Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-08
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WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPT. g. 1890,
The Vermont Election.

The Vermont Election.
The Philadelphia Press announces
that the election in Vermont has settled
the presidential question. Most persons
will consider the Press too sanguine.
Vermont has never before been considered
to have much influence in national poll
tics. 1t is conceded in advance to the
Republican party, which now seems to
have carried it by three thousand more
majority than it had four years ago.
That increase is not significant Of in
creased Republican strength outside of
Vermont. We are not sure whether it
would not have been cause for discourage
ment to bave Democratic increase in a
state that is getting SO far behind its Sis
ter states in growth as is Vermont. The
census of this year shows that Vermont's s
energetic citizens are leaving her. She
does not have the natural increase of her
population and an immigrant is hardly
ever seen within her borders. The Re-
publican party is welcome to her and
all that she has, and every legitimate
hope they can derive from the success
with which they have this year got out
their vote. The money and effort it has
cost them would have been better ex-
pended where their strength is more in
doubt; unless, indeed, their organs can
succeed in making anybody believe that
rs Vermont goes SO will 90. the Union.
We think that they will not generally be
SO bold as the Press in thus tax
ing the credulity of their readers.
That journal acts on the idea
that there is never anything lost in max
ing big claim but it will he embar-
rassed when it comes to the Maine cleo
tiOn, i'm giving that result a due degree
of significance, if it should happen to he
in favor of its party, rs the probabilities
arc that it will be. If Republican Yer
mont settles the presidential election,
Republican Maine will not get up enough
enthusiasm for decent hurrah; and
there would be danger in view of this
double triumph that the political friends
OftheP Press in Indiana would sit down and
let the active Democrats walk away with
the state. This will hardly do, because
everybody does attribute good deal of
significance to the Indiana result and
the national Democracy will be cOnsid-
erably exercised if we are beaten there.
AS a question of policy it is certainly in
Il s,,k khn 10 I,nn
Vermont is away back in the woods and
Maine is only on the border. If the Re-
publicans get safely out of both they will
not be wise i'm making too much noise.
Pennsylvania and New York will need
all their attention and they had better
not let the boys think that Vermont has
done the presidential business for all of
us.
If we were rs Sanguine and foolish as
the Press we might claim the Arkansas
result as deciding that for the presidency,
since the Democratic majority there is
said to he nearly twice that of the Re
publicans in Vermont, and its increase
over other years is very much greater.
The real truth about the matter is that
the presidency will not be decided this
year by anything but the November re-
suit, and neither party can feel any
reasonable assurance of it until New
York and Pennsylvania are heard from.
Indiana only can have any influence over
these states, and that will not he decisive
by any means. The contest will be fought
out to the last day, and there will he on
the Democratic side ut least confident
hope of the vote of Pennsylvania and
New York whatever any other state
may meantime say.
The Democracy of Pennsylvania need
not have any fears that the efficient or
ganization of the party i'm this state and
I'LL the necessary work of the campaign