The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-28
HOWE DEFENDS
HIS POSITION
Republican Candidate for Governor
Replies to DisloyaIty Charge
viii Let the People Judge.

Frank f. Howe of Bennington,
candidate for governor OF Vermont,
yesterday, issued the following state
ment:
To the Voters OF Vermont;
AS a candidate for governor of
Vermont. | had planned to spend the
month OF August and the first few
days of September visiting as many
towns as possible, that the voters
might become better acquainted with
me and be in position to decide for
themselves whether or not they
would support my candidacy.
The best laid plans often go, ,astray.
Since the first of August, | have been
confined to the bed at Heaton Hospi-
ta, Montpelier, suffering from
severe attack of grip and bronchitis.
Today ! am allowed to sit up a few
minutes for the first time, and am
promised that | shall be released
from the hospital within few days,
bat at the same time, ! am told that
must take the best possible care of
myself for at least two weeks. This
means that ! must limit personal ac-
tivity for the remainder of the cam
paign For this reason ] am com
PEELED to request my friends and sup
porters to look after my interests in
the various sections of the State
know that, under the circumstances,
they will DO this g adly; and apprec-
late the willingness to aid that many
of them have so cordially expressed.
During the past three weeks
have not been permitted to read the
newspapers or to attend to my cores
pandence. have been able to see
visitors only at rare intervals, and
then only for a moment OF course,
some things have come to me, by IN
direct report, although the details
are as yet far from complete.
! understand that Judge Darling
and some of his satellites have at,
tackled me, questioning both my honor
and my honesty and accusing me of
varied and sundry eWickedness. Il
am guilty, | am not aware of it, |
served two terms in the House OF
Representatives, one of them as
/ speaker; the peop'e have honored me
by electing me lieutenant governor and
( president of the Senate, | served as
/. chairman OF the commission that
drafted the workmens compensation
law and have been a member of other
state commissions; Governor Graham
appointed me q member of the Yer.
mont committee of public safety and
citizens OF Bennington made me a
member Of the local war service com
mittee snert several months and
several hundred dollars of money
earned by my own head and hands
recruiting for the First Vermont regi
ment. have been called on to aid in
every patriotic activity in Vermont
since the war started. Yet now come:
Judge Darling and slanders me. He
says that | am a dangerous character
and attempts to prove it by certain
clippings-twisted and distorted on
of the. relation in which they were
nsed-edited untruthfully and misin
terpreted, to do me harm. / am com
forted, though by the knowledge tina
in past campaigns, Vermont voters
have not been mis,ed by persona
viilihCations
Mr. Clements candidacy indicates
very earnest desire to he governor
for this is his fourth attempt Thre
, times repudiated by the voters of Vel
mont in the past, he hopes to vii
this year by opposition to the Nation
al prohibition amendment His car
didacy has q tendency to mislead hi
own followers into thinking that b,
, voting for him they are helping pre-
, vent the ratification OF the amend
ment Ratification depends full,
ninety.nne per cent upon the legis
, lature elected, and only slightly ant
indirectly upon the governor Mr.. Gle
ment is merely using the issue in Al
effort to be governor. He will tai
: vigorously of other things, but hi
! chief reliance Is on the prolicens
> sentiment in some Of the large
/. cities and villages Of the State.
h Mr. Clement and his lieutenant
seek to make the voters believe tina
+. the issue Is the same as that owe
q the Perry bill two years ago. The tw
/. are no more alike than daylight an
:. darkness. The Perry bill was an a
a tempt to impose state prohibition
h Vermont. while all around us Wa
o license territory. The present pr
posal is to stop the manufacture an
sale Of alcohol as a beverage throug
out the entire United States. wit
the patriotic example Of three milliC
.s American boys giving up all comfor
OF home and pleasure. undergoir
rigid mental and physical trainin
= and prepared to make any sacrfc
- think we should be willing to gi'
~ up the use of alcohol as beverag
because OF the harm It does to pa
. Of our people.
= Vermont has more than ten thou
and sons in service and five thousal
more awaiting call. Practical
le every home IN Vermont has furnishl
10 soldier or a sailor and many hom
b have sent more than one. The int,
n est and energy OF Vermont people a
r. ongaged in cause of worldwide 4
y. norlance. lt seems to me a poor Tin
~ for a man, who for years has profit
%, even indirectly from the sale
a, AZ liouor. to seek the Office of govern
- - OF Vermont on an issue which ev
" partly has in mind the nurpose
~ continuing the right to sell liquor
mi this state.
do not dispute Mr. Clements rio
10 seek the office. He Is now past
r years Of axe and. In the nau
,n,-eo 80 ovonte hie onnortlnitV