Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-28
ALL EYES NOW ON
VERMONT, OLD
INDICATOR
Election Next Tuesday To Be
Watched With Great Interest.
Five Tickets in Field.

MONTPELIER. Vt, Aug. 27-Ver-
mont win hold its state election one
week from today, and all eyes will be
centered on the Green Mountain state
because the result here foreshadows
the result Of the presidential election
In November
As an Indicator state Vermont has
not failed in more than a quarter Of a
century.
Most Republican Of all the Republi-
can strongholds, she yet maintains a
danger line--a safety mark.
That danger mark or safety line is
Republican gubernatorial majority OF
$4,000. -.
In S. vears-or ever since the birth OF
the Republican party-Vermont has,
never elected a Democratic governor
More than that. Vermont has never
sent A Democrat TO congress or 10 the
United states senate. The Democrats
have never won the state legislature
They had no representatives in last
years state senate.
And vet in presidential years when
ever the Republican candidate for gov
ernor has got by with less than a $4,000
majority the Republican national com
mittee has Immediately headed for the
TAN timber. knowing full well that the
general election of November would
place a Democrat in the white house
This has happened twice, in 1884
when Sam Pingree won the governor
ship Of Vermont by 2185O in Septem
s1a Il
Cleveland in November, and eight years
later when Levi Fuller won the govern
orship by 1886 and Cleveland took the
presidency two months afterward
Then Cleveland Lost.
To strengthen the claim of the Green
Mountain state as the best little indi
Gator ever it may be pointed out that in
the big election year in between the
year 1883 William Pitt Dillingham;
swept the state by 27619 and Grover
Cleveland lost the presidency to Gen
eral Harrison.
Now, then, taking this indicatorship
for granted, believing that figures never
lie, you may write it in your little book
to begin with that President Tafts
goose is cooked. For it is as certain as
taxes that Allan Fletcher of Caven-
dish, Windsor county. the millionaire
picked out this year to receive the gov
ernorship on the golden platter of the
G. O. p. will not get $4,000 majority.
Certain because for the first time but
one in many, many years the G. o. p.
in Vermont is up against a real fight,
and there are five candidates in the
field for the governorship.
Experimentation NJ. Fletcher, Of
Cavendish.
Democratic-Harlan B. Howe, of ST.
Johnsbury.
Progressive-The Rev Frazer Metz
ger of Randolph
Morrisvine.
Socialist-Fred w. Suitor, Of Barre
Depends on Bull Moose.
TO begin with-and before going into
the fact that Theodore Roosevelt, Gov
ernor Foss. Dudley Field Malone, Rep
resentative Phil Campbell, Miss Ad-
DAMS Eugene Chain and many other
stars will be holding NermOnters SPELL
bound all this week-it might be well
to produce here the figures of the off
year election OF 1910:
Republican, John A. Mead, Rutland,
S5,26S: Democratic Charles d Wat
son, St Adams, 1I425; Prohibition. Ed
win R, Toole, Franklin, 1,044; Socialist,
Chester X. Ordway. Proctorsvine 1.O55.
Governor Mead's plurality in an off
year was 1879. The Democratic can
didate Mr., Watson, polled the largest
vote given 70 an out-and-Out Democrat
since the late Brad" Smalley made the
running, away back in the second
Cleveland term Of 1892
Speaking broadly, the Democratic
candidate Of two years ago cleaned up
about every Democratic vote there was
in Vermont at that time To DO as wen
his year may mean that Harlan r.
Howe. of ST. Johnsbury. as splendid
and as inspiring personality as one
may find in all New England, will come
out of the contest a leader.
It all depends upon the Bull Moose
and the Bull Moose knows it. Some OF
the ProgressiVes are SO sanguine as to
say that the contest for first place is
already between Howe and the Rev Mr.