Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-06-02
"DESTITUTE OF TRUTH.

Ex-Governor Ormsbee, a Mccullough Sup.
porter, so Stamps the Recent Attack of
the Mccullough Press on Proctor.
To the Editor of the Rutland EUening
NeUs:
1 have seen some of the articles
which have appeared in the Benning-
ton, Brattleboro, Montpelier, and
other papers, making the most vicious
attacks upon the relations of Fletcher
d. Proctor to his employees, and the
conditions existing in the village of
Proctor. Their malicious falsity is
astounding.
I live within eleven miles of the
village of Proctor and know thor
oughly the conditions existing there.
l do not know another private indus
try which has particularly displayed
SO great solicitude for the well being
of its employees in all that goes to
and profitable in their neat homes.
their schools, their churches, their
free library, their free hospital. and
those many public enterprises which
are unique in the village of Proctor
that community from every point of
view is an ideal one.
Though village of 2,OCO people of
many .nationalities, clustered about
the shops and Quarries, do not know
another village in the state of Yer
mont which is its equal in orderliness,
observance of the Sabbath, and moral
tone. | do not know another town
anywhere in the state where the pro-
hibitory law is more thoroughly en-
forced than in the town of Proctor, or
where so persistent private efforts are
made to prevent the sale or use of in
toxicating liquor.
The gravity of the charge Or insinu-
alton that Mr.. Proctor violates the
provision of section 4.519 of the Yer
mont statutes by leasing buildings
owned by him under his control to be
used for the sale of intoxicating LIQUOR,
great as is its gravity, falls far short
OF It's known falsity. 1t is particular
ly TO me an imputation and direct as
sault upon the well known honesty
and integrity and law abiding char
acter of Mr.. Proctor, and cannot let
1t pass without offering as a contra
dlctlon the statement that the entire
charge is destitute of a particle of
truth and is in effect slanderous and
defamatory of the character of one of
the best citizens of this state.
If 1T is crime to create a great in
dustry IN the state ofVermont, to pro-
vide for 2, 800 men, TO build up model
community, then Mr.. Proctor and
Senator Proctor and those associated
with them m in the management of the
business at Proctor are guilty, but 1
wish L had the honor and credit Of
sharing in the responsibility therefor.
The publications to which I have
referred and other like ISLANDERS all
seemingly emanating from the same
source ard for like purpose, which
are filling the mails of Vermont at
this time, are new in the political his
tory OF our state and are degrading
our politics to low plane. I never
dreamed that any one in the ST ate OF
Vermont-no matter to serve what
ends-would dare to so traduce and
wickedly SANDER any man, industry,
and community. To me, a neighbOr
knowing their utter falsity these
wicked and outrageous charges are
simply appalling. When the good
people of Vermont understand the
extent of their falsity, they will ap-
pear appalling to them also.
E. j. ORMsBEE.
Brandon, Vt, Nay 81, 7gO2.
The above is from the pen of Ex-
Gov. E. j. Ormsbee of Brandon, who
has been a supporter of Gen. McCul-
Tough through this campaign until dis
gusted with the methods employed to
strengthen his candidacy. Which
have the voters of Vermont the great
est confidence in, Gov. Ormsbee, a
no an of the strictest integrity, and one
whom they were glad to honor with
the highest state Office in their gift.
or the originators of an article which
Gov. Ormsbee has stamped as being
destitute of particle of truth?n