Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-11-10
Massachusetts.
The SheepIess shepherd OF Leicester
Gets "A Commission to Retire to His
own Sheepfold and Stay There!


own Shcepfold and Stay There!
The election in the old Bay state was
for a full state ticket, executive council
and legislature. There were four tickets
in the field: Republican, Democratic, Pro-
hibition and Populist.
Returns for the entire state show that
Mr., Greenhalge's plurality is 5,691. In
1892 VIM. f. Russell had a plurality of
1884 The total vote of this year stands:
Banks, Prohibition, 1885; Russell, Dem
ocrat, 1916, ,7S5; Greenhalge, Republican,
l92,476. In 1892 the vote stood: Ham
lin (Pro), 1907; Halle (Rep), 1873, ,S43;
Russell Dem), 1S6377. 1t will be seen
that Mr.. Greenhalge gained S633 votes
over Mr.. Halle, while j. f. Russell fell
-. .5Q2 below Gov. Russell. The size of
the vote as comp ired with 1891, 1890 and
1889 is interesting.
The Democrats get positively nothing
out Of the state to console them. The full
Republican state ticket is elected; the
council stands Republicans, Democrat; ;
the house will give Republican majority
of not far from 1870 against a Republican
majority of So in the house of 1898; the
senate will have "a Republican members
out of 40.
How the MassRchusetts Cities Voted.
A Boston despatch of Wednesday morn
| ing said: The Republican landslide which
struck Massachusetts, was wholly uneX-
pected by the Democrats. They made up
| their minds Monday night that they were
beaten, but they looked for a close vote
! The Republicans were also agreeably sur
prisedsby the tremendous plurality rolled
up for Greenhalge for governor. The fight
was made over that office. The election
of tie rest of the Republican state ticket
was conceded before the campaign opened.
The Democratic candidate, John +. Rus
sell, expected to get the farmer vote and
the full Democratic vote in the cities and
manufacturing centres. He failed in both.
Boston gave him an awful knock down.
The Democrats counted on a plurality of
II, 900 in that city. The figures were 9747
instead, in vote nearly as big as that cast
in last years presidential election, when
Russell had a plurality of 14,58S, This is
a net Republican gain of 474l.
On top of that setback came the news
from the manufacturing centres. In New
Bedford John +. Russell's vote was 79l
less than that cast for William E. Russell
last year. The net Republican gain in that
big manufacturing city was 563. In North
Adams there was a net Republican gain OF
ODO Ill Il lOldl NOlc VI EDOOs ut Guy VI
Newton pulled down Gov Russelrs plural
ity from 1871 to 1868, giving net Repub
lican gain of 442. In Amesbury there was
a gain of 2l0, and in Danvers l54.
Brookline, the home of Mugwumpism
gave Greenhalge 1868 and Russell only
S04, as against 1893 for Russell last year
and 9S2 for Halle. Cambridge, the HON,
of Gov. Russell, gave net Republican gair
of 1900. So it was all over the state
Salem gave a Republican gain of 43l, Fitch
burg 800, Lawrence $50, Fall River abou
1900.
These returns piled in so rapidly anC
with such emphatic gains for the Republi
can candidate that the result of the election
was known before o'clock. By that timt
the Democrats who were waiting for re-
turns in Washington street became yer!
scarce.
Mr.. Greenhalge's own city of Lowell paiC
him splendid personal tribute, changing
a plurality of 7S1 for VIM. E. Russell las