The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-09-02
VERMONT.

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But that is not the point.
Vermont has gone more overwhelm-
ingly Republican than ever before. That
is the point
The returns are not all in yet Vermont
woods and they have not yet all been
heard from.
But we have heard enough to know
that Q) the total vote is extraordinarily
large; and GU that tho Republican major
ity has increased about 33 per cent.
The former result shows that there were
few stay-at-homes ana the latter that tre-
mendous number OF Democrats voted the
Republican ticket.
Vermont gave HARRISON 1892 votes in
1892 Republican plurality of 2l,667
That was the year of the Democratic tidal
wave.
In 1894 there was q Republican tidal
wave of unprecedented proportions and
Vermont gave to the Republican candi-
date for governor az, 663 votes, a plurality
Of 2s, 52i. That was high water mark
then, but the tide rose higher yesterday,
probably by some 10, 900 votes.
National issues prevailed in yesterdays
election. Vermont, 1t may be recalled. is
the State whose Democratic national com
mitteeman declared rather earlier than any
of his fellows in the East that whatever
the platform at Chicago the Dem mocratic or
ganization everywhere ought 10 support
the party candidates. On the other hand.
1t is the State Of ex-Minister PHELPS. stall
wsrt of stalwat Democrats, VINO declared
that although yesterdays election was
for State officers, no patriot, no Demo
crat OF right mind and conviction could
afford to vote for governor nominated
by State convention that endorsed the
Democratic national platform, which
the Vermont Dem ocrats had done.
The silver Democracy, the Populists
and the Prohibitionists were all repre-
sented in yesterdays contest, put all
these parties seemed TO have been quite
generally deserted that tho voters of
Vermont might register their convictions
in favor of sound money and protection.
Vermont is state of farmers, OF back
wooosmen as we may say. Although the
returns are not complete enough for an
alysis it Is evident that the silver craze
has not fooled the Vermont farm ers.
1t is an axiom Of politics that from any
one community tho sentiments OF the
whole people may be fairly estimated, ir-
respective OF the prevailing politics of that
community. wnen the strong Demo-
cratic districts adjacent to Tammany
Hall, the first to be reported on the
night of the election In New York in
1894, returned greatly decreased Demo.
cratic majority no further figures were
needed to convince the astutc hgurer
that New York city and New York
State had gone overwhelmingly Repu bli-
can. The fact that Vermont go amaz-
ingly increased her Repu hIican ma jority
yesterday demonstrates sufficiently that a
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all over the country. There is no
questioning that view. II cannot
be explained away. All political pre-
cedent justfies the conclusion. Strongly
Democratic states will go Democratic in
November. The four or ave silver states
formerly Repu bl,can may perhaps give
their electoral vote to BRYAN, also, but
with the exception of these, Republican
gains from Maine to California arc as
sured by the sign of Vermont and it is
as certain as sunrise that there are today
no doubtful states-that every doubtful
state is going Republican in November.
That does not mean that Repub lican
efforts may bo abandoned. Republican
success in November must be over
whelming. A mere ordinary victory will
not settle the silver question but will only
invite IL to rise sgain and threaten the
nation for successive periods. The silver
heresy must be crushed. stamped out by a
Republican vote like that OF 1894, when
the whole country rose up ana repudia-
ted the present Democratic admin istra.
tion.
1T is pleasing to know that in his trav-
els Mayor MoGuINNEss always has an eye
to the public good. While on visit to