Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-06-05
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Proctor were all that they are now
charging, how could they ever con-
sistently vote for him or support him
for any office, in years to come?
But they know they are not speaking
the truth, and they convict themselves
of falsehood.
Passing by all the usual issues raised
by partisans against candidates to
whom they are opposed, these malign-
ers 20 to the town of Proctor, and by
the rankest kind of lying and con-
scious misrepresentation, try to show,
from the conditions alleged to exist
there, why Mr.. Proctor is not fit man
to be governor. They portray affairs
as they do not exist, withonta qualm.
They make of one of the Invest, most
thriving, most progressive Of Vermont
towns a veritable Dante's Inferno.
They picture 'the Proctors' as sordid
and grasping creatures, fattening at
the expense of their half-starved and
half-clothed "white serfs, to whom
they pay beggarly wages, and from
whom they exact everything that hui
man nature can yield TO greed. The
amount OF lying that has been done
about conditions in the town OF Proc
tor is enough 10 damn souls to ever
lasting perdition. There is absolutely
no warrant in these infamous charges.
The $500 employees Of the Vermont
Marble company are well treated, or
they would be likely TO know it. Mod
ern labor does not submit to tyranny
of the kind charged by the Mccullough
partisans against Mr.. Proctor without
rebelling. The men in Mr.. Proctor's
employ are satisfied, if the politicians
are not. There has never been a strike
in the town of Proctor, and the Yer
mont Marble company, though located
in a keen labor market, has never suf-
fered from being unable to get plenty
of help. This could not be so, if what
politicians allege were true.
Then there is Incorporation store"
that we have heard so much about.
Such store is conducted by the Mar
BILE company. but no employee is re-
quired to buy a cents worth at 1t, un-
less he chooses. The employee gets
his pay in cash, and spends it where
he wishes. That the corporation
store does a large business is simply
substantiation of the claim that this
store serves its patrons better than
they could be served elsewhere.
Nobody is obliged to stay in Proctor
a minute if he finds conditions intoler-
able, vet, strange to say, people do
STAY and are contented, which shows
how baseless these wicked inventions
of the enemy are.
Even the well-meant benelactions
of 1.-THE Proctorsr are distorted and
made to appear as petty schemes to
bleed the workingmen Of the pit
tance' they receive. The hospitals,
physicians, nurses, and accident in
surance system sustained wholly, or
practically so, by the company are
represented as cunning tricks to
fleece the hard-earned money away
from the poor quarrymen, cutters and
polishers. Such monstrous falsehoods
are enough to make the blood boil
There is nothing to which certain
parties and journals will not stoop.
Witness the following from McCul-
lough's home organ, the Bennington
Reformer:
There are certain things that
even the most grasping monopo-
list would hardly be expected to care
to control. One of these is a ceme-
terry. But the Proctors do not let
even the village cemetery slip from
their control. They own it the same
as they do everything else at Proctor
and If one of their white serts wants
to bury a member of his family there
he has to pay the Proctors for the priv
ilege and run the risk later of having
the body of his loved one dug up to
Get at marble deposit if there chan
ces to be one underneath.
How is that for fair and candid
argument on the governorship ques-
ton ? And there is not word Of
truth in it The land for the ceme-
teries at Proctor was given by Senator
Proctor, is owned and controlled by
associations and neither the Proctors'
nor the Vermont Marble company has
the remotest thing to do with them.
But this is only one instance of the
Mccullough style of politics.
The Montpelier Journal charges
that Mr.. Proctor, while passing as a
prohibinonist, is, in fact, a rumseller.