St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-09-04
VERnONT'S VOTE.
How the Country Views It.--Press Comments
on the Great Victory.

VII tnS bIChl
Vermont sends greetings to the republi-
cans OF the Union and to Maj. Mckinley,
with the largest majority ever given in
its history. Almost every town shows a
heavy increased republican majority;
and in many towns the increase is phe-
nomenal. Maj, Grout runs considerably
ahead OF the state ticket, through the
votes OF sound money democrats, who,
laying aside party feeling for the sake of
the public good, have swclled his ma
jority as a rcbuke to the men who are
doing their best to turn the national
democracy into populist and fee silver
party While the republican vote shows
an increase OF over thIrty-three per cent,
the democratic vote falls off in even
larger proportion. The campaign in this
state has been conducted solely on the
national issue. The voters have realized
itsimportance and acted accordingly. The
men who have voted for Grout have
understood perfectly that they were vot-
ing for Mckinley; and the magnificent
result chroniced in our election re-
turns Wednesday is Vermonts verdict
against free silver, free trade, populism
and anarchy and in favor of sound
money, protection of American indus.
tries, national honor national credit
and law and order Burlington Free
Press.
The first battle of the fall campaign in
the northern states was fought in YER
mont Tuesday, and the popocrats were
beaten, horse, foot and artillery. The
farmers of the Green Mountain state
have tramped the Chicago platform in
the dust and buried the free coinage of
silver under a republican majority of
enormous dimensions. Vermont has
rolled up on the sound money side the
largest majority known in her political
record, and that is saying great deal.
She has fired her first gun in the fall cam
paign, and its echoes will roll through
out the country, carrying to all honest
money men an emphatic assurance of
victory in the pending presidential con
test Boston Herald.
The significance of the result is too
plain to be misunderstood. The farmers
and quarry workers of Vermont have
served unmistakable notice on Mr.. BRYAN
that they want none of the fiftv-three-
cent dollars which he has offered them as
the panacea for all ills. The splendid
victory for sound money in Vermont will
nsplrlt the supporters of Mckinley in
all the other states, and ioreshadows a
sweeping victory throughout the Union
two months hence. 1t is a day for rejoic.
ing-and for resolving to work hard
right up to the closing of the polls on
November g. New York Tribune.
A republican plurality OF $4,000 in a
total vote of about $4,000, largely
increased vote in every county in the
state, the failure of the democrats to
elect single state senator, the loss of a
dozen democratic members of the house
OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES are some OF the
proofs that Vermont is for the right.
The silver forces were simply swamped,
and even the republican leaders are said
to be surprised at the result. Without
surrenderng to the natural feeling of Ella
ton over the Vermont victory, we are
confident that the attitude of that state
is typical of what the situation will be
throughout the country in November.
Every voter will then have had ample
opportunity to stud y and think for him
self, thanks to the republican campaign
OF education, and the claims of honesty
and good government will be recognized
by those who have the national honor
and prosperity at heart Boston
Traveller.