St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-09-10
THE STATE ELECTION.
Comments from Various Sources and
with Varied Edeas,

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The result is probably what the sober
minded expected, if not what they
hoped Montpelier Journal.
The election in Vermont discloses two
very creditable sentiments among the
Green Mountain people. They have
considerable desire to escape from the
law OF prohibition, and there seems to
be no material decline in the strength of
Republicanism,- New York Sun.
Never before was an issue so fully dis
cussed, never before were men and meas.
ures SO searchingly reviewed as in this
campaign. The result is the most re-
markable exhibition of independence in
voting which the old commonwealth
ever experienced. Yesterday was the
peoples day. The people took charge
OF themselves. They searched their own
consciences, voted as they saw fit and
smashed every slate Burlington News.
1t is clear that large body of the peo-
pie OF Vermont wished to make as en-
phatic as possible the expression of a
wish tor the repeal of the present prohi.
bition law, the enforcement of which is
little more than a mockery. They were
tired OF hypocrisy, and so, notwithstand-
ing Mr.. Clements Inconsistency in max
ing an issue against the Republicans for
doing all he asked them to do. thew
followed him to the extreme of his adj
vanced position. They wanted to pet
ria OF the cemoraizing cheat of prohibj.
ton which by common consent did NOT
proh1bit, and they went straight for the
mark without regard for other consid-
erations,-L New York Tribune.
Against what appeared at first to he
considerable personal unpopularitv;
against the organized and determined
opposition OF two great political par.
ties; agalnst strong and we'll organized
campaign conducted by the ablest state
and national politicians; against a full
money chest-against all these and in
race OF all the power of every prohibi
tlonist, male and female, in the state.
FerciVal W. Clement of Rutland plucks
from this ultra-conservative old COM
monwealth nearly half the votes of its
citizens, throws the old party into a
panic, and sends the choice of governor
INTO the House of Represent atives-thus
wholly wipng out republican majority
OF thirty thousand. Whatever NAV be
the individual opinion or feeling as to
the act itself, 1t must be said by all that
the achievement was one OF the great.
est--lt not the greatest-in New England
politics'-l Burlington Free Press.
The machine is busted. The peonle
who have tried to construct their ow,,
two-sided platform with the idea that a
majority OF the voters must stand upon
1t whether they know it to be wrong
or not, have possibly learned a lesson
that will be OF advantage to them in the
future. The voters of Vermont are reach
ing point where they will vote accord
ing TO Their own ideas regardless of how
the machine may frown upon them If
anybody is to blame for the temnorarv
sPHtting. up OF the republican party it is
the iactlon that has tried to crowd dc.
ception down the throats of honest con.
stltuents. Whether Mr.. Clement is elect
ed or not, he has offset whate YER NAV
have been said against him by takino The
lead IN movement that will do Yer
mont more good than anything that has
ever happened to it before Barre Tele.
gram.
The party has been rebuked, but it has
not been defeated. The party will emerge
rom this experience stronger and better
united than ever, with some of its old.
deadwood Topped off, with an infusion of
new ideas in its councils with renewed
respect for public opinion and with qlor.
lous prospects of glorious victory in
1904, This is merely one of the polif;cal
experiences that come to every state and
every dominant party about so frequent
~ and that is needed, just as the thunder
storm is, to purify the ARTIST. Adams
Messenger. '''"''
The campaign just closed NAV well
serve as a curb to the ambition to he.
come governor of Vermont. lie a
mighty expensive, nerve DESTROYING, rem,
acknowledging, not to say hazardops
experience, this running for the governor.
ship, We imagine that none Of the fonr
gentlemen who have this year aspred to
1t would care to repeat the experiment
under like circumstances. -TRandoInb
Herald and News. pA
The success of Mr.. Clement in forcing
this issue, notwithstanding his own de.