The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-02
Republican Majority in the State the Heaviest Ever Known in Its History ---It Will Be Near-
 Iy 38,O00.
NATIONAL HONOR UPHELD
MAGNIFICENT MEDICATION OF RE.
 PUBLICAN PRINCIPLES.

Last Presidential Election the Republican
 Majority Was Only Rising 19,OOO-For l the Past Three Presidential Elections iii Has Only Averaged 22, ,0OO-The Widest
 Predictions More Than verifed-Insii- 1 cations That Thousands of Democrats
 Deserted Their Ticket-Gains in Every l City, Town and Village in the state-- There Will Not Be More Than a Dozen
 Democrats in the Legisfature--Hon. E. | J. Phelps' Letter Evidently Potent Factor-Grea Rejoicing Throughout the | Green Mountain State.
 White River Junction, Sept. 1.--Tha state election to-day was favored with excellent weather and the total vote was largely in excess of that cast four years ago and the republican majority is increased beyond the hopes of the most sanguine members of that party being figured on a percentage basis aa something like 37,00O against 17,956 in 1892. The latest returns show increased gains for the republicans in the legis- lature although the returns are not yet complete. The indications are that In total of PA members of the lower housenot more than dozen will be democrats The senate will be com posed entirely of republicans.
 Returns from 150 towns give Grout. rep, 3,SS3; Jackson, dem., 10,214: Bat tell, pop. 498; Whittemore pro, 462. Grout's plurality 26,6669; majority over all 25,709. The same towns in 1892 gave Fuller, rep, 26,964: Smalley, dem., 1S,- 623; all others 1,223. Republican gain | in these towns 9,s19, or 33 per cent, whereas democratic vote shows a loss of 3,409, or 25 per cent. The combined populist prohibitionist and scattering votes this year is less than in 1892. | Boston, Sept. 1-Returns from the Vermont election are slow and meagre. The few already received show largely increased republican gains and much larger total vote than four years ago. Lamoille county gives Grout, rep, 1900 majority in place of 9S1 republican ma- jority in 1892.
 White River Junction, Vt, Sept L. This has been typical republican weather for the state election and large vote has been boiled. Returns thus far received showed that many democrats have voted the republican ticket or have refused to vote or that the reserve republican vote has been largely cast in this election. Returns from twenty-two towns give the fol- lowing vote for governor: Grout rep. 7,270; Jackson, dem, 1,622: Battell, pop, 72; Whittemore, pro- 1O4. Grout'si plurality 5,64S and majority over all 5,472.
 Tn 1892 Fuller, rep, had ,5234; Smalley. dem., 2,514; all others PAP.
 Fuller's majority, 2,478. The result shows 121 per cent. increase in the re- publican majority. If this increase in 1 the republican majority is maintained it will equal the widest estimates made i for the state.
 Bennington, Vt, Sept. 1--Benning- ton county complete gains republican majority for governor of 779 over two
 
 throughout the state will bring the ma- jority to 35,000.
 White River Junction, Vt, Sept. l.. Returns from fifty towns give Grout, rep, 12,4O4; Jackson, dem.. 2,664; Bat tell, pop, 140; Whittemore, pro-, 16s. Grout's plurality, 974; majority, 9,411. The same towns in 1892 gave Fuller, rep, s.s2S; Smalley. dem. 3s16; all others, 439. Fuller's plurality, 4,912; majority over all, 4.473. These fifty towns show gain in the republican vote of 3576, or 40 per cent, and a loss in the democratic vote of 1,252, of 32 per cent. The increase in the repubH- can majority is 4,93S over that of 1892, a gain of over no per cent The towns above do not include the larger ones as follows: Bennington, Middlebury, St. Albans, St. Johnsbury, or the cities of Barre, Burlington, Rutland and ver- genneS.
 Returns from seventy-five towns give Grout, rep, 17,9OS; Jackson, dem., 391s; Battell, pop, PA; Whittemore. pro-, 22S. Grout's plurality, 1889; majority over all, 13,547. Same towns in 1892 gave Fuller rep, 12,767; Smalley, dem., B. 756; all others, ell. Net gain in repub- lican majority, 7,147, showing that per centage gain is being maintained and if it continues the republican majority will be about 37,000 in the state.
 Bennington, Vt, Sept. 1.-Benning- ton is republican by 423 majority on town representative, the total vote be- ing 1,471 This per cent, if carried throughout, will give Vermont Sl,OO0 republican majority.
 Hyde Park. Vt, Sept. 1.-L. P. Butts, rep, is elected representative by Sz majority. Governor vote: Grout zS5, Johnson FPS, Battell 46, prohibition g. the largest vote ever cast in town and the largest majority.