The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-03-31
Barre Citizens Take Pre-
liminary Steps fo Z
orous Cams $.
COMMITTF IF TEN
IS BE CHOSEN
Barre Will Do All 1t Can to
Send Gordon to /
Congress

4 A considerable number of men favor.
able to the candidacy of John w. Cor.
don for the Office OF representative in
Congress from the second district, gath
cred in the city court room last even
ing to act on certain preliminary steps
that must be taken before an active
campaign in his behalf can be effective
ly set in motion. Nothing of formal
character ATTACHED to- the meeting and
about everyone present contributed sug-
gestions while the conference was in
progress. In order that a movement in
favor OF Mr. Gordon's candidacy might
take tangible form with as little DELAY
as possible. tentative arrangements were
made for big meeting of citizens to be
held within the next week or 10 days.
,. Hollister jackson was elected az
chairman and committee consisting of
~ Ward Carver, City Clerk James Mae
kay and Nelson d. Phelps, was appoint
ed to make the final preparations for
the meeting. This committee was in
structed to select an executive commit.
tee OF 10 members to represent the men
who are desirous of furthering Mr.. Cor
don's interests in the contest. Acting
| IN the capacity of nomination com
mlttee, the men chosen last night are
to report their choice of 10 at the mass
meeting for ratification. Provisions
| were made for attending to the financial
details that must enter into any plan
tor bringing a mans candidacy before
ia f,.f, IL
rious suggestions were offered as to the
establishing Of campaign headquarters
IN Barre. II seemed to be the general
sense of the meeting that some attempt
should be made for temporary head.
quarters during the campaign and the
location and arrangements for those
quarters will be handled by the COM
mittee of 10 men.
That Mr.. Gordon's candidacy is heinz
treated with good deal of considera
ton IN the second district was evident
from reports received at the preliminary
meeting. Here in Barre there is oniet
feeling that nothing but the solidest
support will back Mr.. Gordon in his
home city and an opportunity for man
ifesting a friendly attitude toward his
announcement will be given shortly.
Preparations viii be made for the omen
ing rally and it s not unlikely that
number of prominent speakers will
participate in the meeting. r A more de-
tailed announcement will be made later.
Mr.. Gordon's Remarks.
At the request of the meeting, Mr..
Gordon supplemented his formal an
nouncement of a few weeks ago with
short address last evening. He smoke
substantially as follows:
y highly appreciate the interest man.
Tested by this gathering in my can
ddacy for the office of representative
in Congress. That such an interest ex.
listed was made known to me from MANY
sources before / announced myself as
a candidate. II had followed the usual
practice | would have stated that | had
consented to run for Congress at the
urgent request of many friends. thus
the responsibility of my can
didacy upon them. / did not follow
this practice, not because | was lacking
such request from many parts of the
district, but because / believe that n
candidate should first consider himself.
whether he is in situation to accent
an office and feels that he possesses
qualifications for it. OF the latter, it is
true, he may not be an impartial Judge.
He ought, however, to know to some
extent his own inclinations, studies and
IF he is lacking in these
he ought not to permit posi-
lion to be thrust upon him. If he has
never studied Greek he should NOT at
tempt professorship in that language.
If he has never run an engine he ought
not to handle the throttle of an express
train, II he has never studied the prin.
'lples and workings of our government
he ought not to seek TO be one of its
legislators.
Il know there is notion more or
ess prevalent that an American citizen
5 a jack -all-trades and that ma
ority of votes can make master of
l have never had much faith
n such a notion. Mere votes, though
hey may be unanimous, cannot supply
industry, knowledge and preparation. A
rood fellow may get the votes, but he
: 'prunella' still. He may have a glad
land for every voter, but laws are made
With the head and not with the hand
lie may attract by a pleasing personal
ty, but neither his manners nor his fea-
ures will appear in a statute. He may
alute every babe with unctious kiss,
mt this will not give the babe when he
caches manhood wisely conceived and
xecuted laws under which to live.
"All such practices, trivial though
hey may seem, have been deemed eff
acous methods of campaigns. They
re certainly time honored, for Cicero
avs they existed in his day. While
aving myself a small opinion of the
p and hand method of campaigning,
recognize the need of certain amount
I work to be done and expense to be
leurred in order to place candidate
luareiy before constituency Some
lndidates may need less of such assist
nee than others because they stand out
efore the public in the limelight of
Dme timely act or service. This act
r service may be due to accident as
ell as to more meritOrious causes. The
rt OF cross-eXamination applied TO an
lvestigation that attracted public at
sntion is said TO have made a governor
nd United States justice. a log cab