Gloucester County Democrat., 1906-09-20

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served that they are not exploiting
Vermont as political barometer this
load of poles,"s as my valued constitu
ent Colonel John NJ Barker Of Mont,
gomery City, Mo, would express=it=
Why this painful silence among Re
publicans as to the result in the
Green Mountain State? It's plain as
the nose on General Napierss face. The
Republicans carried Vermont by only
about 1900, whereas the normal Re
publican majority is about 10000
that is, they lost half their majority.
Two years ago Vermont went Repub-
hcan by somewhere between $4,000
and 10000. and straightway every Re
publican In the land was blowing
about the fact that the Vermont ba-
rometer indicated 4 Republican, land
Slide, and Republican stock went scar
ing sky high. Now. it is said to be
poor rule that does not work both
ways If Yermontsis barometer and
largely increased RepubAca n major
ity7 insel904 indicated Republican
landslide, why does rot a largely di--
unfinished Republican majority indis
cate a Democratic landslideY Vermont
hasn't given So small Republican
majority since 1890, the year Of the
Democratic landslide Tie same ratio
of Republican loss in all the con
gressional districts would give the
Democrats as big a majority in the
house of the Sixtieth congress as the
Republicans have in the Fifty ninth,
which is III But we will be satisfied
with half that big a majority. Not
only does the Vermont vote show that
things are coming our way, but the
vote in Oregon and Arkansas shows
the same thing The Republican ma
jority In Oregon was reduced not SO
much as in Vermont, but nevertheless
it was reduced. The Democratic ma
jority ! in Arkansas was Increased.
These three Oregon, Vermont and Ar
kansas-are the principal states to hold
elections at other times than Novem-
Der. Only. Maine votes. before Novem-
Der. If the Republican nlaJorities in
the Pine Tree State shrink as in Ver-s
mont, then it will show more conclu-
sively than ever that the people will
repudiate the 6. o. p on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in No
yenlbef-a consuinmation deyoutly to
be wished. 3a sss
In the meantime Hon. William Fl.
Taft, secretary of war and said TO be
President Roosevelt's pet candidate for
the succession, has. delivered a solar
.plexus blow to the. stand patters by de-
claring unequiyocally in favor of tariff
revision. Secretary Taft is a great
man. Personally am fond Of him.
He can see as far into a grindstone as
sthe next oneg and he7reads the signs of
the times carefully and no doubt pain
fully, thessigns which indicate that the
|, end. of the long supremacy of the G.
70. T. is at hand. Secretary Taft has
laudable desire to be president OF the
United States all Ohio statesmen have
and he would save the Republican
party from overthrow and thereby in
crease his own chances Of Knocking the
presidential persimmon by inducing it
to do what must ineyi tably he done.
and that sislto cut down the outrageous
and extortionate features of the Ding
ley tariff bill. He warns his Republican
cohorts that unless the Republicans go
through the motion of cutting down the
tariff rates the Democrats will do it.
and OF course, being a Republican Of
/ high degree, he assumes that it is bet
liter for the Republicans to do it than
I for the Democrats TO do its But people
( of: good sense viii conclude that If a
Republican congress, with almost two
thirds majorities in house and senate.
will not revise the tariff no Re-
publican congress ever will do it and
viii therefore elect a Democratic con-
i5gfess.
an ~ Kaiser Wilhelm.
+ From time to time the papers an
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