The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1920-05-01
What About Emery?
Express & standald)

In the Bellows Falls Times write
up Of the three candidates for the
governorship Of Vermont, (Agan
was not then in the field the editor
has ingeniously exalted all three, but
tactfully reserved his supreme efforts
toward placing the qualifications Of
candidate, Il little in advance OF the
other two This naturally was to
have been expected, and had dozen
on more candidates been in the field,
the sequence would have been the
same. Just how the voters will de-
eide the comparisons is for the fu
turc to prove.
While willing to agree with all the
Bellows Falls Times editor has said
of Nj. Rabbit, unfortunately we
never heard Of Mr.. Hardness until he
announced himself a candidate) the
Express and Standard does not swal-
low without grain Of salt that Cur
It's S. Emery is not the equal of
Frederick II. Babbtt in many re-
spects. We mean in all that applies
o his not tackiing propositions that
require great energy, foresight and
skill, and what is virtually an insinu
alton that he came out of Chelsea
one of the smaller town in middle
Vermont, and thereby cannot rise
o any great height. Jesus came out
Of Nazareth, Il section of country NOT
considered par-eXccllcncc on the map
1t that time; but Jesus certainly
made his mark in the world, and bears
| pretty good record even today. To
be sure we do not compare Curtis s.
Emery with Jesus, but do use the IL
ustraton to prove that some mighty
rood men can come out Of Chelsea.
As to tackling propositions that re-
luirc great energy, foresight AMI
kill, or taking a small business and
making it great how many of our
most brilliant men have ever become
prominent along these particular
ines? Indeed these successes can
ruthfully be placed upon one-mind
ID men; men who center their encl'-
gies and skill upon one object in life
ND force that object to the limit:
for example, Carnegie in the steel
works; Edison in inventions; Wanna
nakel in store enterprises, and other
Ike men in similar undertakings. But
we're these and other like men ovcg
exceptionally great along various
,thi lines? Ex-Prc sident Roosevelt
vas ono OF the most noted men OF hi,
lay; but did he over take a small
business and make it great? DID ou.@
ch-belovel and martyrcd pres
dent, Abraham Lincoln, take Il
mall business and make it great?
let each OF these, and others like
hem, who never took 4 small bust
lcss and made it great, possessed cX-
cutvc ability and became great in
heir day. Even executive ability re-
luiros energy, force and determined
will behind it to be pronounced sue
ess, and these the two presidents
)ossos5ed but were these two, or
Many similar men, with executive
tbilty alone, ever noted for accum-
lating Il great amount of wealth? 1t
S the one-minded man, or those with
pnly one aim in life, and with
;prinkling of good luck behind it,
Who pile up the dollars, and whom
We point out to our children as men
who have made success in life, an
argument which is frequently over
hawn. The argument does not prove
hey are great men, OF are over bur
lened with foresight, or an abund-
lnce of skill because they took one
branch of business and make a sue
,eSs OF it.
Curtis S. Emery has executive abil-
ty, a will of his own, and certainly
with force enough to back up any
enterprise he might undertake. If
he has not built railroads, or organ
zed plants, or invented ailplanes, or
)iled up millions, it is not his fault,
IL that he is not a man of foresight
md energy on this account. He has
lone what was placed before him,
md done it well; and the man who
loes well in small things-we do not
onsider all that Mr.. Emery has done
"small"-is capable of doing well
great and untried things if they
ome his way.
II Court" Emery, as he is frequent
called, had not exhibited more
han ordinary tact, and skill, and
natural ability and some Of the
nan prominence, he would not have
5een known, and with the favorable
equation he bears in Vermont to-
la Something has brought him to
he front-even something more than
being social, friendly and being
good citizen, and it must be a few OF
he qualifications we have mentioned.
Something even that Frederick II.
Babbtt may and may not possess.
And don't worry about him along
untried lines" until he has been put
the test. Curtis S. Emery will
make a first class governor in all that
5 required of him in appearance,
manners, foresight, skill, executive
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