Birmingham state herald., 1896-09-04
TT WAS EXPECTED.


 fact that the Chicago platform is get ting in it's work. When that document was made and promulgated every one posted on the politics of the country knew that it meant increased republican maiorities in states like Vermont.
 The New Englanders are and long have been advocates of the single gold stand ard without regard to the party with which they affiliated. On that as on some other questions, the Vermont dem o3rat has always been as soun1ly repub- lican as the Vermont republican.
 When the last democratic convention served notice on the heretofore New
 England adherents to the democratic party that the democratic party was go- ing to give the country the benefit of genuine democratic principles, one of which is bimetallism, if called by the | people te administer the governmental af- fairs of this country, 1t served notice that | in Vermont the republican majority | would be greatly increased. Not only l Vermont, but other New England states l are going the same way.
 | The republican increase in Vermont i represents republican decrease iii the | middle, north, northwestern and western l states. The 100 per cent increase in the | republican majority in Vermont is a good 1 omen. It shows that the people are in | the fight and fully appreciate the impor- | tance of the issue.
 Former Vermont democrats have vot- ed the republican ticket. The question, why did they do it, then arises. It is evident that they did so because they
 believe the single gold standard will op- crate to their advantage. If that be the case with the heretofore Vermont demo- crats, why are we expected to believe that heretofore Ohio, Illinois and Iowa republicans are going to stand up and vote the republican ticket against their own interest? Are not the people of those states just as likely to vote for the system most likely to benefit them as
 are the Vermonters? We think so.
 The democrats expect to carry the
 country in November because there are
 more voters whose best interests will be subserved by the adoption of an inde- pendent American system of finance than there are voters whom the gold | standard will benefit.
 The man who says the Vermonter votes for his own interest and then ar gues from the result in Vermont that the | democrats cannot expect to gain strength | in Ohio discredits seriously the intelli- gence of the Ohio voter.
 If the western, northwestern and mid | dle north republicans are as intelligent as the heretofore Vermont democrats l there will be as heavy percentage of loss | to the republican party outside of New 1 England in November as there will be republican gain in New England and | that would mean overwhelming defeat l to the republican party.
 We think the result in Vermont fore l It establishes the fact that the masses | have seen the point. and no one can doubt l what the result will be if the people come to full understanding of the issue. l The only surprising thing about the vote l in Vermont is that it was not more near l ly unanimously republican than 1t was | The democrats outside of the state made | no effort whatever to carry the state. Not a single speaker was sent there. 1 The so-called democracy in the state l adopted a republican platform and re- 1 fused to indorse the Chicago platform | and nominees. There are few democrats l in Vermont, and of course the state went republican by large majority. If Hanna
 and his crowd could get only S5,OO0 ma l jority in Vermont, where they had no op- | position. they had as we'll take the mort l is going to be elected.