The Brattleboro Daily Reformer

Senator Page Should Retire.
(Randolph Herald.)
The Bennington Banner, in the course of an editorial assailing the tendency toward federal centralization and bureaucracy, takes occasion to say that it will support Representative Frank L. Greene as successor to Senator Carroll S. Page next year, on account of his convictions and activity in behalf of state and local self-government, holding this to be the pressing issue of the hour. The Banner acts characteristically, which means that it speaks the editor's mind and purpose, regardless of minor considerations.
No one knows yet whether Senator Page will run again or whether if he does Mr. Greene will oppose him. The senator's health is quite impaired, to the extent that he has deemed it best to spend most of the summer at his Vermont home recuperating. He is said to have benefited much thereby. At his advanced age, 78 years, it is a question worthy of serious consideration by the voters whether he should be commissioned for another six-year term. Both of our Vermont senators are far along in the seventies. Mtwage especially has apparently passed the zenith of his powers. He has been long honored and no feeling of disappointment should come to him if he were to voluntarily step aside in favor of a younger man who holds promise of growth. It would be a mark of good judgment and common sense, which has always been Senator Page's strong trait. In the event of a contest, many who have supported him in the past would feel that under present conditions they could not do so, though it would be a source of personal regret from which they would like to be spared.