Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-05-22
THAT DEBT TO PROCTOR.
(From the Ludlow Tribune.)
CFrom the Ludlow Tribune.)

The Tribune has been trying to find out
whether there is any reason on earth why
Cavendish or any part of Windsor county
should feel under obligation to Fletcher
ID. Proctor, now candidate for the gov
crncrship. To question in these columns
last week "CaVcndish Correspondent
sends the following reply:
Mr. Editor:-In your last issue you spoke
of two matters, concerning the gubernator-
ial question. about which you are in doubt
The first ! know nothing about. In regard
to what Cavendish owes Fletcher Proctor:
Proctor Is one of Cavendish's sons: Cav
endish has already furnished two COVER
nors and one ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and she
is ready to add another to the list. In re-
gard to the monument l would ask If in
years to come. Allen Fletcher, Jr.. should
come forward for any of Ludlow's political
plums the Tribune would arise and say,
we don't want anything of YOU, your
father gave us q library once but that Is
nothing to you"
AS to the early history of the Proctor
| family, the great-grandfather was one of
the first settlers of the village that bears
mis- name, and did great deal toward
| building up the village. On his mother S
side the buttons were the first settlers in
this village and kept store and the first
hotel here. Cavendish proposes to stand
by her descendants. She has one thing
more to be proud of: that is that the
| grandfather of r. w. baldwin Of Barton
candidate for lieutenant governor, was
once a resident of this town.
OF course this letter does not answer the
question, What does Cavendish or Windsor
county owe Fletcher Proctor? 1t was writ
ten by a man well posted in politics and
town history hut 1t is not possible that the
extent of Cavendish's debt to Fletcher
| Proctor is that he lis one of Cavendish's
sons And yet careful perusal disoov-
ers nothing else 1t is generally conceded
that n man owes as much to his birthplace
as his birthplace owes to him. Cavendish
helped elect Fletcher Proctor. Speaker Of
the House of Representatives. What has
| Fletcher Proctor done for Cavendish ex-
cept being born there. He couldn't help
that anyway. If he had had his way he
would have been born in Proctor.
| Inasmuch as the correspondent has ask
ed the Tribune question. it shall be an.
swered. If, in years to come Allen Fetch
er. Jr., having moved to some other part
of the state and made a little town of his
own called "Fletcher," and having sold
the old homestead in Ludlow and forsaken
all his Ludlow interests, shall ask to be
elected Governor of Vermont the Tribune
will not support him IL there is any other
1T candidate in the feld-pro, ded the
present editor Is then running things. Is
that plain enough?
AS to what the Proctor family has done,
1t Is non-essential. The Proctors have been
well rewarded for 1t all. But If any of
them, especially Fletcher d., have done
anything for Windsor county or Cavendish
or Ludlow in the past twelve years we
want to know it. Tho correspondent il
duly welcome to all the pride he can ex-
tract out of the birth of the grandfather of
f. w. Baldwin of Barton.
THE FAMILY IN GOVERNMENT.
| (F,rom the Mont polier Jo,lrnalI
In the Governor canvass of 1896, w. w.
SticlSney and Josiah Grout being the can
dididates. by way OF calling public atten-
to peril to republican principles the
trainers of the tSate government feared
and sought to guard against, and which
was developing in the candi1ature of one
of the asprants to the governorshop. the
Waterman and journal carried at the
head Of its editorial columns the subloin-
ed extract from the BIZ Of Rights which
forms q part of the Constitution of the
State:
Article 7th.--That government Is, or
ought to be, instituted for the common
benefit protection and security of the peo-
PIE, nation, or community. and not for the
particular emolument or advantage OF any
single man, family or set of men, who
are a part only of that community and
that the community hath an indubitable,
unalienable and indefeasible right. to re-
form or alter government, in such manner
az shall be, by that community judged
most conductive to the public veal
/ The application of this wholesome admon-
ition OF the fathers to circumstances exist
ing In 1880. which had been long existent
and which continued till a later period,
reed not be rehearsed at this time but
the recurrence Of similar conditions so
soon. In the pending canvass. gives new
force and added solemnlty to this declara;