The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-17
eMIrH ARTICLE REACTS


The vicious and ill-timed attack up
on the loyalty and patriotism of
Frank E. Howe IS reacting upon
Candidate Charles Il. Oar ing, even in
his home city az Burlington Il is
iurt what might have been expected
Tor Vermon.ers sim like to see fair
play, even in politics \ Darlington
correspondent of the Free Press
quickly sized up the scheme tina; was
being put over; and that newspaper
in the spirit Of fairness published his
article in as equally prominent a pest
tion as the Smith article received
The correspondent said:
81 guess Mr. Darling wants to &c
governor real bad, and he is glad TO
have his friends write what he thinks
viii help make him governor, ever Il
the things they write can't do any
good for the country but can only DO
harm. heard may say on the
street the other day he thought all
Mr. Darling did about the Red Cross
was Just so he could be governor. !
don't know how he could tell what
was on the inside Of Mr. Darline's
head, but that was what ne said. And
he said he knew a lot more folks
right here IN Burlington who were
going to vote for Mr. Howe than for
Mr.. Darling
Nov ii that is so, it looks as ii
maybe Mr. Darling won't be picked
out by the Republicans to run fo~
governor, but they will pick ont w
Howe. Then ! guess the Republicans
will think Mr. Howe is a good man all
right, and they will take off their
coats and work hard to make him
governor because he is a Republican
and not a Democrat
And don't think Mr.. Smiths
piece in your paper will change II
much 1t will make Mr. Howes
friends mad, and they will work for
him all the harder Il will make Mr.
Darlinss friends glad but they are for
Mr. Darling already, so it won't do
him any good just to make them glad.
The folks that have already made up
their minds. It won't change one way
or the other And | guess that it
won't help Mr. Darling with the folks
who don't know yet which way they
will vote ! was talking on the street
the other day with drummer and he
said that the reason why Mr. Hughes
got licked for president was because
he kept knocking the other mans
goods lie says every drummer
knows that you can't sell your goods
any more by knocking the other
mans goods. They don't think you
pre- trying TO be fair. but are just
working hard TO sell your goods
whether YOU are fair or not, and they
don't trust YOU so much as If they
thought YOU were trying to be fair.
Now | guess if Mr. Howe wasn't
pretty good man all right, the folks
here in Vermont wouldn't have made
him their speaker and then when
they had tried him ont they made him
their lieutenant governor If he was
a bad man the folks in Vermont
would have caught on to IL long ago
and wouldn need Mr. Smith to tell
them. | don't think you can fool the
folks in Vermont very much. don't
know Mr. Howe myself. so can't say
whether he is a good man or not But
know lot OF Vermont folks and /
kind of trust what they think about
a man And il they have elected a
man to the two best Offices next to
governor, It seems to me kind of foo
ish 10 say he was born temperament.
ally on the wrong side 1t may be
he want born on Mr. Smiths side or
on Mr. Darling's side, but that don't
prove he wasn't horn on a good side.
Anyhow, the folks in Vermont have
said twice that they Ike the side he
was born on, and that ought to be
some consolation to him, even il Mr..
Smith don't like it,