The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-04-03
CURRENT COMMENT.


n dispatch In tlie Boston Gl0be. lsn4
AeK b RsItland datc line, nfinfs iIHa
opinion Of d politician wh0 intfmates
Thai ii would nat he unlikely ii tIie
SENATORIAL bgtt this fall should be made
even more exciting and complicated Mn
the Withdrawal oil Senator William u.
Dillingham;. This. with fiaiit on for
the place recently made vacant III TIE
death Of Senator Rediield Proctor h
which Ex-Governor John WI Stewart, at
the age Of 80 years, was recently ap.
pointed, would c0mplicate conditions To
an alarming extent. The politician
whose name, BY the way, Is not naen.
toned, bases his intimation Of the pos.
sible withdrawal of Senator Dillingham;
90 the strength Of statement said to
have been made BY Senator Dillingham;
" friends that he did not Ike Wash.
ington life.
This Talk on the possible resignation
of Senator Dillingham; IA the height 6f
folly lle "a now at his prime III life
and career being SIS years 0f aae. I'LL.
though be would easily pass for 30, and
ahle In influence and power Of accom-
plishlnent. He has been climbing rapid
81 in bis modest way during the past
few years, gaining the esteem OF lis
colleagues through mis- personality, and
their admiration for his ability through
his deeds. There has not been day
since he went TO Washington that lie
has not developed and at the present
time he Is q much-souaht senator
among his colleagues who have pro-
found respect for his Judgment and adj
vice and realizing sense 81 his in-
tluence in the Senate chamber and in
the committee rooms AT the present
time he II chairman Of the immigration
committee and II was his bill that was
recently made into law And senator
Lodge of Massachusetts, says that im4
migration II We greatest question before
ills country today.
Now the Journal does not know
whether senator Dillingham; likes Wash
ingtun life or not lots Of them don't,
ana among them was Senator Proctor,
and lots Of them do. 1t Is doubtful
however, ii man has ever left his
nome In Vermont 10 represent mis- state
st the national capital who has not at
some time sat down with his head on
bis hands, and in longing moment for
4 whitf az Green Mountain air. rasnbie
hy her habbling brooks. the quiet Of a
hume nesting among the naples, come
ont with a Does Il pay, and wnat does
IL all amount to t0 Ne a Senator III
comparison with thesegs OF course we
all have the homesick fever Az times
until our deaths. There III 40 mecca.
beautiful and attractive az IL may APP
pear. for the honesiclx man but home
and who hasn't been homesiclS at times
There's no place like home and never win
be but we can't all have the surround
ings and conditions that we would like
lest without sacrificing ambition and sef-
siee to our fellow man. III Senator Dill
bingham once said to some friends that
he didn't like Washington life he was
honiesiek, that's all
Does II look reasonable that a man
ike Senator Dillingham; would lay down
the cause Of his state lust at the time
II viii BE- necessary 10 start new man
At the foot 81 the ladder III the other
place allotted to the state. Just at the
time when Bill state needs him most, bel
cause he was hDmesiclss D0 YOU think
Ia would come horne or III somewhere
else fa liveg Vermont n proud III
have him III Washington and there he
wiIl stay, and there IKE WIFI climb, and
there he viii develop, and there ne viii
lake care 81 Vrmont's interests and take
his part IN the moulding Of the laws Of
mis- country and ours. Montpelier
Journal.