Show THE T THE E LATE SENATOR PROCTOR A great many kind things are being said said about the late Senator Redfield t Proctor of Vermont One writer goes so 80 far tar as to clas i him as a iI a high type of at the best that New England can prot pro produce t duce dult and adds that his name belongs to the shining roll roU of other her great sons We do not believe bellee Senator Proctor Is entitled to any a such rating He was wasp never ever p during all ll his public career of at any great benefit to the nation His name is Identified with no important legislation or with any great move movement movement ment for the public good From Prom 1867 1567 until the time of or his death mare than forty years Senator Proctor Proc Proctor Proctor tor was vas almost continuously an office officeholder officeholder f holder And when he died he left a avast aast avast vast ast estate to be distributed among his heirs heir The truth is that Senator Proc Proctor Proctor Proctor tor looked out for himself first always There Is hardly a government building In this country that does not contain marble from his quarries in Vermont Iii In many contracts in most of them In fact Vermont marble is specified And Ad AndA A Vermont ermont marble means Proctor marble We Ye see no occasion for eulogies of ot Senator Redfield Proctor We see see no Justification for classing among New v ew greatest sons He does not measure mea ure within a mile of the real realI New dew ew England giants I |