Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-09-04
VERMONT ELECTION.
Republican state Ticket Elected by the
Usual N aIOrity.
JUDGE POLAND DEFEATED.

The State election on Tuesday resulted
in Republican victory with about the
usual majority. The vote was light, except
in localities where local questions served
to bring out the masses. Returns from
Il3 towns show the following figures;
Peck, 2O,OO4; Bingham, S5,Ol.
A good proof of the popularity of Mr..
Bingham, the democratic candidate for
governor, where he is best known, is shown
by the fact that his town of Stowe, which
in 1872 cast but 1l3 democratic votes to 3lS
republican, gave him, Tuesday, $50 votes
to SO for Judge Peck.
The Senate just escapes besng unani
mously republican, like that elected in
1872, by the choice of one democrat in
Franklin County, where G. X. Leach of
Fletcher was defeated by Victor Atwood of
st. Adams. The Senate will therefore
stand 20 republicans to one democrat.
The bitterest personal qaarrel of the
campaign was over the candidacy OF Albert
Clarke of the st. Adams Messenger, "A re-
publican, for senator. In ii was involved
the Outstanding hostility of the Adver-
tiser and Messenger, and, incidentally, the
opposition ofthe latter paper to the Central
Vermont railroad management. Clarke,
however, was elected.
In many towns the boiling spirit mani
tested itself in the choice of representa-
lives; several strongly republican towns
elected democratic representatives, through
coalition movements, and the republican
majority in the lower house will not lie so
large as ii was, two years ago, when they
had PIG out Of 24S representatives.
The house will be body of considerable
ability, II. II. Powers of Morristown, Park
Davis of st. Adams, w. w. Grant of Bar
ton, l.. Munson of Manchester, VIM. w.
Lynde OF Marlboro, and Pitt w. Hyde of
Castleton, being among those elected.
The election passed of quietly at Bur
lington, with the result curiously mixed.
The city gives the republican State tick ct
90 majority and a heavy plurality for the
regular republican ticket for state senators,
but elected b. b. Smalley, son Of United
States Judge Smalley, democrat, rep
! resentative by SO majority. This is the
irst time a democrat has been elected rep
resentatve from Burlington since 1853.
Mr.. Smalley being clerk Of the United
States circuit and district courts, the valid
| ity of this election is called in question on
| the ground that the state constitution for
bids any one holding an office under the
authority of Congress from being a mem
Der of the Legislature.
The interesting feature in the election oi
senators for Chittenden county is the choice
| of w. w. Henry. He had an important
| rival for the nomination in Henry Ballard,
a well-known politician, and after Henry
| got the nomination, Ballard took the stump
for the temperance ticket nominated at Is
sex Junction, but without avail.
In Rutland Ex-Governor Page, whose
nomination as representative was supposed
to he equivalent to an election, has been
defeated and n. +. Page, democrat, chosen
In Middlebury the regular nominee is de-
feated and n. +. Page, Democrat, chosen
| In Mddlebury the regular nominee is de
feated and another Republican, j. NJ. Slade
Jr., chosen. Bennington elected l.. p
Norton, rep. Arlington, J. X. Batchelder
st. Johnsbury, L. D. Blodgett; Spring
field, G. II. Hubbard; Woodstock, II
Boynton Brandon, S. L. Goodel North
field, L. G. Pierce, DEM; Royalton, +. b
Winslow.
CoNGREssMEN.