The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-09-17
Women Nominated Hartness.

The Herald extends its congratula-
tions to James Hartness of Spring
field on his sweeping and cleancut vic
tory at the primaries on Tuesday for
the Republican nomination for COVER.
nor of Vermont Nomination is tanta-
mount to election and his well.wish-
ers may now greet Mr.. Hartness as
the next governor of Vermont" Vir-
tually final figures show that the Hart
ness vote was almost double that of
his next nearest opponent, Frank w.
Agan of Ludlow
Mr.. Hartness conducted a camnaign
of statewide publicity and his victory
IL triumph of the tack card-these
bits of campaign matter "adorninp"
fence posts, bridges and barns from one
end of the state to the other. The
HARNESS headquarters followed these
up with periodical publications. that
went to every voter in the state. He
made no extensive speaking campaign
and good many of the people who
voted FOR him probably never saw him
for this is his first attempt in politics.
But they knew what he looked like
from the photographs and what he
stood for and they voted for him
some 23,7l3 of them. He was largely
neutral on the wet and dry issue
and his high personal character. to-
gether with his modern advertising
methods, put him over" II cost Hart
ness lot of money-how much prob
ably will never be known. He NAV not
have violated the corrupt practices act
but il is generally conceded that his
campaign expenses exceeded those of
the other three candidates combined
But his campaign was dignified and
free from personalities.
Another surprising feature of the
vote is the Emery strength, develop
ing largely as an llth- hour surprise
There is no question about 1.-THE vote
of the women nominated Hartness and
piled up the big Emery figures. Emery
it was conceded, was strong in the
north but he showed unexpected
strength elsewhere. Had Emery spent
the money Hartness spent he probably
would have been nominated. He was
less well known to the women voters
who did not rally to his dry" program
as they otherwise might have been ex-
pected to do.
The Agan protest" vote. the sec
ond largest, Is remarkable when it is
recalled that the Ludlow man waged
his campaign almost single handed and
frankly admitted his "wetness." He en-
tered the campaign last when 90 per
cent OF the newspapers of the state
were tied up TO other candidates Con
sequently he was handicapped in plac-
ing his program before the voters. He
overcame this in part through news
paper advertising and by personal Wis |
its TO every county and a comprehen- :
siye speaking campaig ign. II is probably /
true that Agan would have been nomi- |
mated without the woman vote. which I
seems to have gone mainly TO Hart
ness.
f. II Rabbit of Bellows Falls ran 4
last. Undoubtedly his "strsddling" Of
The prohibition issue cost him the nom
nation. He admittedly had the most
experienced organization in the field
but it apparently was unable 10 de
liver" the votes. As it was, a difference
IF about 1000 votes only separated the
three "slso rams"
The real feature of the primary was
he size of the vote. The Associated
Press final figures for the entire state
with the exception of Norwich show
hat 60.153 ballots were cast for gov
'rnor, the largest on record in a Re
publican primary. and nearly double
he 1918 total of % ,526. II was com
monty estimated that 10000 women
lad registered for the primary. The
eturns would indicate that the esti-
nate was too low Rutland Herald