The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-16
LowpEN FOR PRESIDENT
Governor of llIinonis Candidate for
the Republican Nomination.

Governor of lllinonis Candidate for
the Republican Nomination.
The boom of Gov. Frank O, Lowden
of Illinois for the republican nomina-
ton for the presidency has been for
mally launched by Frank l.. Smith,
member of the House of Representa-
tiyes from the 18th Illinois district,
who is chairman of the Illinois repub
lican state central committee. In a
formal statement Mr.. Smith says, in
part:
The middle West has already
talked candidates. and we have
agreed upon one-Goy. Frank o. Low
den. We offer him to the party, not
as a mere favorite son. but as al
man big enough for the job. And we
invite attention to his record to-
prove our claim.
Gov. Lowden has worked for mis-
living and is governor of a great
state; he is a lawyer, and he knows
business affairs; he has sat in Con-
gress and he runs farm. Because
he is of the middle West he is in
spired by the unfrilled Americanism
of the Mississippi valley and has abb
sorbed its common sense. Born in
Minnesota, brought up and educated
in Iowa and now governor of Illinois,
he is of section of the country
where a man has to make good on
his own hook before he counts-and
Gov. Lowden counts.
"While have said, and believe,
that it does not matter what state c
man comes from / think it does
matter a lot, this year, what section
of the country has produced the re-
publican candidate The Mississippi
valley is the heart of the nation; III
inois is the very middle of the Mis-
sissippi valley. II is almost the exact
center of the United States-north
and south, east and west. 1t is less
subject to foreign influences and less
influenced by foreign fears than either
coast. The middle West is entirely
surrounded by the United States, so
the people naturally think of the
United States, first. Gov Lowden
is OF the type this section produces,
and his ideas, his habits of thought
and action have been fashioned in an
environment which is purely Amer
lean.
/" A good many of us have come to
think what our country needs most
Just now Is. not such raft OF new
laws. but whole lot Of effective adj
ministration of the ordinary affairs of
the government, and, with what Gov.
! Lowden has done in Illinois in mind
| think that is what we will get if
he is elected president
Washington has been talking a
| long time about a budget system OF
appropriations There is no doubt it
would save the country millions,
Illinois talked about the same thing
long time and got nowhere, but
when Gov. Lowden was elected it quit
talking and got the system.
There are fears, here and there.
of the /. W. WIS and potential boil
sheyiki My own notion is that the
! best bulwark against both is busy
people and n normal condition of in
dustry, thrift and progress. sin
cerely believe that an economical,
capable administration of public af-
fairs will be more discouraging to the
bolshevists and the /. w. WIS than
all the laws that can be passed. But
II these radicals, for what there in II
and they are the ones who are
trying to stir up trouble-insist upon
their efforts to overturn our Govern
ment. ] believe the record of Gov
Lowden in Illinois is sufficient
guarantee that their case will be
promptly and effectively attended TO
The middle West may not have as
many ambitions financial and social
as the east; it may not have as many
dreams. or nightmares, as the east
But it has decision and is practical
and heaven knows the Mexican stu
uation needs decisive and practical
treatment. 1t has Americanism, anc
cur foreign affairs will not be huri
by an injection of that. 1t has horse
sense in getting things done, and
while the application of horse sense
to the affairs OF the government might
seem a rank Innovation, do not be
lieve the country would suffer from
the treatment Those things are the
birthright of the men of the middle
West who care to count, and we of
fer them to the republican party
and to the country in Gov. Lowden
Also we invite the republican leaders
and the people in general to fare as
far as they please and see if they car
fare better
EAST ARLINGTON