Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-05-13
TERMS
MIR. PROUTY.

We are not undertaking Mr.. Prouty S
ability nor the great work he has done.
But he is no more fitted to assume
the work of senator than scores of
other able sons OF Vermont.-Groton
Times.
What a perfectly preposterous state
ment to make. We challenge the
Times to name half score of Yer
monters who are as well fitted to take
up the work of United States sena-
tor as Mr.. Prouty. In fact we chal-
lenge the Times to name five or even
two and then we will take one from
that.
To be sure Mr.. Prouty has not
occupied seat in the senate or spoken
from the floor of that body but he has
been in Washington much of the time
for many years. He has been before
committees, bills have been submitted
to him before they were introduced,
congressman and senators have sought
his advice, and even the presidents
have summoned him to the White
and sections of at least one presiden
tial message were Mr.. Prouty's own
words, the words of the president
himself being thrown out after listen
ing to Mr. Prouty. The Times must be
very ignorant indeed of Mr.. Prouty's
ability and work to make such state
ments.
Mr. Prouty will not need to be in
troduced to the senators at Washington
but rather they to him. Mr.. Prouty
will need no time to become acquainted
with the problems of the nation or the
problems of any section Of the nation.
He has visited all parts Of the country
many times, knows each sections ques-
tions, knows their big men, knows the
people as close student of men does
and is intimately acquainted with the
causes and effects of national Iegisla-
ton upon business, corporations and
those dependent upon labor for their
livelihood.
Mr.. Prouty sees and comprehends
beyond, above and below the average
man without his natural ability, fitness
and training. Mr.. Prouty would
scarcely need to become acquainted
with the formalities of congress more
than he now is for he is man with
whom precedent and ruts find little
place. A man who differed essentially
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sent for by Mr.. Roosevelt and told he
was right, and from whom that presi-
dent then asked advice and accepted it
from that day on, is not held back in
his desires for correct legislation by
the formalities of congress.
In opening its editorial favoring Mr.
Dillingham; the Times says:
t'Since when has the prestige of
Vermont in congress begun to decline?"
1t might be difficult to state at just
what hour Vermont's senatorial pres
tige began to fall but when Lorimer
and Penrose and other former senate
leaders began to fall into disrepute
and it was found that Vermont s
senators were almost invariably
voting with them, Vermont began to
lose prestige in the senate. Without
entering into discussion of the rights
and wrongs Of the motives of the above
named gentlemen or their followers il
is enough to say that they did not and
do not represent the new political
atmosphere of today. The very fact
that the Prouty movement has spread
so rapidly and so strongly is proof
enough that Mr.. Dillingham; has lost
step with the times
The Monitor admires and respect:
Mr.. Dillingha but the Monitor be-
lieves Mr.. Prouty interprets it's ow,
feeling as to the necessities of thu
times, and possesses that vigorous
nature which puts belief into actor
and action into results.