The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-27
SAYS DARLING
SLANDERED HIM
Frank E. Howe Issues State
ment from Hospital at
Montpelier
PAYS RESPECTS TO
PERCIVAL w. CLEMENT
Points to His Public Record in Refuta-
tion of Loyalty Charges Made by Bur-
hngton Candidate-Asks Voters to
Support Him Sept. 10.
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Especial to The Reformer)
MONTPELIER, Aug. 81
Former Lieut.. Gov. Frank E. Howe
| recovering from severe attack of
| bronchitis and grip which has kept him
in bed in the Heaton hospital since
Aug. |, today issued a statement to
the voters of Vermont, paying his re-
speets to both his opponents in the
race for the Republican gubernatorial
nomination. In it he charges that
Judge Charles III. Darling has slandered
him and points to his public record
| by way of refutation. AS to P. w.
Clement Mr.. Howe says that no man
who has profited even Indirectly by
the sale of liquor ought to seek the
office of governor on an issue which
even partly has in mind the purpose
of continuing the sale of liquor in
this state. The statement follows:
To the Voters of Vermont:
As candidate for governor of Yer
mont, had planned to spend the month
of August and he first few days of
September visiting rs 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-
tai, Montpelier, suffering from a Sc
we're attack of grip and bronchitis. To-
| day | am allowed to sit up few
minutes for the first time, and am prom
ised that | shall be released from the
hospital within few days, but 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 activity for the
remainder of the campaign. For this
, reason, | am compelled to request my
, friends and supporters to look after
my interests in the various sections of
the state. | know that, under the cir
cumstances, they will do this. gladly;
and | appreciate the willingness to aid
that many of them have so cordially
expressed.
: During the past three weeks l have
not been permitted to read the news
papers or to attend to my correspond
ence. | 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 indirect report
although the details are as vet fan
: from complete.
| understand that Judge Darling and
some of his satellites have attacked me
questioning both my honor and my
]. honesty and accusing me of varied and
sundry wickedness. If / am guilty
l am not aware of it. l served twt
; terms. in the house of representatives
one of them as speaker; the people
: have honored me by electing me lieu
tenant governor and president of tn,
senate; | served as chairman of the
commission that drafted the workmen :
compensation law and have been !,
z member of other state commissions
Il Governor Graham appointed me a mem
) Der of the Vermont committee of pub
lie safety and citizens of Bennington
= made me 4 member of the local wa
h service committee; | spent severa
e months and several hundred dollars O
J money, earned by my own head an,
g hands, recruiting for the First Vernon
: regiment. | have been called on t
= aid in every patriotic activity in Yer
l. mont since the war started. Yet nov
comes Judge Darling and slanders me
He says that | am dangerous char
acter and attempts to prove it by Ger
) tain clippings twisted and distorte
out of the relation in which they wer
used-edited untruthfully and misin
4 terpreted, to do me harm. | am com
), forted, though, that in past campaign,
~ Vermont voters have not been lead b
personal villifcations
Mr.. Clement S candidacy indicates
very earnest desire to be governor, fe
IN this is his fourth attempt Three time
repudiated by the voters of Vernon
in the past, he hopes to win this yea
er by opposition to the national prohib
ed tion amendment. His candidacy hf
2, tendency to mislead his own follow
y ers into thinking that by voting fl
~ him they are helping prevent the rat
fication of the amendment Rattle;
tion depends fully ninety-nine per eel
upon the legislature elected, and onl
al slightly and indirectly upon the go
ernor Mr.. Clement is merely usif
hs the issue in an effort to be governo
ng He will talk vigorously of other thing
elk but his chief reliance is on the pr
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