New-York tribune., 1920-10-25
Vermont Safe
For Harding
By $4,000
Three-fourths of Women Ex-
pected to Cast First Vote
for Republican Ticket:
Wilson League Is Assailed
Idealist t for Governor
Hartness, Termed a Man
With a New Idea, Almost
Certain to Garry the State
Bv Charles T. White


BURLINGTON, Vt, Oct. 22.-rhe
present indications warrant the pre-
.aiction that Vermont will 60 for
Harding and Coolidge by between 40
roo and $4,000 The average Repub-
sican plurality in the Green Mountain
kare is around 10000.
It is estimated that about 10000
women Will vote this year, and the Re-
oublicans probably will have the sup
vsr, Of three-fourths of them.
The League of Nations issue has been
,hrasAed cut in factory, at the fire
side, in the office and on the farms.
The net result is that the great ma
lority of the people Of Vermont are
opposed to the Wilson League. A year
ago the women Of the state were large
IL in favor Of the Wilson League. The
intervening twelve months has been a
period Of intensive study and analysis.
The League, as Abraham Lincoln would
say, has not "soured."
New Kind of Governor
The Yankees of Vermont have little
use for anything that does rot wear
well In addition to giving Harding
and Coolidge q smashing majority, the
Republicans of this state are going to
try an experiment in governors. They
are gong TO elect as uneir chief exc
cutive James Hartness, of Springfield.
. successful manufacturer of machin-
ery and tools. d practical idealist, an
astronomer and man with an idea.
it has been some years since the
voters o. this stea0ygoing common
wealth understood anything resent bling
AZ experiment in the governorship.
Heretofore they have taken on & canii-
cate whose mental operations have been
of the conventional type. Mr. Hartness
convinced the Republicans il the pri-
mary that this Is the year for man
with q new idea.
Hartness began his campaign for the
nomination by the issuance of a pam
phet entitled Campaign Of Progress
for Nermonters. Taxes are high
enough already, says the man with the
idea, and it is nonsense to ask the tax
payers to stand for the construction
Of roads and the development of water
power by new taxation. Here is where
HartneSs applies the new idea. which
has captured the imagination of the
people
Being successful manufacturer him
self and having opened branch estab-
lishments that have done we'll, he
stands for statewide campaign for
develoDlng the resources, both physical,
mora and mental, of the seeding"
method;
OK .L1,,.. *, 4. 1,
one by which seedlings and cuttings
would be taken from tie desirable in
dnstrles III orCer 10 start new units.
1t is we'll known fact that the great
est Industries have erted from very
small teginnircs," iIarrness sayg
"No one can offer plan that equals
this. 1t is that has been dem
cnstrated by lae creation of five Off
snoots from the parent plant at Spring
field. The Sr4...e.ield plants are mostly
ewned by the people in Vermont and
we're started with little or no money.
Two Big Booms in Industry
"They brought into this section of
me country about $4,000 a year thirty
years ago and they brought in last yea
about $l0000,O00, and there is every
Indication that they are only just get
ting under way and many other indus
tries may be started
II believe in Vermont. I believe
there IS great future for our state
believe it can be Obtained by pro
viding home opportunities for Yer
mcnters X fits Vermont. 1t fits Yer
monters il fits natural law. 1t fits
agriculture It is practical and work
able plan OF the people, for the people
and by the people.
1T results in greater income for Yer
monters. Better local markets. Bet
ter Highways fer all More people VIII
come 10 Vermont Vermont boys viii
stay IN Vermont. Vermont money will
stay in Vermont. Other money will
come to Vermont"
MIR Hartness Vs one of the speak
e-s al Republican rally in Mont
pelier Wednesday night. He cXpound
ed d doctrine that would not have been
listened to patiently the first time at
Cooper Union lie stated tnat it was
lank folly to attack corporations en-
roylng large numbers of men as they
are so often attacked by agitators and
husybodes. The corporations. after
all ne SAID, were merely big families,
made up OF human beings with stom
schs to be filled and with worthy aspi
ratlons TO be satisfied.
tie said that the ability of the worker
must be studied, and when u man or
woman began 10 show signs Of cN-
perlneSs in a Given line OF manual Up-