St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-04-01

one questions but that Mr.. Prouty
has been the live wire of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission he mas
been a corrective and constructive
agency, not only tearing down Things
that needed tearing down, but build
ing up what needed building up.
He has been active in securing just
and equitable laws, in recommend
ing legislation for the common well
fare of the country, and he is the
originator of the policy to have a
special commission appointed to regu-
late the great trade corporations OF
the country.
1T is true that all, or nearly all,
are partisans, and that we accept
men on our ticket because they are
on our ticket, whereas were we not
party-bound we would not accept
them. The abolition of slavery and
the tariff issue divided our fathers
with sharp lines of cleavage. The
lines are not so clearly defined now.
The great questions of today are not
party questions and before we want
Republicans, Democrats or Progress
sives we want men of capacity, of
courage and character, of honest re-
cords plus ability. Such a man is
c. A. Prouty.
'Prin. X. G.. Ham, the Democratic
speaker, declared himself to be a be-
lever in party government. Never
theless there are times when every
thing that has to do with party or
partnership must be put in the back
ground. There are times when things
come up which have very little to
do with party. There are men who
are bigger than parties. No one
thinks of Abraham Lincoln as being
a partisan. He was first and fore
most an Americans man bigger
than any party could ever be.
1--WE are hearing good deal about
A bigger, better and buster Vermont.
New movements are inaugurated and
as result of the recent amendment
to the U. S. Constitution there rests
upon us the responsibility of choos-
ing by direct vote of the people
Senator to represent us at Washing
ton. Today more than ever before
we ought to be alert and active in
the matter; for it is up to us to send
the best and strongest man without
regard to party. The ablest man in
Vermont today is undoubtedly c. A.
Prouty. In the next few years we
as a nation will have to grapple
with greater commercial problems
than ever before, and no man
even outside our own borders is re-
cognized as more expert in these mat
tiers than Mr.. Prouty. This election
will be the first in which we cast
our vote direct for Senator and it
behooves us to cast it for the best
man. Mr.. Prouty is that man.
Rev. Fraser Metzger represent
ing the Progressives considered this
a unique time. We have indeed, he
said, very unique situation in Yer
mont which permits us to take an
advanced position without censuring
our own party. Politics, he believed.
is not merely being Republican,
Democrat or a Progressive. 1t is
something bigger than that. 1t is
the very science of happiness of the
human race. When there comes such
a movement as this it deserves our
support. Here we have a man who
has fought to the front for the very
things we have asked for again and
again. He has championed the
causes upon which depend the future
welfare of this country. That being
so we should stand behind him. This
country is sick of the Office seeker.
Now we have, an opportunity to get
rid of this parasiticaI condition
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unfair system. know something of
what it is to be candidate. l know
why good men like Mr.. Prouty hate
to throw their hat into the political
ring, and because / can understand
and appreciate his attitude am
mighty glad to get behind him and
help push him to the front, that he
may be disgraced by the miserable
methods of our political campaigns.
The last speaker was M. M. Tap
lin of Orleans who explained how
the first Non-partisan Club was or
ganized in his own town and then
waxed fairly eloquent over Mr.. Prou-
ty as Senatorial candidate. We hear
much, he said, about a greater Yer
mont, but it is not big hotels and
liquor licenses that will make YER
mont greater. That can best be done
by putting our best men in the most
responsible positions. In the past
Vermont has had in the Senate
George F. Edmunds, Justin Morrill,,
Redfield Proctor and Jonathan Ross,
to whose stature Mr.. Prouty certain
ly attains. He is a man of courage,
not the fighting type good for nothing
but to fight, but the strong forceful
defender of that in which he believes
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ual struggle"
The Prouty Club of Orleans is glad
to give wide publicity to the attitude
taken by the above prominent nom
partisans. We are glad that the high
political standard held out by them
is possible of attainment in Vermont.
Their argument has no logical and
consistent answer. 1t is right. 1t is
just. 1t is indeed ideal. No one has
yet sought to answer it except to say
in faint hearted way that their ideal
cannot be attained. Such an answer
is a libel upon Vermont and her
people, for already that ideal is being
attained. We know that the rank
and file of the people of Vermont
wish to see Vermont once more oc-
cupy her rightful place of honor in
the councils of the Nation, and to
that end they desire to see G. A.
PrOuty elected a United States Sena-
tor. We do not have to cultivate
that sentiment 1t already exists.