News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1912-12-25
Political Signs
(Montpelier Journal)

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The mariner studies the weather. The
clouds, the light, the wind makes signs
to him which, from long observation, he
understands. He reads the signs and sets
his course accordingly. When the storm
breaks he is prepared to meet 1t. He
knew 1T was coming. The signs told him.
There are signs in politics. Shrewd
politicians learn to read them and are
credited with wisdom. The people, ir-
tent ON their regular pursuits, overlook
them often to their loss. What the in
telligent reader of signs saw foreshadowed
months, often years before, comes upon
the people as great surprise.
If we could look into the future one,
two, three, four years and see how the
little happenings of today-little things
apparently, hardly worth our notice
combine with other things to lead up to
some important political result-perhap
a nomination to some high office; if we
could rea3 the ambition of this man and
that man and see how the desire of one
was used to influence the acts of another
not illegitimately and dshonorably, but
sklIfully-if we could, in short, see now
/ sp,ead ont before us, all the events that
will lead up to some important develop
ment and see at the same time the final
result, we should know how to act. We
should know how to act with regard, not
only to the big question, but with regard
to the minor incidents to which in all
probability we should give no serious con-
sideration but which would constitute the
thu eads from which the final fabric would
be woven.
1t is impossible actually to see the fu-
ture. but we can study the signs. They
are not wanting even in the political stu
alton in Vermont. The Hon. Frank G
Williams has announced that he will not
be candidate for another term as chair
man of the Repu blican State Committe, a
position which he has filled with salts
fiction and skill. The most vigorous as
plrant for the place is Mr. Earl 5. K'nsley
of Rutland. MIR. Kinsley is Que of Vel
mpnt's virile and able young men. AS one
of the general agents OF the National Life
Insurance Company of Montpelier, he
has built up a wide acquaintance and dis
played an aptitude for business details
that fit him 10 be a most excellent and
llicient chairman of the State committee.
no UJ ,,f
Hyde Park has not openly announced his
candidacy there is well-defined rumor
extant that he intends to shy his castor
into the ring as a candidate for the nomi-
nation for governor. No orator in the
state has spoken more often, more elo-
quently or more effectively for the tri-
umph of the Republican party than the
silver-tongued one from Lamoille. We
can think of no man who is more whole
somely popular with the party than he.
Mr.. Hulburd has the winning manner,
the dignified bearing, the well-trained
mind the varied experience that has made
him one OF the most effective business
getting generalaagents the National Life |
Insurance Company has in all the length |
and breadth of the state. The Hon. |
Roger would make an excellent governor.
There was a banquet at the Pavilion |
Hotel in Montpelier not many weeks ago |
and around the table were gathered the |
members of the Legislature of 1908. 1t |
was reunion, neighborly and friendly. |
One of the speakers was the gentleman
from Rutland who aspires to be chairman
of the Republican state Committee. Mr..
kinsley does not possess the oratoNcal
genius of Mr.. Hurlburd and makes no
pretensions to 4. But he spoke unusual
ly well. He st, ned to be letteT-perfect
and the sentenc, flowed from his lips in
well rounded periods. There was no hest
talon. DO break in thought, no cropping
for an idea. Mr.. Kinsley evidently knew
what he wanted to say and he said IT, Mr.
Kinsley's little speech was manifesty a
studied effort leading up TO climax. And
this in substance was the climax: Il feel
sure that should Senator Dillingham; de-
cue not TO be q CanuludCe IOF TenOmlud-
ton we all here would join in an effort to
place the Hon. Joseph A. DeBoer in the
United States Senate"
The Hon. Joseph A. DeBoer is the dis
Linguished president of the National Life
Insurance Company of Montpelier. And
the Hon. Joseph A. DeBOer was one of
those who sat about the banquet table.
Now the question is, are those incidents
signs that should engage the serious at
Lention of the people, OF are they merely
happenings, without any rela-
ton one to another? Are they happen
ings that should interest the seven or
eight thousand citizens of Vermont and
the seventy. five or eighty thousand peo-
Pile of the country who hold policies in
the National Life Insurance Company?
Are these incidents signs thai Vermonts
greatest financial institution is going de-
liberately into politics or is it just CO.
incidence that three men whose ambi'
tons take them into the thickest OF the
States political activities should hold
such high place in this particular institu-