The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-12-21
Political SIGNS.

| cOHIUS. He SlSHS lOlu lllil-
There are signs in politics.
Shrewd politicians learn to read
them and are credited with wisdom.
The people. intent on their regular
pursuits, overlook them often TO their
loss. What the intelligent reader of
signs saw foreshadowed months, Of
ten years before, comes upon the
people as great surprise.
Ii 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-perhaps a nomina-
ton to some high Office; if we could
read 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 or dis
honorably but skilfully-if we could,
in short, see now spread out before
us. all the events that will lead up to
some important development and see
at the same'time the final result, we
should know how to act. We should
know how to act with regard, not on
" to the big question, but with re-
gard to the minor incidents to which
in all probability we should give no
serious consideration but which
would constitute the threads from
which the final fabric would be WOW
en-.
1t is impossible. actually, to see
the future, but we cam study the
signs. They are not wanting even in
The political situation in Vermont.
The don. Frank c. Williams has an
nounced that he will not be candi-
date for another term as chairman oil
the Republican State Committee,
position which he has filled with sat
isfacuon and skill The most vlgor-
GUS aspirant for the place is Mr..
Earl S. Kinsley of Rutland. Mr..
Kinsley is one of Vermonts viIile
and able young men. AS one OF The
general agents of the National Life
Insurance Company of Montpelier, he
has built up wide acquaintance and
displayed an aptitude for business de-
tails that fit him to be most *
cellent and efficient chairman of the
State committee
Although the Hon Roger Hurl-
burd of Hyde Park has not openly
announced his candidacy there is a
well defined rumor eXtant that he in
tends to shy his castor into the ring
as a candidate for the nomination for
governor. No orator in the State has
spoken more often, more eloquently
or more effectively for the triumpho:
the Republican party than the silver
tongued one from Lamoilie. We can
think of no man who is more whole
somely popular with the party than
he. Mr.. Hurlburd has the winning
manner, the dignifled bearing, the
well-trained mind the varied eX-
perience that has made him one of
the most effective business-getting
general agents the National Life In
surance 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 Pa
vilion Hotel in Montpelier not many
weeks ago and around the table
were gathered the members of the
Legislature of 1908 Ii was a reun-
ion. neighborly and friendly. one
of the speakers was the gentleman
from Rutland who aspires to be chair
man of the Republican State Com
mittee Mr. Kinsley does not pos
sess the oratorical genius of Mr.
Hurlburd and makes no pretensions
to it, But he spoke unusually we'll
He seemed to be letter-perfect and
the sentences flowed from his lips
in well rounded periods. There was
no hesitation. no break in thought,
no cropping for an idea Mr. Kinsley
evidently knew what he wanted to
say and he said il. MIR. kinsleys
little speech was manifestly a stud
led effort leading up to a climax.
And this in substance was the eli
max: 81 feel sure that should Sen
ator Dillingham; decide not TO be
candidate for denomination 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
distinguished president of the Ma
tional 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 atten-
ton of the people. or are they merely
innocent happenings, without any re-
lation one to another? Are they hap
penings that should interest the
seven or eight thousand citizens OF
Vermont and the seventy-fve or
eighty thousand people of the coun-
try who hold policies in the National
Life Insurance Comapy? Are these
incidents signs that Vermonts great
est financial institution is going de-
liberately into politics or is il just a
that three men whose
take them into the thick
est Of the States political activities
should hold such high place in this
particular institution?
II certainly can do no harm for the
people to consider these happenings
in an honest effort to read the politi
cal signs which point TO events in
which the State is profoundly inter |
ested. Indeed II Is their duty to do |
So iontpeliCr Journal
DIR. VIM. Sadler. author Of The