Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-09-17
PRESS COMMENTS
On the Result in Vermont.

There isn't enough left of che Atkins
Elkins combination which took the job to
defeat Senator Edmunds TO hold an in
quest on.
boston Transcript
Vermont is too sensible to retire one of
her most distinguished citizens at the de
mand of any politician or set of polti-
clans.
[Boston Advertiser.1
Mr. Edmunds's victory helps the coun-
try at large by returning a senator whose
place Vermont could not fill. 1t is u we'll
deserved mark of continued confidence in
a man who has been villainously attacked
1t is better than all, an answer from Yer
mont that she has formed her own judg-
ment, and acted thereon, concerning a
political canvass, based, as was that
against Mr. Edmunds, upon mere personal
Misrepresentation and abuse.
springfield Republican,
The result of the Vermont election jus
titles the confidence which the RCDubl-
cun has felt from the first assault upon
Senator Edmunds that the good sense of
the people and their just appreciation of
their great representative would be abund-
antly expressed at the polls. The people
of Vermont may be backwoods men, but
they are not easily fooled.
TROY Times.
The next time the democrats attempt to
"revolutionize" republican state, they
will tackle one where the opposition ma
jority is smaller than in Vermont.
The little men who were going to defeat
Senator Edmunds ought to let themselves
out as microscopic specimens.
[Boston Traveller.l
The returns indicate republican ma
jority of about 10000, and the election of
a Legislature standing ebout three to one
in favor of giving Senator Edmunds an
other term in the seat he so ably fills 1t
was pretty good days work for the ban
ner republican state.
IN. Y. Commercial Advertscr.1
In two land races yesterday the head
most horsemen rode alone. These were
Senator Edmunds and Representative
Morrison, each of whom passed the win
ning post on an easy canter, with no rivals
in sight. Mr.. Morrison. in his way, is
quite as necessary an adjuct of the house
of representatives as Mr.. Edmunds is of
the senate. Both he and Mr. Edmunds
belong to a class of men much too small
in this country, a class that dedicate them
selves seriously to legislation, and by long
and conscientious service acquire prac
tical familiarity with its machinery.
[Boston Journal
The republicans of Vermont have again
shown the country that they remain faith
ful to republican ideas. The majority
Will he a little less than the average, but
sufficiently large to prove that the repub-
lican organization is as effective aud re
publicans are as Jealous as in the past.
The republicans have won several demo
cratic strOngholds and have held all that
| they had before. There could not have
been "a doubt in the minds of intelligent
men about the election of a legislature
which would insure the reelection of
| 4 IN Sn hlt nt,a ic chi tnriSa II
that any attempt was made to compass
his defeat. The fact that nine-tenths of
the republican members of the legisla-
ture are in favor of Mr.. Edmunds shows
the extent of the failure of those who
proposed to defeat HIM. The result is
gratifying in the extreme to republicans
throughout the country.
New York Mail and Express.
Among the members chosen to the leg
islature are Judge Luke p. Poland, long Il
Congressman, Gen. +. H. Ripley and 9th
er gentlemen of great weight and stand
ing in the community. The Vermont leg
slature Will be a strong body of men at
its next session. The consent of promi-
nent and influential men to serve as legis-
lators indicates healthy state of politi-
cal feeling-a feeling such as ought to eX-
list i'll every state of the Union.
So far as can now be learned, the third
and fourth parties have not elected IA sin
gle candidate for any office in. the state.
The Vermont republicans are mostly
strong temperance men, and have kept
stringent restrictive liquor laws on the
statute books of the state for years. The
third party is without mission there.
Prohibition cannot easily be made an issue
by itself i'll state where the republican
party has done as much for the temper
ance cause as it has done in Vermont.
lBoston Record.l
A Vpnr fran, pnyy Z will ra1t,ira an;Io
Wits to support the theory that there has
been an anti-Edmunds movement in Yer
mont.
tWashin gton Critic
Mr.. Edmunds will be almost unani-
mOusly returned to the United States
Senate. The opposition presents Il pitable
spectacle of innocuous desuetude.
Philadelphia Inquirer.l
Vermont seems to know statesman
when she has one.
Woodstock Standard
The failure of the anti Edmunds cam
paign is complete and crushing a mem
Der elected here and there, in the aggre-
gate not enough to amount to anything
among them no man of prominence and
Il reduced democratic representation, is
all there is to show for the summers tur-
mol. 1t was great and for that matter
ulSSraceIul noise, with no backing OF
votes 1t has dlsgusted everybody by
wilful misrepresentation and shame
less regard of facts. 1t is repudiated and
stamped upon by an overwhelming ma
iority of the republicans of Vermont The
chief scribblers in the campaign of mud
may now retire and wash their soiled
| lienen.
[B 1ston Herald and Poutney Journal
| The Vermont democrats don't seem to
| have even had their Shurtletlt.
Vermont's majority runs quite up to the
average, over $4,000. Many republicans
thought it would fall off because of the
| prohibition vote and a feeling of apathy
| They now see their mistake. Vermont
republicanism is "the star which never
sets. - Boston journal.
Mr. Edmunds has withstnod Blaine to
! his face as Paul withstood Peter, and has
come out victor in his own State. He
has heard the lion roar, but has not by
any means been devoured. On the con