The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-09
What the Newspapers Say.
THE sIGNIFICANcE OF 1T.
WILL INFUsE NEW ENERGY.


apart from all other issues.-New York
World.
WILL INFUsE NEW ENERGY.
Yesterdays victory will infuse new
energy and hope into the already con-
fident ranks of he supporters of the
national honor and credit, aud help
nightly to prepare the way for an
overwhelming defeat of the popocratic
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Republican.
CRITERION OF PUBLIC SENTIMENT.
While the Vermont election is I'M
doubtedly decided discouragem ent to
the Bryan canvass, and sign that the
tide is setting strongly against free
coinage, Names vote will nevertheless
be better criterion of public senti-
ment. No other New England state
has in the past been 80 susceptible to
the charms of cheap money. Nearly
thirty years ago, when the greenback
craze was at its height, Maine was
greatly affected, and had many advo-
Gates of an irredeemable paper cur
rency.-Troy Press.
VERMONT AS A POLITICAL BAROMETER.
The size of the plurality received by
the republican candidate for governor
in presidential years has for twenty
five years been accepted as indicating
the result of the succeeding national
election. For many years there has
been large republican plurality for
governor. In 1884 and 1892 the repub
lican plurality dropped off considerably,
and in the latter year was less than
10000. These two years were both
great democratic years, and the great
decrease in the republican vote for
governor of Vermont fairly indicated
the election of President Cleveland
New York Herald.
CARRY THE NEWS TO BRYAN.
1t was the farmers who did it, Mr..
Bryan. Never forget that. This, in
its interests, is the type and epitome of
all the agricultural states. Through
Canadian competition, it is in poorer
plight than most of them. 1t has been
fed on "silver literature" for year.
1t has been reading your speeches
avidly for two months. 1t has heard
every specious appeal to the agrarian
instinct which rang 80 silvery on the
ears of the other farmers of your old
Nebraska district before they, too,
found you. Having heard, it has con-
demned and consigned you and your
doctrines to depth of political perdi-
ton never explored before within its
boundaries by man born of woman.
Your cause lies on the watery floor of
old Champlain, with Mansfield piled
upon its head.-New York Press.
Vital TEccON
The vital lesson of the Vermont cleo
ton is the evidence it gives of the re-
sourcefulness of the republican national
machine. No point is too small for it
to cover, no task too great for its capac-
ity. Its means are ample, and its con-
fidence, as is usual with the bearers of
full purses, unbounded. The demo-
Gratis, unable, for lack of the sinews of
war, to meet the enemy at every point,
must pick the states in which the battle
can be fought best with the least am
munition, and deliver their attacks
there. Vermont was not one of these
states. Maine, which votes four days
hence, is not. But, from the returns
in these invariably republican states,
democrats may gain some idea of how
fierce is the contest they have invited.
Let US not underestimate the signif-
canoe of Vermont's election. 1t is two
fold. 1t indicates surprising republi-
can activity and entire absence of dem
ocratic effort.-New York Journal Gree
Silver Dem.)
GREAT BLOW TO SILVER.
The returns from the Vermont cleo
ton point to republican and sound
money victory of phenomenal and in
spring proportions. There is only one
Interpretation to be put upon this re.
suit. 1t means that the free-silver
propaganda has not made the slightest
progress among the rank and file in the
East, while thousands of democrats
have been alienated from their own
party by the Chicago departure. If
strong in the agricultural sections. As
an English bimetallist said the other
day, this movement is of all things an
agrarian movement. But Vermont,
the most distinctively agricultural state
in New England, testifies in its vote of
yesterday that this silver business is not
even an agrarian movement in this
part of the country. And if not that,
1t has no place to lay its head here
abouts. The fight in the nation at
large is by no means as yet won. But
yesterdays victory will infuse new
energy and hope into the already con-
fdent ranks of the supporters of the
national honor and credit, and help
nightly to prepare the way for an
overwhelming defeat of the popocratic
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Republican.
BEGINNING OF THE END.
The first shot in the national cam
paign for honest money was fired yes
terday by Vermont, and it will be heard
round the world. There has been much
talk for many weeks about the inroeds
the free silver heresy was making among
the farmers of the country. Hitherto
there has been nothing but assertions
and guesses to go upon; now solid
basis of fact is offered. Vermont is to
an exceptionally large extent an agri-
cultural state, and the election for gov.
ernOr and other state officers held vea-