The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-21

than in 1858, while the voting population
of the state had increased from sixty-eight
thousand five hundred to seventy thousand,
SO that there were twenty-five thousand
voters who absonted themselves from the
polls. Comparing this vote, with 1885, and
allowing the non-voting citizens TO be d.
vided among the republicans and demo-
cia,s in the proportion either Of the vote of
that year, or the vote of 1860, We find that
there had been no appreciate change in the
proportion of votes between these years
that is, that the democrats still retain about
three-eighths of the voting population of
the state, the actual proportion of the vote
being almost exactly five-sixteenths.
We come now to 1869, the year frem
which the democracy delight to take their
departure, VIXEN Boosting of their immense
gains-and what do We find? Why, that
the democrats polcd only 1000 votes out
of an entire vote of 80 ,302, the republican
vote being 20,534. What does this ndi-
cate, a loss Of democratic voters? An in
crease of republican voters? Not at all
We find not only that over thirty.seven
tbousand voters are absent from the polls,
but that the republican vote is less than in
any year since 1858, and nearly forty. five
hundred less than in 1856. If there had
been an actual decrease in democratic
strength, we should look for an increased
xr,,rl,1ipor h,,t i,,e q, ,,t O., 1
a decreased one and decreased total vote.
Tnc conclusion is irresistible that there
were 40 many democratic voters in the
state as at Any time, but that they neglected
10 vote
This is demonstrated when we look at
the vote for 1868 for we find that while
the total vote was increased nearly eight
thousand votes, the republican vote was
decreased three hundred and fifteen votes,
and the democratic vote run up from four
thousand to neatly twelve thousand, an in
crease Of nearly eight thousand-7917-
votes. In 1861 the democratic vote in.
creased to ~ ,G31, but az there was, also,
an increase IN the republican vote, there
was, of coursc, al increased total vote-thC
democratic vote being tritle less thar
seven-siXteenth Of the total vote.
In 1865, there 10 again great falling of
in the vote, the democratic vote going
down to cighty-eight hundrcd-a decrease
of e-qumter-and the republicans de
creasing their vote nearly five thousand, Oh
about one-eighth, while there were thirty
six thousan1,or about onc-half of the voters
absent from the polls.
From 1865 to 1872, the democratic vot,
varied from II ,292 in 1866, to 1903 il
| 1872, while tie number of absent voter
varied from tventy-seven thousand In tn,
former year to tweniy-tour thousand in thu
latter year-showing that with voters
showing themselves at the polls, there wa
a greater or less increase Of democratic
strength.
Passing by the intervening years, which
| show like fluctuations, we come to 1876
with total vote of G5, G92, and demo
| cratic vote of 20,9S5. So that it appears
| that the democratic vote was about seven
| twenty seconds of the entire vote or abou
the same a, it was in 1858, 1859, ard 1865
bu. less propoitionately than it was in 1876;
and 1857. These figures serve TO show
that opinion, in Vermont, has undergone
no particular. change since 1856 that dem
| ocrat3 and their sons have remained demo
Gratis, while republicans and their sons hay,
renamed repubicans-an our every da,
observation confirms this, for nearly all o
us can count on our fingers the change
| which have been made either way.