The Van Buren press., 1868-09-11
The Election in Vermont.

t'Stcd Yesterday hy our contemporaries OF
the Gazette and Commerci0i over the clcc
ton in Vermont, we sTe hd To- bci-lr
thar owing Ia the gcn-tsNfca,fimtagsihsi
the Republican party, they had serious
doubts wlU,h,r they would he able 10
haintain themselves even in the Green
Noun,an SLATE. l'cacc their sgparcnt
surprise that they have carried il bv 4
large majority Now, winlc the friends
of Seymour and lsaiy cxpc,, to carry the
country ovcrwsCinnnglr, 4 ncycr enter
ell into their heads that there was the
slightest chance of their carrying this pc
clliar little State of Vermont. The day
of miracles il supposed To have passed
Nothing shcSt .of tina. wr,t,f o.lvert thc
hardened political sinners ofthc Green
Mountains, who never listened tO Dem
ocratic paper and who. iuCI1lstcd in pre-
iudicc and fortified in error wander mi in
error from yearto year with conspicuous
pcriinacity.
Vermont never voted hut fpronc Dem
ocratic caudidac for President at a con
tested election, and that was James Mad
iSon, fifty six years ago. She was almost
unanimously Federal, unanimously Anti
Mason, unanimously Whig. unanimous. /.
ly Know Nothing, unanimously Rcpubli-
can, or anything else that happened to be
going, provided it was not Democratic, !,
There is not a Democratic ,lailp paper
in the whole State, and very few week
lies. Almost the entire press is in the
hands OF the Republicans. There is hard
| ly the semblancc of Democratic organ
ization in the State, anc the Republican
maiorties only vary from one season To
another by the degree OF interest which
brings them to the polls The State has
as large population as New Hampshire,
yet last yearit only polled $4,000 votes,
while New Hampshire, which is closely
contested, polled 1900, or nearly twice
| rs many
In Presidential election year a far
larger proportion OF the immense STAY
at-home vote Of the Republican party is
brought out, and hence on such occasions
their large apparent gains, which are re-
ally no gains. II the Radicals derive any
satisfaction in the fact that thoy are able
to hold their own in such State as Yer
mont, where they are literally mopposcd
it would be cruel to deny them satisfac-
ton.
A TOuCHISG STREET CAR ScENE.-A
very touching incident recently occurred
in Chicago horse ear, going west on
Randolph street The ear was crowded.
Many were standing; among them an old
man of perhaps 20, whose appearance in
dicated great weariness. There were
young men sitting on either side; there
were young men and boys but no one
offered the old man n seat. Presently a
young and beautiful woman arose, and,
with winning smile, offered him her seat
He seemed bewildered, and refused, but
she insisted with so much earnestness
that he finally settled into her scat, while
she took the place where he had stood.
This proceeding created such sensation
that the conductor pulled the bell, and
kindly inquired If anybody wanted to get
ont A fat old gentleman, whose eye
sight was rather dim, deliberately took
off his spectacles, and having wiped them
carefully, put them on his nose, and said :
Wonderful! wonderful, wonderful y
No less than four gentlemen sprang from
their seats at the same moment, and Of
fered them to the lady, but she politely
declined. After the lady had left the car
ono eyo..lo",a" rosuarlsuS' that he lra,l mover
seen the like in his life, and that in all
probability she was insane Another
| said she was no doubt a strangea IN Chi
cago. The conductor was intcrrogatcd
as to whether she was frequent passcn-
ger in the cars. He replied that she was
not--that nothing of the kind had occur
red in the course of his experience as n
conductor, A youthful dandy, who had
a scat next to the lady, said, with twirl
of his moustache, that it was "an awk-
ward position for a man to be placed in, -
but he has spent his time since the event
in riding up and down in the same car,
and has offered his seat to no less than "a
elderly gentlemen. lie was likewise in
voked the muses. in poetcal ctlusion Of
~ stanzas Ito the beautiful young wo-
man which he proposes to publish. -
Chicago paper. .
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