The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-26
CALLS DILLING-
HAM HOPELESS
REACTIONARY"
Charles A. Prouty Attacked vermont's
Senior Senator Severely in Address
at St. Johnsbury Last
Evening.

st. Johnsbury, Aug. 26.-Charles A
Prouty scored United States Senator w
P. Dillingham; severely in an address be.
fore the local Nom Partisan Prouty club
in Music hall last evening, saying in
part;
Senator Dillingham; is by nature and
| by association hopeless resctionary.
He belongs to that band of senators. in
the ascendant when he entered the Sen.
ate. which for many years delivered over
that body to the dictates of the inter-
ests. Most of these men have disap-
peared from public life, sometimes be-
cause retired by their constituents, some.
times retiring voluntarily because they
understood that their day had gone, |
recently stated that these men, incud-
ing Senator Dillingham;. had opposed the
measure of railroad legislation which +
had advocated and which had been in
large measure adopted.
"Mr. Dillingham; refers to certain votes
of his in refutation of the statement
The contest which finally resulted in
the passage of the Hepburn bill was
the longest and most bitterly waged
in recent times. was in that fight from
start to finish and believe | know who
was Tor me and WHO against me. Sena-
tor Dillingham; was against me. Upon
some future occasion when there is sum.
cient time / will tell that story. To-
night / simply call attention to this-In
every instance to which Mr. Dillingham;
refers he voted with Senator Elkins, who
was eonfessedly the arch conspirator
against all effective railroad regulation.
If those votes prove him to be in sym
pathy with those measures, they prove
BY the same token that Mr. Elkins was
in sympathy with them, which is an alb
surdity.
Il said that these men with whom
Senator Dillingham; uniformly acted op.
posed these measures until further OPP
position would have been political sui
eide. The Hepburn bill passed the House
by vote of 346 to 7. II passed the
Senate II to 3. After Is years the time
had come when further opposition was
political suicide. The fact that sena
tor finally votes for a particular bill BY
no means shows that he has not been
antagonistic to the principle of the en-
LET Mr. Dillingham; point the people |
Of Vermont to some one instance when |
he advocated or championed these meas
nres of reform. do not say that !
in attempting TO retain Senator Lorimer |
as member of that body he acted from |
corrupt motives; but ! do say that Yer
mont should not be represented in that |
place by man of that men
.al habit which uniformly leads to the |
formation of such conclusnions. The
most essential thing to-day in a public
iervant is that his disposition, which
.olors all his acts and finally controls (
hem, shall be right
1T may be that a majority Of the
yoters of VerrSont think as Mr.. Dilling
lam does. 1t may be they are not in
with this modern uplift tend
ncy--with this effort to elevate society
md benefit humanity. II they are not
hen he ought to be returned, for he
would fairly represent the majority. II
he fact be otherwise, as | believe it is,
hen be ought not to be returned. But,
ay our opponents, admitting that Mr..
Dillingham; ought not to be returned,
till we are not proceeding to defeat
i'm in the proper way. We are pirates
pon the sea of politics and ought to be
cuttled and sunk at sight"