Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-09-07
VermOnt'S Protest !
"IThe Grandest Victory on Rec
ord, with the Least Noise"
A Vanishing Minority in the Next
House.
ONLY NINE DEMOCRATS.
Full Returns from all but 6 of 244
TOWnS-All Cities and Large
Towns Elect Republican
Representatives.

"It was the grandest victory with the
least noise," said Senator Proctor yester-
day, in speaking of the result of the
State election. This epigrammatic ut
terance of VermOnt's distinguished junior
Senator states correctly the character of
the contest so successfully waged at the
polls by the freemen of Vermont in be-
half of Republican candidates and prin.
ciples. The majority of some 5000 for
Woodbury. and Mansur was secured with,
out the usual campaign speeches and
rallies. No work has been done except
that of the newspaper press, supple
mented by the unbiased verdict of the
intelligence of the Vermont freemen.
A condition and not a theory, in the
shape of Democratic legislation, con-
fronted the voters of the State. The Re-
publican nominees of the State ticket
were exceptionally popular men, and
they represented sterling Republican
principles Outside of the Democratic
Federal Officeholders, no apparent inter
est was taken in the election by the rank
and file of the Democratic party, who
are mostly Protectionists and utterly OPP
posed to the free trade doctrine of Gro
NOl OlCNClduNl anu OHO DCIllOCl dUlO
House. 1t is certain that many Demo-
Gratis voted the Republican State ticket,
especially in Burlington, Bennington,
and other manufacturing towns.
Chairman Merrill is right when he
says: "The issues of the campaign
were clearly presented by the press of
the State and country, and the freemen
of the State, being intelligent readers
and thinkers, were able to grasp the sit
uatiOn without resorting to the usual
campaign methods. The State Commit
tee made very thorough review of the
State and endeavOred to impress upon
the voters their patriotic duty on cleo
ton day. The result is extremely graft
flying and fully sustains the figures of
the canvass made by the committee.
The result regard as a vigorous protest
by the voters against the Cleveland Ad-
ministration and its suicidal policies.
The majority fully comes up to my ex-
pectations. In no election during the
twelve years | have been on the State
Committee has there been greater in
terest shown than in the election this
year. The Republican party was favored
with most excellent candidates, which
greatly helped the tickets. The party is
in splendid shape for the Presidential
campaign of 1896"
The New York Press voices the situa-
ton, editorially, yesterday: "The re-
turns from the Vermont election are
more and more glorious. Without a
canvass, without any effort to bring out
voters, and without the expenditure of
money, the Republicans have gained a
victory unprecedented In any year of a
merely State election. They have rolled
up a majority of probably 10000 for
Governor-elect Woodbury., elected the
Hon. III. Henry Powers and the Hon.
William w. Grout to Congress by in
creased majorities, swept the State SEN
ate clean of the Democracy and secured
an overwhelming majority in the House.
1t is an uprising of the people, unexam-
pied since the days when Southern trea-
son challenged Northern loyalty to a
duel for the Nations life, 1t is grand;
overwhelming, irresistible evidence of
the spirit that has been aroused in the
Northern people by the Democratic at
tempt to ruin the industries and degrade
the labor of the North. 1t is the first
gun fired in this autumn's campaign for
protection at home and the National
honor abroad, and is a fitting, emphatic
and stunning answer to the party of per-
tidy and dishOnor, of Cleveland hypoc-
risy. Southern malignity and British
free trade"
The Rutland Herald, which has now re-
| ceived practically complete returns from
the State election, only five or six small
towns being missing, and these returns
are really official as they are furnished
by the town clerks, says: "The few
missing towns are too small to affect the
general result materially, and if we al
low them the same vote they cast in
1888, Woodbury's total vote is 42.9OS:
Smiths, 14,660; all others, 1,O22.
This gives Woodbury. a majority of
27,2l6, and plurality of 2S,2iS. Com
pared with 1890, the nearest off wear.
this is Republican gain of 9,446, and a
Democratic loss of 1880, while ali others
show loss of 1893. Compared with 1892.
it is Republican gain of 8 ,71S, a Demo-
cratic loss os 1850, while the loss of all
others is 62S.
THE total vote is 5S,59O-an increase
of 4, ,423 over that of 1888.
''The Republican vote this year is a
little over % per cent, or nearly the
three fourths of the total vote. In 1883 il
was about 81 per cent. In 1890 it was
| about 64 per cent.
"Woodbury's majority exceeds Pages
by 1908, and Fuller's by 9,2O2.
mot over nine Democrats have been
elected to the House."
ELECTION NOTES.
The returns give so few Democrats
elected to the House that "half dozen'
Is the headline of an exchange. We
must take off one glastonbury, and
add one Dorse0, to our list of Benninr-
ton county representatives given Tues
day. In justice, however, to Mr.. Matte
son OF Glastonbury, who is a Republi-
can, it is fair to add that he was elected
! by Democratic voters