The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-09

throughout the Union two months
hence. 1t is day for ejoicing-and
for resolving TO work hard right up to
the closing of the polls on November
3.-New York Tribune.
THE TRIUMPH IN VERMONT.
Vermont has started the tidal wave
that is going to engulf the cause of
anarchy and reputation. That unex-
ampled republican majority of more
than $4,000 means that all that has
been said of the weakness and hopeless
ness of the free silver propaganda is
true. The farmers and the wage-earn-
ers of the North will have none of it,
They know that cheap dollars mean
cheap men. They see that the Chi
cago platform threatens the happiness
of their homes as well as the credit of
the nation. They are not to BE- caught
by the arts of shallow demagogues.
The blacksmith and the plowman have
no intention of becoming the poor
dupes of bonanza kings and political
adventures. Vermont republicans are
as loyal and united as of old, and thou
sands OF democrats-all honor to them
have had the courage to put country
before party and help to swell this
mighty majority, the news of which
will bring exultation to the friends of
sound money in every state in the re-
public. As the first popular verdict on
the issues of the campaign, this Ver-
mont election possesses extraordinary
significance, which is heightened by
the extraordinary nature of the victory.
There could be no more powerful slim
illus TO dropping business, no better
steadler OF public confidence, than this
demonstration to the country and the
world OF the intelligence, the firm bal.
ance and the keen moral perceptions of
the American eople.-Boston Journal.
VERMONT SPEAKS.
Vermont has spoken and in thunder
tones. The returns from yesterdays
election show that the state has re-
pudiated reputation by a majority
which is astonishing. 1t is impossible
to say now what figure will be reached,
but it will undoubtedly exceed any vote
the Green Mountain State has ever
rolled up in an election for governor
in a presidential year. This is what
the Vermont election indicates. The
great gains in the republican vote and
falling off in the democratic vote prove
that the people of the Green Mountain
State have sized up the Chicago ticket
and platform accurately. They esti-
mated the danger to the country from
the success of the free silver heresy
and the attack upon law aud order, and
they improved the opportunity yester-
days election gave them of putting the
seal of their condemnation emphati-
cally on both. The value of this Yer
mont verdict cannot be Overestimated.
1t is the voice of the sturdy, common
sense OF the American people which in
November will swell into a whirlwind.
Put the VermOnters at the front and
keep the column closed up" said Gen
eral Sedgwick at an important crisis in
the War Of the Rebellion. Vermont
was at the front yesterday, and now let
the rest of the country close up the col
umn and defeat dishonesty by a major
ity so overwhelming that it will never
raise its head again. Mr.. E. j. Phelds
and his courageous democratic boilers
in Vermont did much to swell yester-
days magnificent majority in that state.
No more hopeful sign in American life
has appeared in years than is presented
by the bolt of democrats like Mr..
Phelps, who have put country, honor
and honesty above party.-Philadelphia
Press.
VERMONT POINTS THE WAY.
If the world is to end to-day, as
Prophet Stutzke insists, there is one
man in it who won't have 90 around
begging the mountains to fall on him.
Never since the day of Enceladus has
there been an example of such COM
plete prostration as that presented to-
day by William j. Bryan of Nebraska.
Mount Mansfield and the Cancels
Hump have fallen upon him and ground
him to powder. With great fanfare
of trumpets, Bryan invaded the
enemy's country" three weeks ago.
Yesterday he left the enemy's coun-
try" followed last night by the re-
verberation of the first shot of the cam
paign, fired by Vermont's embattled
farmers, and heard, like that of the
guns of Lexington, around the world.
Forty thousand majority against ma
tional dishonorl Such is the reply of
the farmers of Vermont to all of Bry-
ans specious utterances. They have
been suffering from hard times, as have
all of us. Many of them have mort
want to pay off. But when a glib
orator from the prairies promises relief
by reputation, the honest men of the
state of Ethan Allen and Seth Warner
thunder, Mol And the farm
ers did it. Vermont is the typical agri-
cultural state of the East. The demo-
cratic tariff has been felt in that state
more depressingly than in many others
by reason of Canadian competition at
their very doors, encouraged and aided
by the inequalities of the Cleveland
Wilson tariff. Tons of silver literature,
containing every possible alluring APP
peal to the agrarian instinct, were
spread broadcast through the mountain
counties, and scattered like the leaves
in Vallombrosa through the fertile val
leys of the Otter and the Winooski, in
the expectation of cutting down the re-
publican vote. And this is Vermont's
answer: Forty thousand majority