The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-15
Election Notes.

NEARLY one-third of the voters on the
voting list in Burlington did not vote.
ATHENS elected representative at four
o'clock Wednesday morning on the fortieth
ballot.
GOSHEN, in Addison county, is the banner
republican town. 1t did not cast demo-
cratic vote.
MONTPELIER will have an upright, capable
and useful representative in j. G.. Hough-
ton.-Free Press.
OUT of the total republican vote in Bethel
Edmunds received Is, and 1877 were anti
Edmunds
In Addison county, Nash, regular repub-
lican, is elected senator by POI majority over
Stevens, boiling republican.
THE veteran legislator, Rodney G. Abel
of West Haven, is elected to the house again
for about the seventeenth time.
IT is impossible to learn the preferences
of all the representatives chosen, as many of
them received no caucus instruction-Re-
former.
GRANVILLE goes unrepresented this year.
They had eighteen ballots for representa-
tive, and adjourned at half-past four A. NJ.
Wednesday.
FRANKLIN COUNTY sends two brothers
one of them, John f. Draper of Sheldon, as
senator, and Wilson Draper of the same
town as representative.
was elected to represent Milton on the
fourteenth ballot, the election extending
into Wednesday afternoon.
RoXBURY, democratic on the state ticket,
re-elects Hon. u. S. Stanton, man of ca
pacty and integrity, as well as experience
in legislative atfairs.-Free Press.
The vote of Morristown was as follows:
II. c. Fisk, republican, 234; d. G, Spaulding,
democrat, 81; G. w. Wilder, prohibition, 80;
scattering, 5-Mr. Fisk S majority over all, 81.
MAJOR VALENTINES majority for senator
was 264 in his own town of Bennington.
Both that and the Bennington county ma
jorty of 1000 is unprecedented in recent
years.
THE extra-prohibitionists in Franklin
county have obtained five per cent of the
votes cast-rather poor showing for their
effort, but they have done better than most
other counties.
THE school question has been fighting
issue in many sections, and good many
representatives will go to Montpelier
pledged to oppose legislation in favor of the
town system of schools Windsor journal.
RUTLAND COUNTY elects the regular repub-
lican county ticket, but Captain Sheldon
scooped Rutland and a number of other
towns 1t is bad policy to attempt to de-
prive town of its established privileges.
Messenger.
CHARLES III. LANE, representative-elect of
Cornwall, is son of Hon. Henry Lane,
who has for many years been prominent in
public life. The member-elect served sew
eral terms as one of the pages in the house,
and will now be one of the best informed
members Rutidnd Herdid.
ONE of the tricks of election day was the
preparation of an exact fac SiiaUe of the
democratic state ticket with the name of
Colonel Fuller substituted for that of Mr..
Meldon, the regular candidate for lieutenant
Hot, 81
way into the boX.-BrdttleborO PhWnir.
RUTLAND COUNTY complete gives Ormsbee
4,763 votes, which is 700 more than were
given to Governor Barstow four years ago
and pretty well up to the vote of the presi-
dental year; Shurteff, 2,111, which is 400
less than in 1882 and 700 less than in 1884 ;
Smith, greenback, 424; Seeley, pro ion,
10.
The MESSENGER having stated that A.
Messer, the principal mugwump of the
Rural TernlOnter, was defeated for repre-
sentative in the town of Rochester, the Rut-
land Herdld denied the statement. A Roch-
ester correspondent writes: Mr.. Messer
did run Mr.. John Campbell, the repre-
sentative-elect, received 1866 votes; Mr.
Messer AZ; Frank Mosher, o; Grin Harvey
10, and L. G. Chaffee, 33. Mr.. Campbell is
understood to be an Edmunds man. He is
anti-town system of schools"
THE Herald and Ne,os says of the Ran
dolph representatives Not word against
Mr.. Lombard personally was heard, but
some republicans were afraid to trust him
on the town school system and Edmunds
question. His position on both is highly
honorable. On the former he says that
most of the towns in the state having voted
upon II last spring and overwhelmingly re-
Jected it, II is not wise to change the pres
ent law and he would vote against so doing
On the Edmunds question he positively de-
| clines to pledge himself"
1T seems somewhat remarkable, after the
declaration of the Rutland Herdid that only
five anti-Edmunds representatives had
been elected to the legislature that its edi-
TOR should take pains to address note to
each representative in the state to give his
standing on the question If Editor Clarke
has confidence in his figures, why this exhi-
bition OF alarm? The anxiety of the Herald