The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-08-31

| ltAEnAiA ittiAt ~ y. w. NiAtH III Ht
Messenger defining his position
on the goyernorshp. The Barre
Times says in part: The statement
which Charles w Gates makes over
his own signature today relative to
| the Vermont governOrship bears out
the position taken by The Times
which asserted at the outset that MIR.
Gates was not candidate for the Re
publican nomination in the CONNOLLY
| accepted use OF the term, but that
he could not and would not refuse
the nomination il the Republican
patty convention should tender il to
| MIN
The Times should have gone iurth-
or and declared that Mr. Gates is not
candidate in any sense Of the word
The Messenger has it from Mr.. Gate
himself that he is not a candidate Of
any shade or complexion. He has told
the people of Vermont that he does
not want the Office. The Messenger
believes that Mr. Gates knows his
| own mind ON this question. and il al
SO knows That those who are seeking
to force the nomination upon him are
actually working against his own sin
cero wishes.
The Messenger has no doubt that
The Times is most friendly TO Mr..
| Gates. but il ought to remember that
even an unintcntional misrcp
| ton of mis- position is injurious to Mr..
| Gates The Messenger has said be-
fore that it believed that the present
situation in the Republican party re-
| eardng candidates for the nomina-
tion for governor grew out Of sin
cere general belief that Mr. Gates
would stick 30 his original decision
| not to enter the race in any way
This statement is borne out by the
announcement in The Rutland He
l'ald that Had he (Mr. Gates announc
ed himself as a candidate before Mir.
Clement entered the field, The Her
aid would have been glad to have
supported him
The Messenger thinks that that is
the situation in a nutshell Many
and many a man who is now pledged
20 supper one or another OF the can
didates now in the field probably
would have liked to have supported
NJ Gates for the goycrnorship bus
they took Mr. Gates at his word that
he Was not and would ne be can
didate and turned their assistance
elsewhere.
! This reveals the embarrassment of
| tho situation TO Mr. Gates, and there
Is no doubt thu il is a serious en-
! bar 'assmcnt. Tor any honorable man
placed m a similar portion would
feel thai me was compromised to say
~, the least Therefore AR. Gates
seeming friends who are urging him
On the people are causing him no lit
tie worry. as evidenced by his recent
siu cmont
For il The Times is right in lcttne
the inference be made that Mir Gates
is receptive candidate. Mr.. Gates
is placed in that undesirable posi-
tion OF attempting TO obtain by
stealth what he openly declared he did
not wan, and would not 20 after. 10
if most unfovorable light in which
The Times. an mwittingly without a
doubt Is p csenting Mr.. Gates to "a
large number OF his friends.
The Times thinks that there is q
more or less shrewd political trick
on foot to side rack Mr. Gates II the
contemporary is right then Mr..
Gates is part and parcel of that more
or less shrcwd political trick for Mir.
Gates made that sta cmcut on his
eva FREQ viii and accord lie know
what he Was saying and he did NOT
Jump into pint hall-cogked but seri-
ousiy considered every word
he used. And IL was his in
tCnion To make il plain that
bis statement should not be
twisted into such shape a. 90 mean
thai hc was In reality willing while
trying 10 make ID appear that nc
didn't want me nomination. Tha is
Just the piece of apparent double deal
inr hc sought TO avoid. IN fact he
said cmphaiically in his statement
that he did not wan. his words mis-
construed but to be- taken at their
full face value. namely that he ddn't
want the nomination and hat he was
not a candidate.
1t would appear to The Messenger
that IL there was amy attempt Go
NO * a trick play on he voters of
Vermont It comes in this cndcayor to-
force MIR Gates into the arena
I against his express wishes and TO his
certain embarrassment II accusa-
tiUns of trickcry are 10 hc made. l.
might we'll bc alleged with considv
able more ground than that advanced
%, The Timos. that ccrllin men inter
catcd primarily in The political for.
urcs of another man are trying to
nuke Mr. Gates pWll their chcslnu,s
out of HE n-o Tor thcm. TO devise
] such tr.cl would not seriously tax
! anyhody'a Ingenuity. and there aro
! ,nilin cafmarls 600 the present sd Co..
aiicn th1l lond color 90 the belief
; that ihc effort 60 hring Mr.. gate, IT,.
go ho Gold is noihius moe az less
, fhan desire ncr 60 help Mr. Gates
ON hs own account. but rather To- us,
= him as the stepping stone Tor sn0ua-
or iavuric who seeks q nomination