Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-08-05
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Dillingham; Record.

how he voted on important bills and
whether he voted with Senator Aldrich,
Senator Penrose. Senator Lorimer, ETC.
The people want the facts and the
records of Senate will prove whether
he voted as his constituents desired or
not.-M orrisville Messenger.
Prouty's Turn.
Commissioner Prouty in his public
letter declared that Senator Dillingham;
has opposed all the efforts for the re-
form and control of railroads. Senator
Dillingham; comes back with a long
letter in which he shows by the records
that he has supported every measure
of railroad reform legislation that has
been before the senate. He also shows
how on one occasion he saved Prouty
from being legislated out of office. It
is now Mr.. Prouty's turn.-Bennington
Banner
Wanted 1000 Inns.
"More Wayside Inns is what the
tourists want in Vermont, says Max
l.. Powell. and he ought to know as he
is IN close touch with many of the
thousands who enter Vermont through
the Gateway to Paradise, Burlington.
Not only few big hotels like those
in Burlington, Woodstock, Manchester,
etc.. but good little hotels scattered on
the highways up and down the state fire.
quented by tourists and travelling pub
lie. The best advertisement any town
can have is good hotel, not too large
but we'll run. and adapted to the bust
ness to which it must cater, but above
all else, we'll run, with good tables and
everything scrupulOuSly clean and at
tractive,. There is room for a thou
sand more such little hotels, "Wayside
Inns. Tin Vermont and they would pay,
Messenger.
The Waning Bull Moose.
Representative E. P. Jose of John
son casts a disturbing boulder into
the serenity of the Progressive pond by
declaring that Mr.. Prouty is "Republi.
can to the core, business Worshipper,
perhaps more honest than some of
them but still on guard for the business
interests of the country"
He insists that the accused ''has nc
heart in the great big cardinal prin-
ciples of the Progressive party
whatever they are-and further insists
that "our so-called leaders are ashamed
to put up Progressive for Office be-
CAUSE IlS Inlay lIOC veal CiSdl1 IlIlSu dllI
creased trousers.
"a grimy machinist from the Win.
ooski wooden mills may be the Abra
ham Lincoln of DR.. Jackson's dreams,
insists Mr.. Jose.
All of which is impreSsively charac
teristic of the situation in the Pro
gressive' ranks, the leaders OF which
have Intellectually drummed the state
from West Berkshire to Pownal anC
from North Derby to Vernon in search
of candidates.
: There is no more coherency in tn
: Bull Moose today than there was a
the tower of Babel. On one side ar
the ''leaders'' and self-appointe(
e Greathearts of the 60 h. p. pilgrimage
They represent very small proper
: ton of the crumbling Progressiv
party. and the party itself has degen
: Grated into an army of generals with
s out enough privates and non-commis
: stoned officers to go around.
q On the other side are, the men who con
stituted the backbone and brains of h
: Progressive movement and who ar
merely waiting the announcement o
a Republican leader and platforI
d worthy of their support SO they ca
take charge of the party they belon
l. W ollI iIo@C IL WhoC IL OuSuI CoBOCs
I Political history is making very fas
these days.-Rutland Herald.
No Occasion for Regret.
g The Barre Times says:
= eff we mistake not Hon. Charles A
I Prouty regrets it already that he mad
= such an attack on Senator William P
Dillingham; when he made his most re
cent announcement that he would lik
to be United States senator from Vel
. mont.
Why should Mr.. Prouty regret max
i ing as he did clear and explicit state
/ ment of actual conditions and voicin
sentiments that are held by a larg
e proportion of Vermonters. as we'll a
e American voters generally?
r It is not fair to refer to such a state
ment as that made by Mr. Prouty
which did not deviate from truthful
ness in the slightest degree as regard
Il Mr.. Dillingham's attitude on publ
r questions. as an "attack" upon tn
senator.
u When the Standard four months az
# announced its support of Mr. Prouty fo
s the senatorship. it called attention i
F addition to Mr.. Dillingham's estimabl
" personal qualities and service alon
: certain lines, to his association wit
d the reactionary element in Congress
ID and his lack of sympathy with the Pre-
- gressive spirit Of the times.
In doing this the Standard does nc
It feel that was making any attack upo
e. Mr.. Dillingham;. nor can Mr. Prouty
A. letter. which expressed the same ide
. more in detail, be thus construed.
There is no occasion for regret
setting forth in an honest and straigh
forward manner the clearly define
issue of the present senatorial contes
70 This issue, which is not confined |
10 Vermont. but is sharply defined in v;
q rious commonwealth throughout tt
y country, is between the forces of r
a action and progress. And in this col
le nection let the Standard repeat it's TO
l mer statement:
u ''The conservative wing of the R
I'd publican party could not find a man
z better personal qualities than Mr.. Di
= bingham, and from their viewpoint