The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-23
veRmonT AND mAlNs.

7 HI POLITICAL StOlm center IS 10
1 Gated in Vermont and Maine these
days. Vermont has a state\ election
Sept s and Maine has one Sept. u.
Democrats have no hope of carrying
either state, but unusual interest viii
be taken in the result by politicians in
all parts Of the country. as the size Of
the Republican majorities is expected
TO indicate the drift of opinion in the
whole country 1t has grown TO be a
fixed superstition among Republicans
that when their majority falls below
p, 600 in the September election in Yer
mont they viii lose in the presidential
election to follow.
Aware of this superstition and fear
ing the effects of a bad slump in the
vote in the two states named the Re
publican party managers are putting
forth strenuous efforts 10 stir up the
Yankee voters. Speaker Cannon has
worn his voice to a fragile telling the
Vermonters how to save the nation
and now a whole army of lesser spell
binders VIII be turned loose among the
hills of New England.
The figures Of recent. elections in Yer
mont and Maine present a dark picture
for the contemplation of Democrats.
This is the situation in Vermont:
Rep Dem.
1892 .............-......------. 81 g92 1882
1896 .......--....-....----..-.. 81 .127 0,6s1
19CJ .-.---...-..-.-----..-----. ~. SIS 12,Sie
In Maine the outlook is also dark for
the Democrats and the figures give
some idea of the work necessary to be
done in getting the party into hghting
trim. Here are the Maine figures.
Rep. Dem.
1892 commandments. 62,923 4S0ll
fOQs Observation-Disclosures. s5 lG5 81 SIS
1850 .....-.-....--.--.------ 65.l35- 3. ~
1t must not be understood that the
Democrats are letting these two states
go by default just because Of the heavy
Republican majorities.
On the contrary, the best speakers OF
the entire country are to be sent into
Vermont TO canvass that state till the
day OF the state election, and from
there they viii go to Maine for week
of vigorous work If the Democrats
can bring the Republican majOTities
down TO where they were in 1892 it viii
be proof that the men who left the par
ty on the silver issue are back in line,
and that the Republicans viii have to
fight for states they now consider alb
soluteIy safe. Should the Democrats
show gains over the vote of 1892 the
Republicans viii be thrown into panic
in the entire country. The leaders
know this and this is why Chairman
CorteIyou is massing his heavy artillery
in the absolutely certain Republican
states.
Republicans have just awakened to
the fact that they haves fight on
When they learned that William z.
Sheehan. chairman of the Democratic
executive committee, was taking a two
weeks rest in the middle of the cam
paign they smiled in pity; but when
they learned that he had gone to Bar
Harbor, Ne. TO rest. they began yelling
for help and they have been yelling
since. Unless all the indications go
wrong they viii vel still louder after
the returns come in after these prelim-
mary skirmishes In the far east. The
people there are in revolt against the
hide-bound tariff policy of the party
in power, they want reciprocity with
Canada and they are going after it.
Watch for the vote.