St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-09-16
THE PRESS ON THE ELECTION.
Republicans Ahead.
Boston Herald.

Republicans Ahead.
Boston Herald.
Up in Vermont Tuesday the repub-
licans turned the stakebOat first and
came in several lengths ahead. The
wind was light.
Never was any Opposition.
Boston Record.
A wear from now it will require aft
davits to support the theory that there
has been an anti Edmunds movement
in Vermont.
BOssism Not a Success.
Springfield Republican.
Light vote for republicans in Ver-
mont and very small victory for the
party, but large one for Mr.. Edmunds.
AS Boss Atkins made his fight on the
senator, the result would indicate that
his bossism is not a success.
A Question for Atkins.
Boston Herald.
Speaking of the Vermont election,
Hiram Atkins says: "The democrats
are elated, and the republicans depress-
ed" AS the democratic citation was
due to the fact that they got almost
one third of the vote in the towns
heard from, it can be understood; but
Mr.. Atkins ought to tell us why the
republicans are depressed, since their
majority is bigger than the democratic
vote.
Never Any Doubt About 1t.
Boston Journal
There could not have been doubt
in the minds of intelligent men about
the election of legislature which
insures the reelection of Senator Ed
munds, so that one is surprised 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 70 defeat him.
Extremely Doubtful.
st. Adams Messenger.
The claim of the morning papers,
that everything has gone for Edmunds,
will be found to be a mistake. Enough
is known already to make the re-elec
ton of the delinquent and irascible
senator extremely doubtful. The
opinions of neither the Free Press or
the Rutland Herald are sustained by
their figures. Both papers will ascer
tain in due time that the people have
no further use for buncOmbe and boast
ing. These matters must now stand
on their own merits.
Vermont Returns Her Answer.
Boston Advertiser.
Mr.. Edmunds' victory, for so it is safe
to regard it, helps the country at large
by returning senator whose place
Vermont could not fill. 1t is well
deserved mark of continued confidence
in man who has been villanOusly at
tackled. 1t is, better than all, an ans
wer from Vermont that she has formed
her own Judgment, and acted thereon,
concerning a political canvass, based,
as was that against Mr.. Edmunds, up !
on mere personal Misrepresentation
and abuse.
Hiram COnfesses Disappointment.
Montpelier Argus.
The result of the election last Tues
day cannot fail to be gratifying to dem
Ocrats so far as the state vote is con-
cerned, but we confess that it is not all
we had hoped for as to members of the
legislature. The republican majority
for the state ticket has been materially
reduced; but instead of having nearly
or quite doubled the number of mem
beers of the Legislature we had in 1884,
the gains have not more than offset the
losses, if they have that.
Sound Republican.
Rural Vermonter.
If George +. Edmunds is not a sound
then what can be said of
the immense army of voters of our
state who for years have represented
the very ideal of republican principles
and who on Tuesday flOcked to the
polls to support the man whom they
Justly admireP The time is past when
a mercenary press and the trickery of
hirelings can create political sentiment
in Vermont.
Mud ThrOwers May Retire.
WOOdstoek Standard
The failure of the anti Edmunds ,
is complete and crushing.
member elected here and there, in
the aggregate not enough to amount
TO anything, among them no man of
and a reduced democratic 1
is all there is to show
for the summers turmoil. 1t was a {
great and for that matter a disgraceful I
noise, with no backing of votes. 1t {
las Disguised everybody by wilful
and shameless re-
gard of facts. 1t is repudiated and {
upon by an overwhelming ma G