mas
ter of the Don't Worry club.
He wears immaculate clothes. He can
do stunts in the wardrobe act that no
other public man in Vermont can APP
proach. He carries a high hat hand
somely. 1t is On record that be appeared
once at a Montpelier function in full
gear when advance notice had been sent
out. "No dress affair
Mr.. Fleetwood has a nice barber. His
face is always clean-shaven. The part in
his raven black hair never varies by q
shows the rebellious inclination or strays
from its proper resting place.
In physique, Mr.. Fleetwood Is slight.
He would never be selected offhand as
center in football line. His head is not
massive. nor his brow OF the " beetIing"
variety. He assiduously cultivates, how
ever, what nature bestowed on him, and
so far as learned this is the most onerous
task he has set for himself.
Mr.. Fleetwood has a smile that won't
come of. He is snable when he ought to
/ be cross. He Is a fEe orator and can un-
wind a spiel that causes the ladies to say.
"What dear ~ Joe DeBoer once re-
marked that "Fleety'' could prepare and
deliver the best extemporaneous speech
he ever heard.
Among Mr.. Fleetwood's other virtues
is his noticeable affection for, and never
falling attention to, his widowed mother.
Mr.. Fleetwood himself is q bachelor.
He is straight haired and honest, clean OF
hand and heart. He won't use money in
this canvass, but be doesn't mean to be
taken literally at his word when he says
he won't spend q cent. That would be an
poets that. What Mr.. Fleetwood means
is that he won't base his canvass on
money and won't use a cent in any way
that any man could criticise.
Mr.. Fleetwood ran for Congress last
year and was so immensely pleased to Sc
cure as many votes as he did in field
where Frank Fish fell down so badly that
be has all kinds of courage and hope
now. II be fails, his smile will work
on. II he succeeds it may even length
en-, though such change would threat
en- to sever the upper part of his head
from the parts below that are depended
upon for locomotion and other menia
services.
Mr.. Fleetwood's secretary made a good
secretary of state As for Mr.. Fleetwood
himself, no demnition grind for him.
He knows better way of getting work
done.
Everybody likes Fred. He is nice.