The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-20
Yermont's Early History.

We are indebted to a correspondent of
the Lowell MASS. Citizen, for the enclosed,
which will be of special interest to many
of our readers
Passing from the long and extended
life of Governor Crafts, it might not be out
of place to revert to the memorable cam
paign of 1910, which has called forth the
foregoing. Vermont and Kentucky were re-
garded as two representative states of the
Wing party, North and South, as regards
msjorties, and it was a rival contest in
that campaign as to which should give
Harrison the largest proportional vote
The result showed for Kentucky fifty eight
thousand four huadred and eighty-nine in
total of ninety one thousand one hundred
and five votes, or, GA 10 per cent, while
Vermont gave for him thiity-two thousand
four hundred and forty votes in total of
fifty thousand tour hundred and ninety
nine, or "a 80 per cent. of the whole, thus
making herself the banner wing state by a
fraction of 1900 of one per cent. In 1914,
when Henry CLAW, a citizen of Kentucky,
was the wing candidate for president, NOT
wIihstanding the liberty party in Vermont
polled nearly four thousand votes, that
state again exceeded Kentucky in giving a
larger proportional wing majority in the to-
tai vote. Vermont remained wing state
until after 1862, as also did Kentucky, and
| with Massachusetts and Tennessee alone
cast their electoral votes for Win
| field Scott. Then followed the disruption
of the wing party, and the two rival states
| for the championship of their party, polit-
ically went in different directions. Yer
mont, upon the organization of the repub-
lican party became its banner state, which
position she has maintained for the twenty
years of its existence. Last year she gave
President Hayes forty-tour thousand and
niney.two in total OF siXty-four thousand
| four hundred and sixty votes, or over
sixty-eight per cent of her entire vote
| Kansas gave the same candidate seventy
eight thousand three hundred and twelve
in total of one hundred and twenty-four
thousand and fifty. seven, or over sixty
three per cent, and ranks next after YER
mont as republican state. Kentucky,
after the disruption of the wing party,
elected one American state ticket, but soon
attached herself to the democracy, which
party she. under the lead of henry Clay
and John j. Crittenden, had repudated at
successive elections lor generation or
| hlOiVg oud bhO BdNI
msjorites of any state against Abraham
Lincoln in 1864 and Ulysses s. Grant in
1868
"Vermont was admitted as state in
1901, and therefore did not take part in the
fret presidential election. In the twenty
two quadrennial contests In which she has
been actor she has four times virtually de-
cided the election, or held the balance OF
power. In 1790-07 the total electoral vote
was seventy one for John Adams, and sixty
eight for Thomas Jefferson. Vermont cast
her four votes, all she was entitled to, for
the former. Had she decided for the lat
ter he would have had seventy-two votes
to sixty.sev,n for Adams. Ia 10000, by
defect in the original constitution, the
election for president was thrown into the
house of representatives, the contestants
being Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr,
who had been supported by the same party
for president and vice-president, and re.
ceiyed an equal number In the electoral
colleges. Thirty.five balletings were held
without an election, when, on the next trial,
Vermont for the first time voted for Jeffer-
son by her congressional delegation, and he
was elected. The next contest In which
she held 30 important part was that OF
lS44-5, when the election again went to