Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-08-25
REPUBLICAN APATHY IN VERMONT.
The Democrats Hopeful ot Cutting Down
the Usunl Majority.

The Democrats Hopeful ot Cutting Down
the Usual Majority.
MIDDLEBURY, VI, August 24-With the
Vermont State election just two week away
the Republican party in the State is still
out Of joint and Achilles Edmunds still
sulks in his tent in Burlington. 1t Of course
was not to be expected that Senator Ed
munds could enter very heartily into the
work of trying to elect to the Presidency the
man whom, four years ago, he dubbed
"Gould's attorney" yet the distn'
guished Senator is bitter partisan
and it was scarcely to be antici-
pated that he would hold himself entirely
aloof from the Blaine campaign and let the
great magnet from the Pine Tree State
sink or swim without his aid Yet that is
exactly what George F Edmunds is doing,
and pretty soon we may expect to hear Hon.
Steve Elkins and the Tribune brandingshim
as Pharisee, dude and Free Trader.
These have become the fsvorive designa-
tons Of Republicans who refuse the swallow
Blaine with any possible amount of sugar
coating. Mr.. Elkns and the Tribune will
discover in a couple of weeks that the Re-
publican party Of Vermont is thickly
sprinkled with Pharisees, dudes and Free
Traders this year.
A Poor Apology,
The canvass in the State this year mas
been the poorest apology for vigorous and
aggressive campaign ever known in Yer
mont in the summer preceding a Presiden-
tial election The Republican State Com
mittee and the Republican papers have
from time to time, put forth announcements
| of what was going to be done later on, but
the announcements were about all that ever
came it. \ short time ago it was given
out that the Republicans were going to
"whoop it up lively during the last two
weeks of the canvass, but we have now
struck into thai period Of time and still we
can see no signs of the lively and aggressive
campaign which we we're promised. There
| is as much difference between the spiritleSs
and slipshod canvass now in progress and
| the brisk and fierce campaigns Of 1880 and
1876 as there is between midnight and
! morning.
Got a Cue.
The Democratic managers seem to have
have taken their cue from the Republicans,
and for the most part are letting things
drift whittier they will Before the assemb-
ling of the National Convention the State
Committee announced through the organ of
it's chairman that the committee would make
no formal campaign in the State for the rea-
son that the size Of the Republican majority
in Vermont was of 70 more consequence than
the size Of the Democratic majority in Geor-
gia or Kentucky Fct Lyman W. Reding-
ion, the Democratic candidate for Govern.
or, has been hard at work upon the stump
and has put in some good licks for the par
ty in different parts Of the State. Mr. Red
ington is bright young man, who makes a
good candidate and, if he could be elected,
would make a good Governor. Chairman
Atkins, of the State Committee, has also
done some excellent work upon the stump
and few other orators of local repute have
done effective service for the ticket. But
this is all Nothing in the nature of gen
eral campaign has or will be made in the
State
To sum Up.
The Republicans will gets comparatively
light vote out for their candidates in Sep
tember, as things look now, and will lose
four or FIVE thousand Of their majority.
They have lost large number of votes and
gained small number of dynamiters and
cranks, who are far too few to make up for
the loss In November good many Re-
publicans who will not trouble themselves
to vote at all at the State election will come
out to the polls and cast their ballots for
Cleveland or St. John. Blanes majority
will be under 10000.