The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-06-17
SAW ANOTHER B0GY.
MeasIy Attempt Of Rutland Herald to
Make Candidate Prouty IA Corpora
tion Mau"--Prouty's One Corporate
Relation Explained.
TConmunicated.l

IN It's isue Of June II, the Rutland
Herald ID the title Of its leading editorial
asks The question, Ii Prouty a corpora
tion manf1
The editorial Is one Of considerable
length and was written apparently to
cover the EDITORS failure to answer Or
further discuss the complete REPUTATION
made under the form Of political adver-
rising Of two specific charges made By
the Herald alleging miHstatement Of
TACT by Mr. prouty, candidate for nomi-
nation to the governorship. In a previ-
GUS issue Of the Herald. the refutation
here referred TO appeared and in that
same issue, the Herald stated that its
readers might except a categorical
answer. Categorical answers are some
Times not 50 easy and it seems that the
Herald concluded that discretion is still
the better part OF valor.n Hence its
attempt TO sidetracx the issue in which
it woefully failed TO make out its case
and IN lieu thereof, I'd introduce the
question above referred to-
To such extent as may follow upon a
dictatorship in telephone company
whose business Is restricted to Orleans
and q portion of Caledonia counties IN
this state, Mr.. Prouty is corporation
man. II Is true that he became a direc-
tor Of this corporation, which il known
as Che Passumpsic Telephone company,
after the legislative session Of 1906,
when certain legislation bearing upon
telephone companies failed to material
lie. Whether the history of House Bill
659 is as the editor Of the Herald puts
it, Is matter OF no present consequence.
His recital is Just as interesting wnether
It Is dream caused BY one Of the sew
eral influences that make dreams, or
whether he reads by the book. Presnm-
ably most OF the farmers heard Of their
great interest in the bin for the first
time when they read the Herald editors
effusion
Tae whole question Is how far q dr.
rectorship OF this sort in local company
makes Mr.. Pronty corporation man
In its endcayor u show that this MEM
bership properly elassifies Mr.. Prouty.
as corporation man" the Herald
adopts its usual tactics by reaching out
for the bugaboo on which II never allows
dnst to gather In other words, IL can
not continue long IN the discussion OIL
any matter Of state politics without
bringing into It's argument. so far as
it develops argument. the name Of Proc
tor Hence in aiming at placing sniti-
cient suspicion upon Mr.. Prouty to indi
cate that he il corporation man,
II has to hyphenate bis name with the
name 1T loves least This il not alto
gether surprising for how otherwise
would the Heraidfs owner know that
is editor was earning his sRiaryi
SO. the Herald summons from the for
gotten past, spook In the form Of a
cruelty treated telephone bill, I'LL 659.7
The Herald claims that BY means Of
what it il pleased 10 call Proctor
Pronty machine, the bin was rendered
useless by means Of the pulling of all
les teeth before passage. Il goes further
and accredits Guy Bailey Of Essex, who
happens % be candidate for secretary
Of state aginst the wishes of the Herald,
as tha dentist who extracted the teeth. |
Ia other words the Herald would have
IT, readers believe that d certain teie
phone bill was so doetored and amended |
that even when finally passed it added |
nothing To legislation then existing and /
LII this through the influence and active |
ageney Of some Proctor Pruuty Bailey /
Again, from this influence it
fraws the horrible conclusion that All /
If the slaughter WAS done to pave the (
way for Mr. pronty to become d director /
n the Passumpsic Telephone company.
The story is told that a certain Ner- /
mont doctor ol an investigating turn /
Il mind traced case Of tnhercular con. T
Of which his patient died. as
iaxing begun with corn on The patients {
little toe. This Ii an example ef far
etched analysis, but no more 50 than
he HeraIi's argument regarding the
imasculated telephone bill and its bear.
ny upon Mr. Prouty's dictatorship In a
Deal telephone company subsequently
oTmed
10 be entirely serious, Mr.. Prouty's
connection with the Passumpsie Tele
hone company il primarily due To d de-
nand of local stockholders that the To-
Atty in which the company does htisi-
less be represented in its board Of diree.
ora. That ii why he II there and that
J why he has been reelected. lie i
hare because bis neighhors have conf
enee that his influence as a director
Will assure them a better service and
airer treatment generally than if local
interests were uHrepresented in the same
oely. Before accepting membership IS
director NM Prouty uneqHivocally in-
ormed the company that He il a believer
i state supervision Of the telephone
ompanies doing business in the state.
Re atill believes that supervision neces-
ary.
III this makes Mr. Prouty corpora
ion man, the Herald may make the
lost OF it. 1t should recognize the fact
hat Mr.. Prohty II the only candidate
or office in Vermont today who mas
ubiicly favored the placing of "the
reatest monopoly IN the state" TO use
be Herald's language, under state su.
ervision.
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