Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-08

Walden, VT, Sept. 7.--charIes
j. Bell, the successful candidate
for governor in yesterdays elec-
tion, today sent the following |
message to President Roosevelt:
Tuesdays plurality of over
10000 In Vermont points the way
to victory for Roosevelt and Fair
banks In November"
White River Junction, VT, Sept. Z.
With eleven towns out of 246 cities
and towns yet to be heard from, later
and revised returns today indicate
that the republicans carried the state
yesterday by a plurality in the neigh
borhood of 31,SO0
At / o'clock only three small towns,
which cast about 300 votes in 1900, re-.
main to be heard from and the vote
gives Bell, republican, plurality of
3l,440.
Senate Solidly Republican.
The latest reports indicate that the
next state senate will be solidly re-
publican, the democrats losing their
present five seats. The democrats
will also lose about ten representa-
tives.
"Fair Weather" Indicated
The Vermont barometer reads fair
weather for republicans. Variations
above and below the $4,000 republican
plurality mark in the September cleo
tions preceding presidential contests
in the Green Mountain state have for
more than score of years been taken
as auguries of the national battle, and
the eyes of the country have awaited
anXiously the forecasts from the polit-
Junction.
Record Is Consistent.
Going back score of years, the re
publican pluralities in Vermont have
been in excess of $4,000 three times
and in each of the years that those
pluralities have prevailed a majority
of republican presidential electors
have been chosen by the voters in the
succeeding November. In 1884 and
1892 the republican pluralities in Sep
tember were below the $4,000 mark,
urated on the 4th of March the follow
ing year each time
Even back of 1884 the Vermont state
elections have indicated national re.
suits, but the nation at large had not
then begun to take notice of politico
meteorological conditions here. In
1876 the republican candidate for gov.
ernor had plurality of $4,000, and
there are many who still believe Sam.
uel J. Tilden was elected president OF
the United States in that year.
Much Interest in Outcome.
Realizing the effect of the state re
suit in Vermont upon the country at
large, the republican campaign mana
gers sent their strongest cards here
Senator Fairbanks, the candidate fol
v:ce-president. jumped from the prair
les of Kansas to these rock-strewr
hills, not because there was believed
to be any danger of Vermont's failing
to respond as usual with its electoral
vote but because of the moral effect
coupled with more or less superstition
that Vermont majorities work ir
doubtful sections. Attorney Genera
Moody and Uncle Joe" Cannon also
came here to stir up latent enthusiasm
The result today is that for which the
republican managers sought.
Only One Larger.
Only once before has there been {
republican plurality at September
election exceeding that indicated BY
the returns today and that was il
1896, when Mckinley first defeated
Bryan. Since 1896 the pluralitie.
have been above $4,000, but nevel
before.
Democrat Attacks Roosevelt.
Concord, N. H.. Sept. 7.-Henry F
Halls, of this city, was today nomin
ated by the democratic state conven
ton for governor Chairman Oliver E