The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1920-07-31
FINDS DALE HAS
STRONG SUPPORT
in ST. JOHNSBURY
Burlington News Writer
Makes Survey of Politi-
cal Situation

A staff correspondent of the Bur-
lington News has recently visited st.
Johnsbury and contributes the follow
ing interesting letter to the paper on
Col. Dale's popularity in ST Johns
bury:
One doesn't have to stay in st.
Johnsbury very long before he gains
the impression that aspiring polite
ians along the "West" side who are
plotting the downfall of Porter H.
Dale are in for period of disillus
ionment. A News reporter who
knocked around town a day, avoiding
every political source of tainted
news and gaining impressions from
the proletariat has rather gathered
that Dale has good many friends
who will be heard from on election
day to the confusion of several am
bilious gentlemen. "Dale has made
a good Congressman" seems to be the
consensus of opinion and it ought to
require more than the desire of some
body else to possess the job to en-
compass a change.
Talking with one man who had
never ran for anything, who has
never had any favors from politicians
and never expects any the writer
CLEANED the fact that people in the
northeast section of the state gener-
ally believe that Dale has been right
on most questions of Importance and
that he has been decidedly right on
prohibition Prohibition became a
reality it was frequently stated
through the action of Republican
majority. The majority of the Sena-
tors who voted for prohibition were
Republicans, the majority of the
members of the House who voted for
Prohibition were Republicans so that |
Dale voted with the majority of his
party on the only issue that a spring
politicians hope to defeat him on.
Talking with several gentlemen on
the veranda at the st. Johnsbury |
House one of them set up the Dale
proposition rather concisely.
Nobody is running against Greene
over on the East side" he said
because Greene has made a petty
good Congressman. He is popular
over there and nobody seemd to le-
gard his vote on the Prohibition ques-
ton as any reason for voting against
him. Now Dale is also a good Con-
gresham. Personally he isn't as good
a mixer as Greene and probably
hasen't acquired the wide degree OF
popularity that has come to Greene
but he is good Congressman and has
done his work well so that there IS
no more reason for opposition to Dale
than there is to Greene, less IN TACT
when it is considered that Dale voted
with the majority of his party on
the Prohibition question"
Gibson seems to command the most
respect among friends of Dale but IL
is allowed that he will get a small
vote outside his home town. In the
meantime Dale is campaigning in n
own quiet way, dropping into TINS
and that town, meeting a lot OF peo-
pie and leaving with few more
votes than when he entered.
He had very good interview III
the. Caledonian-Record the other
evening which seems to have hit peo,
pie in this section as all right ana
the chances of the anti-Dale forces
Roadway in this part OF
Dales district seem scant. !,
Bv the way, one story the writer
heard retailed when here was that
Gov. Clement was very much lnclln>
ed to call a special session and 1t TOOK
action on the part of the
"antis" to prevent him from so do I
ing. This may be heresay ana IS
printed as such but it is in line with [
the story that has gone around the
state that several gentlemen were
very active in urging the Governor
not to call a special session.
OF course one of them could not
have been Frank W. Agan because because
Mr.. Agan wrote suffragist leaders
some time ago stating that he would
speak to Gov. Clement in their D.
half.