St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-09-11

Lake MemphTemagOg Will be dried
up and Mount Killington's grand
proportions made level as the plains.
Il New York Press.
What is This limiting at?
Instead of from 10000 to 5000
majority, from 2 900 to ] 5, OOOmay
be expected. This is new expert
ence for Vermont The reasons for
this we do not care to discuss. We
had our say early in the campaign
and have nothing further to add. We
believe, however, that the reduced re-
publican vote in the state is due to
home causes rather than to any lack
of sympathy or agreement with the
national republican principles and
the avowed policy of the Harrison
administration st. Adams Mes
senger.
Why the Democrats Rejoice.
The democrats in Vermont have
been celebrating" not because they
carried the state at the recent cleo
ton, but because they might have
been licked worse and in more places
than they were. One cannot help
admiring those Vermont democrats !;
they are so thankful for small favOrs,
they are such fine opponents of the
spirit of Mark Tapley. Let Vermont
go republican by any less majority
than twenty odd thousand and they
feel warranted in organizing a haley
on and vociferous spree.-[ New York
Tribune.
A Sharp Rebuke.
1t would be easy to make too much
of the republican losses in Vermont.
Our democratic contemporaries can
be trusted to show how readily the
story of the returns lends itself to
partisan eXaggeratiOn. But, even
when reduced to its true bearings,
the unprecedented and unbalanced
decrease in the republican vote claims
good deal of political significance.
When the republicans show a loss of
80 per cent, while the democrats have
made gam of 2 per cent, IN cOmpar-
1sOn with their respective votes at
the last state election, it must be held
that Vermont has administered a
sharp rebuke to the dominant party.
= Boston Herald
WoOdbury's Friends not to Blame.
The reason for this small republic
can vote was an absolute lack of in
terest. The contest for the guberna-
tOrial nomination was heated one,
but at its close the republicans seemed
to lose all interest. On the other
hand the democrats have been awake
and have really displayed more life
and animation than for many years
The result can in no wise be charged
to any antagOnism on the part of the
friends of the defeated gubernatorial
candidate in the republican conven-
ton. In fact the ticket received a
better support in Col. Woodbury's
own county, which was solid for him
In the convention, than it did in the
successful candidates home county.
= Burlington Clipper.
Onife Il Differences.
This, concerning the Vermont cleo
ton and its Importance and signifi-
canoe, is from the Boston Journal
just before election day:
vermont republicans understand
the significance of malorities, and
when grave questions are pending it
is their wont to evince their recogni-
ton of them by rolling up heavier
majority than ordinary"
And this, on the same subject, is
from the Boston Journal just after
election day in Vermont:
There were no general issues at
stake, and in consequence the vote
was q very light one. The apparent
decrease, therefore, in the republican
majority has no political signifi-
canoe"
1t shows that it makes difference
which way you look at q thing
New York Sun.
Bears the Chill of Defeat.
Such fall as this indicates popular
dissatisfaction in a way not to be
mistaken, and this appears after &C
cepting the explanations offered by
local republicans. AS test of the
popularity of the administra ton,
and an Endorsement of the party pol
icy as embodied in the acts of Reed
and the measures fathered by Nc
kinley and Lodge, such a result as
this amounts to a serious protest on
the part of people of Vermont. 1t
shows that the drift of popular opin-
ion sets against the powers that be,
after admitting that local causes I'M
dOubtcdly helped the democrats
somewhat. The fact that so many
Vermont republicans, men who have
looked on that party as representing
the sum of political virtue, this year
manifested degree of apathy re-
markable for them even in an off
year" is full of import. Prejudice
was too strong to quite permit a
vote for a democrat, but discomfort
and disgust with the conduct of af-
fairs at Washington was strong
enough to keep one in four of the
men who voted the republican ticket
polls on Tuesday. In truth this
victory" ia Vermont is of the kind
that bears in it more than sugges-
ton of the chill of defeat.-[Spring-
field Republican.
Col. WoOdbury's Indiscreet Friends.
1t was generally supposed that the
contest between the friends of Col.
Woodbury. and Mr.. Page closed June
10, when Mr.. Page received the NOM
inatiOn for Governor. But in this 1t
seems that so far as MOrriStOwn and
Eden are concerned the supposition
was erroneous. Not one iOta of its
intensity was allowed to abate 1t
was carried into the appointment of
delegates to the county convention
by these towns, and they have pushed
the fight vigorously ever since, and
while Mr.. Page has been bestowing
his best efforts since the state conven-
ton in investigat ing the needs of the
state so far as they relate to the sew
eraI state institutions, all except one
of which he has visited since the con-