Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1880-09-16
VERMONT.
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st. Joe Herald.
A few days ago, and previous to the
Vermont election, the New York Her
aid said:
The Vermont Republicans are san
guine that they Will hold their own
The proper criterion for estimating the
result is their majority in the Presiden-
tial election of 1915, the last occasion
which brought out full vote. The
majority of Hayes over Tilden was
q, 1873, and in the State election which
preceded the Republican majority was
about the same-name'y. 23,7S5. If
they should fall considerably short of
this to-day, after the vigorous canvass
that has been made, their loss will be
interpreted as a proof that General
Hancock's brilliant record as soldier
and a patriot is reducing Republican
voters from their party allegiance, and
if it is potent to produce such an effect
in Vermont it may be equally potent
in the doubtful States. But if, on the
other hand. the returns of to-day's cleo
ton shall show that General Hancock
has made no impression, or next to
none, on the Republicans of the Green
Mountain State, it will be evident that
he has nothing to rely on but the prop
er voting strength of the unrecruited
Democratic party.
That was before the election, and
the Republican majority is larger than
it was -four years ago. The placing of
Hancock at the head of the ticket has
not drawn of any Republican votes
the party has not held its own and
Hancock is a weaker candidate than
Tilden.
That is what we have believed all
along. Tilden was a statesman, hehad
barrel" he was a great manager and
the Independents believed in '76 that
he was reallya reformer, as he claimed
to be. Hence his large vote every
where. Hancock, on the other hand,
is not a manager, not statesman. not
reformer. He is only puppet in the
hands of the rebel managers. Oregon
and Vermont have voted. Maine will
follow next week. IT will then be seen
that the nomination of Hancock was a
very weak one. He gains no Republi-
can, no Independent strength, and does
not poll his full party vote.
The New York Sun said before the
election:
/. Death has been at work among the
veterans; but scattered among the
Green Mountains there still survive
several thousand men who fought I'M
der Hancock or in near neighbOrhood
to him.
And it thought they would vote for
him, but the Union soldiers are not for
Hancock in any part of the country.
They think he was good General, but
they know that it was the rebels who
nominated him, and that facts enough.
The Eoston Advertiser, Republican,
spoke as follows before the Vermont
election:
1t was openly claimed thai if Han
cock was nom. mated the usual Repub-
lican majority in Vermont would be
reduced by thousands, and after Han
cock was nominated there were Demo-
Gratis who talked as if he would win
10000 men from the Republican ranks.
That was in the early days of the Han
cock boom. There is no such talk now,
and has been none since the campaign
was fairly opened. HancOck's name
has proved powerleSS to strengthen the
Democratic party in the State; on the
other hand, the spectacle of the solid
south advancing to take possession of
the national government has aroused
the people of that old State as they
have not been aroused since, in 1864,
the Democratic party declared the war
for the Union failure, and, with its
real purposes masked by the nominal
ton of another Union soldier, attempt
ed to obtain power. The challenge Of
fered by the Democracy was promptly
accepted.
Those were wise and truthful words.
Every Northern State will cast its vote
for Garfield. The end is seen in the
beginning.