Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-09-14
The Election in Vermont.

This little New England State has just
held its annual election for Governor,
Congressman and a Legislature. Of
course it voted Republican, largely Re
publican. It is the strongest Republican
State in the Union, giving 1900 votes
for Grant in 1868 to 1900 for Seymour.
The Radicals there for many years have
been regularly three to one in numbers.
Before that it was Whig, it was anti
Mason, it was Federalist in its politics.
Its people seem only to look to the label
upon the ticket which they vote, and if
it is not Democratic they put it into the
box. 1t voted against the author of the
Declaration of American independence,
Thomas Jefferson, when he ran for Pres
ident in 1900. 1t supported the author
of the Alien and Sedition Laws, John
Adams, whose Administration fined Que
of its own Congressman one thousand
dollars, and imprisoned him, for news
paper article disparaging the President.
1t supported James Madison for Presi-
| dent in 1872, because the war which his
| Administration had declared against
great Britain was extremely profitable
! to its people, by the facilities which it
afforded to the smuggling with Canada,
| by which they in a measure supplied
/ the British army with things that they
needed. Having a large land border
with Canada, it could not be prevented.
! In 1S2Sit was against General Andrew
! Jackson for President, and in 1882 its
narrOw-minded, one-idea and implaca-
BILE people voted for the anti-MasOnic
candidate for office, being the only State
where a majority conceived they had
the slightest right to bring Masonry into
politics in that manner. Since 1885,
now thirty-three years ago, it has not
elected a single Democrat to Congress.
In 1858, by some singular accident in de-
fault the choice by the people, DEM
Ocrat, Mr.. Robinson, was elected GOven-
or by the Legislature, being the only one
with the exception of G.. P. Van Ness,
which she has had in forty-five years.
The bitter preiudices of the fathers have
been transmitted to their sons. The for
mer hated the Democracy of Jefferson
and jacksonville latter hate the Dem
ocracy of our times. Their intolerance
renders them insensible to argument.
The Republican party could not possi-
bly, do anything that would deprive
: them Of the support of the State of Yer
mont. 1t is one of the little triumphs IN
which they bear full sway. So little
change is there among its people, Sc
steadfast have they become in their pol
= itics, that an election there is hardly
regarded with any more interest than il
would be in Cheviot in this county. il
indicates nething, and has not the
slightest influence upon public affairs
The votes might as well counted up il
advance of the election as afterward
, One Nigh suppose that from mere mo-
I notony its inhabitants would become
tired Of their political votes, but they
seem to rush to the polls with fresh alac
rity, on each first Tuesday in Septembel
! to cast them. 1t might, perhaps, bt
, revolutionized if the energy and enter
prise of the State did not regularly EN-
% crate from it to the West. Stephen A
. se.-'as. z enc Of its sons, always praiseG
. Doug 4..-, :: "a enjgrate from il
it as the best Stauo -
the whole county, Gin. Eng.