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Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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is people weresatisfied. Nor did he strain himself to securethe election of his son to the governorship.He knew the temper of his State. He knewthat any open attempt to elevate his son,contrary to the desire of the people, wouldnot onlynot succeed, but would react against himself. So when Fletcher Proctor ran forGovernor, the senator, his father, went fish-ing. I suspect that he, knowing the qualityof the boy,— fifty-odd now, but still a boyinside,— had no doubt of the result. There was opposition within the party.Percival W. Clement, the owner of The Rut-land Herald (which journal, by the way,performs a useful service to the State bymaintaining an attitude of independent ifnot always quite candid criticism of partyleaders and party measures), made the raceagainst Mr. Proctor as an independent can-didate, endorsed by the Democratic partyof the State. In the contest that followedFletcher Proctor proved himself as good acampaigner as his father. How does^it happen that the Proctors,
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WHAT S THE MATTER WITH VERMONT? father and son, hold the highest offices inVermonts gift? I asked of one of theirpolitical opponents. Brains, he replied, sententiously.And Governor Proctors a good fellow —an all-fired good fellow. It was hard to workagainst him, when you knew him, and agood deal harder to vote against him. Agood many of us did nt. Maybe that ex-plains his majority of fourteen thousand andover. Anyway, it explains the undisputedfact that his administration has so far beenthe best that Vermont has had in manyyears. Where Vermont Leads all the States At the session of the Legislature in thefall of 1906, under the leadership of Gov-ernor Proctor, Vermont, first of all theStates, followed the lead of the Federal gov-ernment in railway and pure-food legisla-tion. The railroads sent up big lobbies,equipped with all the usual arguments andinducements, and, to quote the phrases of anative, They tried their darnedest to beatthe Governors bills, but got licked at everypoint. T

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