The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-05-27
HUGHES ENDORSED
BY REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION
Delegates Neaffim Expressed
Choice Of Primary Election
FRANK E. HOWE PRESIDES
Only One Contest in Election of Dele.
gates to National Convention at
Chicago.

Montpelier, May 27-Republicans in
state convention yesterday unanimous
ly adopted a resolution endorsing JUS
tics Charles f. Hughes fos she Repub-
lican presidential nomination, The re-
solution was presented by Clarke C..
Fits OF Brattleboro, and the mention
of the name of Hughes provoked an en-
thusiastic demonstration on the part
OF the convention, which lasted for sey
eral minutes. Mr. Fits resolution was
as follows:
The Republican state convention
of Vermont endorses and affrms the
spoken word of the Republican yot-
ers OF the state in favor of Charles
f. Hughes for the presidential NOM
ination. We believe that his un-
blemished record, his wide expert
ence, his forceful character and hic
great intellect combine to make him
the master hand 10 navigate the ship
OF state across the uncharted shoals
which are ahead We urge that the
delegates elected by this convention
by their personal efforts and by their
votes support him with the full
strength OF the state.
The convention did not meet until
11.20 and took a recess at u until l.3O.
Five hundred and eighteen OF the ell
delegates were present The conven-
tion organized by selecting ex-Lieuten-
ant-Goyernor Frank f. Howe Of Ben
nington as temporary chairman and
Warner r. Graham OF Rockingham
and BENJAMIN Williams OF Proctor
as temporary secretary and assistant
secretary, respectively. This organi-
cation was later made permanent. The
convention had been called to order by
Stanley c. Wilson Of Chelsea, chair
man OF the state committee and prayer
had been offered by Rev. Stanley +.
Bloomfield of Montpelier
Mr. Howe, in taking the chair, ad-
dressed the convention as follows:
Mr., Chairman and gentlemen of the
convention
The Republican party this year
stands on the outside looking in and
it is a good place to be-not often but
once in a while The actor who is al
ways on the stage forgets how the
play looks IRON the pit and the gal
lery.
The directors of a bank sitting
around the long table behind CLOSED
doors are in danger of sometimes for
getting the people whose money they
| handle. and without whose confidence
| and deposits the bank would be of as
little value and Importance as an emp
ty tin can in Junk dealers back yard
The executive board of a railroad com
| pany or other public service corpora
tion often suffers from inability to I'M
derstand the point Of view from which
it's acts are considered.
The Republican party has held tn,
center of the arena so continuousl.
for the past two generations that i
came to consider itself impregnabl,
and secure. like Caesars wife. abov,
suspicion Perhaps it needed the les
son OF 1912 and the years following
| Anyhow it is for the party to prof
by that lesson and to face the futur
chastened by its defeat and prepare,
to resume the responsibility which tn
signs of the times indicate is to b
again placed upon the Repubica
party by the voters of the Unite
States ON the first Tuesday of mex
| NOvembe:.
If the Republican party needed
lesson the country needed it NOR,
The affairs of the nation had bee
conducted so long and so successful
by the statesmen Of the Republica
party that the country had almost 70
gotten that it could be plunged int
business depression and started o
the road toward national discredit an
disgrace by the mistaken acts OF a
administration, meaning we'll, bl
building on foundation OF theoret
cal rather than of practical service.
We have no quarrel with the indivi
ual members of the Democratic part
They are our neighbors and our frienC
and are just as patriotic and pu
minded as we. We admire and a
! plaud their idealism and We doubt II
| the sincerity of their motives, b
we question their judgment and lame
the distressing failure of their 50
ernmental ideas, rainbow is
= beautiful thing but the strength of
iarch does not warrant its use as
chief support.
The Democratic doctrines SOU
we'll enough when cleverly spoke
but so also do the stories of Bar
Mmchausen. II is only when {
doctrines OF the Democracy are put
effect that their weakness is show
X The country has had upwards of thr
= years experience now of absolu
4 Democratic control of government a
l. II Is enough to make the blind $,