The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-10-15
SOME OUTSIDE VIEWS
Special Writer in the Boston Tran
script Writes OF Sensational
Situation


Adams on the evening Of Septembe
30th TO an audience of less than fiv'
hundred people. In the course Of tina
address he referred TO the Boston Ev
ening Transcript as an enterprisin,
newspaper, for the reason that ii gav,
space to speech of his made in tn,
City Of Boston on the subject of rail
road legislation.
Mr.. Prouty is evidently a great ad,
mirer and staunch friend of the
Transcript, but how about the Tran
scripts admiration for Mr.. Prouty
In its issue Of October 5, 1914, that
paper contained the following article
from the pen of Mr.. w. B. Brigham
the transcripts special correspondent
at Washington. Mr.. Brigham is a res
ident of Washington. He knows and
is known by both Mr.. Dillingham; and
Mr.. Prouty Mr.. Brigham's estimate
Of the two men is interesting at this
time to the voters Of Vermont.
"One of the most mysterious politi-
cal contests in the country is being
waged in Vermont over the United
States senatorship; not mysterious in
point of outcome, for no doubt Sen
ator William P. Dillingham; will be
reelected handsomely, but puzzling
as to why Charles A. Prouty, for
many years the New England member
of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, sholud have entered the field
against him. Why Judge Prouty, a
great authority in the field of railroad
law and administration and now chief
of the newly-created bureau whose
duty it is to ascertain the physical
value of all the railroad properties in
the country-why Judge Prouty, the
ascetic, the student, the the admins
traitor, should have been attracted to
the field of politics is conundrum
that no one in Washington, at least,
can answer Yet for years the judge
has successfully concealed an ambi-
ton to be a United States senator, and
now he has chosen to enter the lists
against not only veteran legislator
but one Of the most popular men the
Green Mountain State has produced.
Judge PrOuty's Versatility
"The Judge is nothing if not COM
prehensive in his new political associ-
ations. He was given the Progressive
and Prohibition nominations and went
after the Democratic, but the Demo
Gratis were unwilling that their hollow
honors should go to a Republican, so
they named their own men, The
Judge has been little confusing as to
his own politics, for last spring after
a meeting of Vermont Progressives in
Boston, when it was proposed that he
should be their candidate, he came out
with a statement that if he ran at all
it would be as a Republican. Later at
a meeting in Burlington, which he at
tended, Judge Prouty announced his
to be named for a senator
as a Progressive, and when someone
asked him if he would be willing to
accept the Republican nomination also
he replied No Next day some prac-
.ical politician evidently having
1udged him meantime, the judge con-
,ributed further statement to the
yayety of the campaign in which ne
explained that what he meant by his
statement of the evening before was
hat he was trying to run as a nom
PARTISAN and that, therefore, the NOM
nations of any and all parties would
,e agreeable.
Anyway, the judge has been given
wo minor nominations, but if he
hould happen to be elected to the
senate he would represent no party at
II or all parties together, according
o how you look at it.
Dillingham; and immigration
Whatever the political complexion
4 Judge Prouty, the Non-Partisan
'routy Club of Orleans appears to be
arrying some of the heavy burdens
+ his campaign, if one may Judge
rom the solmen questions it has pro-
ounded in his behalf. Here is a
ample: Has any important immigra-
ion measure for which you have been
ponsor ever become law
This ominous query, addressed 10
he author of the Dillingham; immi-
ration bill, probably has its roots in
he fact that President William n.
aft vetoed the Dillingham; bill and I
hereby prevented it becoming law.
his measure undoubtedly is the most /
.ientifc document of its kind ever ;
,mpiled and Taft's objection to it
as on account of its literary test. {
he same bill has passed the Demo |
ratio House, but it is held up in the s
enate, with President Wilson side
epping the literacy test. The point
the joke is not, however, what the a
n-Partisan Prouty Club Of Orleans G
n r. Al. /. l..