News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-13
Press Comments.


Boston Herald
The Populist party up in Vermont
doesn't appear To have grown much.
The sound common sense of Yankee
dom is too much for it.
Troy, n. Y, Times.
Vermont has outdone the most
sanguine hopes of the party outside
OF the State, and her voice in SeDtem-
her is a prophecy of what is going to
happen in November, wherever a free
ballot and "A fair count are permitted.
Utica, n. Y, Herald.
The emphasis with which Vermont
has recorded its vote is an encour-
agemenJ to Republicans all over the
country to continue the fight for pro-
lection with renewed vigor. 1t shows
that the farmer, the manufacturer,
and the wage Garner, irrespective of
party, are determined this fall to
nave another change.
Albany Journal
Vermont has spoken; and it's de-
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New Jersey and Pennsylvania and
other States of the northeast in
which the people have had an oppor-
tunity to manifest their feeling since
the beginning of the tariff struggle
at Washington last December.
New York Press.
Vermont has spoken, and her ver-
diet is worthy of her fame as a gal
liant State, ever in the forefront of
the Republican ranks and never fall
tering in the Republican cause. YER
mont has given the Cleveland-British
cause its Ticonderoga, and New York
will follow with another Saratoga.
All hail to the State of Ethan Allen
and the Green Mountain Boys
Burlington Daily News.
The extraordinary uprising in YER
mont on Tuesday means that the
country is tired of Democratic rule
and Democratic methods. If the
Vermont vote can be taken as an in
dex the next Congress will be Repub-
lican and the strange wave which
swept over the country two years
ago will have spent itself. 1t smust
not be expected, however, that all
the States will show the same pro-
portionate change as Vermont. This
State has always been strongly for
protection and now she has walked
up to rebuke the party office trade.
Springfield Republican.
Popular dissatisfaction with the
delays and chickering's of the Demo-
cratic majority at Washington in
acting upon vital public questions
has unquestionablY been intense all
over the country; and it must have
been particularly strong in Vermont,
where the high tariff policy has the
deepest root in popular support, and
the wool tariff policy in particular
has been most strongly supported.
The result shows, nevertheless, that
the Democrats must do wonders in
the way of iustifying popular conf
dence in that party if they are to
escape an overwhelming defeat in the
Congressional elections of November.
Brattleboro Phoenix.
Whenever any national issue has
been at stake Vermont has never
failed to respond by leading the way
in the fall elections with a majority
which furnished an index of the SEN
timent of northern voters. This year
is no exception. Not since 1872 has
the vote of the State had greater
significance. There is no need to dis
cuss the reasons which have prompt
ed the people of the State to give~a
majority of $4,000 in round num-
beis to the Republican ticket. The
size of the Republican voteWas some
thing to be expected. The only sur
prise of the election is the almost uni
yersal indifference shown by the Yer
mont Democrats, who have always
heretofore taken their medicine, no
matter how drastic. But even YER
mont Democracy cannot counte-
nance or endorse the result of two
years of Democratic misrule.
Boston Journal
Vermont is a sturdy Republican
commonwealth, but the size of its
Republican plurality is variable, and
as it's State election comes two
months in advance of those of most
of the other States, the result has al
ways been curiOusly watched for by
persons who are eager to observe the
tendency of the political barometer.
Vermont is a State of well-informed
and thoughtful men, who are proba-
bly, far more familiar with national
affairs than the bulk of our urban
population. They read, study and
decide for themselves. 1t was their
privilege to render the first verdict
upon the Thimblerig tariff act this
year, and no community in the land
could be found better qualified to
perform that-duty. Vermonts hand
some Republican plurality, exceeding
the average figure of "off years." is
an emphatic warning of the coming
of the November avalanche.
New York Sun.
The Democratic candidate for Gov