The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-02
SENATOR DIXON IS
ON HIS WAY TO
VERMONT
Roosevelt Manager Says His
Candidate Won the State
TAFT PEOPLE DESPERATE
Chairman Gibson Confident That Sec
ond District Convention viii Be
for Roosevelt

Oyster Bay, Apr Col. Roosevelt
mapped out yesterday with Senator
Dixon of Montana, his manager, the
campaign which he is to make this
week on his tour of the South. Sen
ator Dixon spent a few hours at Oy-
ster Bay, N. Y, going from New YORK
ON his way to Vermont After leay'
inc Sycamore Hill he said that Col
Roosevelt would make some big
speeches" on the trip upon which he
viii start today. The principal
speeches are to be delivered in Louis
Vile. KY, whittier the colonel goes
at the request of Edward =. O'Rear
head of the Kentucky campaign and
in Parkersburg, w, Va, in response
to an appeal from Gov Glasscock
The senator said Col. Roosevelt would
take up subjects which he has not
touched hitherto in the campaign and
that they would be phrased In a Wig
orous manner.
Col Roosevelts next trip following
that to the South will be to Pittsburg
Pa. where he will speak on Monday
or Tuesday OF next week On the fol
lowing night he will speak in Philadel
phia. Within a short time after the
Pittsburg trip the colonel will go to
Boston and Concord, N. IL. Later he
will 20 10 Maryland.
Senator Dixon said the campaign
was proceeding in a way that was
most satisfactory to him. In the
northern states he said ga delegates
wore instructed for Roosevelt and &c
for Taft. AS for the southern states
he predicted that in the most OF the
cases where there are to be contest
ing delegates to the Chicago conven-
ton the Roosevelt delegates would
win. He asserted that majority OF
the national committee would side
with Roosevelt
Dixon's statement concerning Yer
mont says. I'VE have won Vermont
by fair means and we do not pro
pose to have the state stolen from us
nor have the tactics practiced there
that we're practiced in Indiana and
New York city. We are going to see
that there is no more political bur
glary. The Roosevelt leaders in Yer
mont report that they have carried
the state, but that the Taft people
are desperate and will stop at moth
ing. 1t is about time that the Amer.
lean people awoke to the realization
of the despicabe methods that are be-
ing pursued TO get control OF the ma
tional convention"
The Vermont delegation to the re-
publican national convention was
claimed yesterday by both the TAFT
and Roosevelt leaders. After a Sun
day canvass Of the result OF the eau
cuses on Saturday The Taft mana
gers declared yesterday that the two
district conventions next Tuesday
would elect Taft delegates and that
the state convention the next day
would take similar action Judge Err.
nest w. Gibson OF Brattleboro, chair
man of the Roosevelt committee, was
equally sure yesterday that the I'd
district convention at Montpelier
would choose Roosevelt delegates
that the state convention would also
favor his candidacy, and that there
was a fighting chance in the LIST dis.
trict convention at Burlington. Both
committees will continue active work
this week in rounding up the dele
gates to the district and state con.
yentiOns.