The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-09-15
DALE Is REN0MINATED
In THE SECOND DISTRICT
Yesterdays Primary Had the
Biggest Vote Ever Cast in
Vermont for Republican Can
didates Making the Count
Slow and Late--Women Voted
in Large Numbers But their
Ballots Did Not Change the
Result-H artness Pulled
Ahead Everywhere.

The Vermont primary Tuesday was
Ia sensational landslide for James
Hartness OF Springfield He got
nearly twice as many votes as any
of the other candidates and there was
no doubt as to the result after the
first dozen towns reported
Everywhere the tide set toward
the inventor of the ferret lathe and
the most strenuous efforts of the
other candidates and Their friends
gave them at best but sorry show.
ina.
Agan, Babbitt and Emery were so
closely punched that only the official
canvass will show the order in which
they were distanced According TO
the figures compiled by The Banner,
Agan leads Babbitt by couple dozen
or so votes and Babbtt is ahead Of
Emery by about the same margin
That these figures should be abso-
lutely correct is impossible.
The following is the summary of
the AS cciated Press as made at $50
this morning,
Montpelier, Vt, Sept 15.-A four
cornered contest for governor on the
Republican ticket in the state primar
les yesterday resulted in victory
for James Hartness of Springfield
by vote of nearly two to one over
his nearest opponent
Congressman Porter H. Dale was
renominated by the Republicans in
the second district, winning an easy
victory over two other candidates
These were the only important CON
tests Senator Dillingham; and Con.
gresham Greene, in the first district,
were renominated without opposi
tion
The Democrats, who had no con.
tests, nominated Fred c. Martin for
Governor, Howard +. Shaw for Sen
ator, Jeremiah c. Durick for Congress
In the First District and Harry w
Writer'S in the Second District
With only a few isolated towns
missing, the vote for governor was
Hartness 23,025, Agan 12,S4S, Emery
1880 Babbitt 12,267
For Congress in the second district
with few towns missing, the vote
was, Dale 1888, Gibson 1880, Gordon
1856 The total Republican vote of
about $4,000 was larger than any
ever cast for either governor or presi
dent ON the Republican ticket IN
Vermont, largely due to the fact that
women voted for the first time and
turned out In large numbers.
The spirited campaign conducted
by all the candidates for governor al
SC resulted in bringing out fun
male vote. The record number of
Republican votes previously cast in
this state was at the state election
in 1896, when the Republican nomi-
nee for Governor received 533 ,426
Hartness carried seven counties,
Franklin, Grand Isle, Windham and
Windsor Emery carried four, Essex,
Orange, Orleans and Washington.
Agan carried Bennington and Rut
land, Babbtt carried only Lamoille
OF the cities, Hartness carried Bur
lington, Montpelier, ST. Adams and
Vergennes Emery carried Barre and
Newport. Agan carried Rutland, All
the candidates for the gubernatorial
nomination carried their home towns
by large pluralities,
In the congressional contest Cor
don's chief strength was in his home
city or Barre, where he polled 1889
votes to 116 for Dale and 81 for Glib.
sem Dale easily carried Montpelier
and Newport, The two other cities in
the district Gibson ran up a large
vote in his home town Of Brattleboro,
Boston Sept. 15.-The Associated
Press compilation of the vote of Yer
mont today with one town, Norwich,
missing, gives Hartness, 23,713;
Emery, 12,761; Agan, 12,74S; Babbitt,
12,491.
ARLINGTON
For glasses see Slader the Rutland
oDtOmetrist. at Arlington hotel Tues