The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-06-26
BURLINGTON FULL
OF POLITICAL
ELECTRICITY
City Sizzling Under Two Repub-
lican Conventions.
CLAIMS OF CANDIDATES
Aspirants for the eovernorship Are
Coy But Second Place Men
are Confident
CLAIMS OF CANDIDATES

The Burlington Free Press today
published the following:
All day yesterday politics sizzled
and boiled in the torrid heat about
the local hotels in truly pre-conven-
ton style Most of the candidates
We're on hand early and established
headquarters with their lieutenants
at the Hotel Vermont an the Van
Ness House. The candidates for
state offices did not appear until eve
ming, but then worked actively with
the exception of j. A. DeBoer, who
will arrive early this morning.
All three of the congressional can
didates arrived about noon and Col
+. l.. Greene and w. X. Farnsworth
settled along side of each other on
the second floor of the Van Ness
House. Warren r. Austin and
contingent OF supporters established
themselves at the Hotel Vermont
Among the others who arrived later
in the day and who also took up their
headquarters at the Van Ness House
were two candidates for the lieuten-
ant'goyernorship, Frank h. Howe of
Bennington, who Is on the third floor
and NJ. +. Barnes, who is on the sec
ond floor. The gubernatorial caadi.
dates, A. NJ. Fletcher and ]. A. De.
Boer, also have elaborate quarters at
the Van Ness, Mr.. DeBoer in a suite
OF nine rooms and Mr.. Fletcher with
seven rooms. The district committee
is also at this hotel with Il. Il. Brown
candidate for the attorney.general
ship, and several prominent in the af-
fairs of the state, including Secretary
of State Guy Bailey, Attorney Gener-
al j. G. Sargent, Game Commissioner
j. w. Titcomb. State Auditor H. f.
Graham and others F. G.. Archibald
went over to the Hotel Vermont and
Will conduct his fight for the after
neyship from there.
The Free Press gave all the candi-
dates, in cases of contest, an oppor-
tunity to state their claims as to
support but comparatively few OF
them cared to make any statement
for publication. The statement in be-
half of Mr.. DeBoer was as follows:
Complete tabulation impossible at
ly favorable"
4 Mr.. Fletcher did not care to make
any detailed statement for publica-
ton but 1t Is freely stated at the
Fletcher headquarters that about 80
per cent of the delegates will support
him.
Speaker f. f. Howe made the fol.
lowing statement last evening:
Il have made careful canvass of
the situation tonight and find the out
look most favorable and Indications
point to my nomination on the first
! ballot | have assurances that shall
receive votes from every county and
a majority of the votes from more
than half the counties while several
p counties are nearly solid in my sup,
port. II. for any reason, the contest
should 80 to a second ballot | shall
receive a good number OF votes from
delegates who because of county
pride or previous pledge will vote
once for one OF the other candidates d
Max l.. Powell made the followine
b statement: Il have made through my
e friends In the various counties as
B careful a canvass as could and am
] confident that shall be nominated
D | have been very much pleased with
letters that ! have received from all
! parts OF the state and have had unex
i pected support from several local.
+ ties. It is early to give out any fix
n ures by counties II reports from m,
e friends are accurate shall win OF
{ the FIRST ballot"