Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
Some of the Things Vermont Seems
to Show.

to Show.
Lewiston Tribune: The Vermont
state election furnishes some general
indications upon the political situation
which will enter into the national poll
that may be of help in arriving at ones
bearings. For one thing, the three
~cornered race is bringing out d much
larger vote than the normal, and this
is to be reckoned with in estimating the
chances in the close states. 1t had
been forecasted that Vermont would
poll So, 900 votes Tuesday, but instead
of that there were 65, 900 cast. An
other conspicuous fact is that the re-
publican ticket has polled very nearly
its normal vote, the Increase oyer pre-
vious years largely going to make up
the democratic gain and the Roosevelt
strength. Still another item is that
except for the head of the ticket tie
vote remains old-line republican as be-
fore. Couspicuously in the case of the
congressional ticket the progressiyes
made no nominations, with the result
that the republican. majority was SO
large that in was not worth while to
mention the democratic vote at all.
lnasmuch as this progressivism is al
most exclusively a national question.
affecting congressional policies, while
at the same time the progressives NOM
mate no congressman but vote for the
same old national policies, there seems.
besides the r5asonability of it. early
proof that the movement is spasmodic
and illogical, and of no value except to
encompass the temporary overthrow of
the republican party.
Of course, the vote is not an exact
forecast of what the presidential vote
will be, but the symptoms nevertheless
seem plain. Colonel Roosevelt, it NAV
be remembered, complained bitterly
that his own partisans would not sun
port his state ticket, r~eserving their
manifestations for the national cleo
ton. Governor Wilson will also in all
reason, run ahead of the recent demo
cratic vote, and President Taft viii
run behind the republican state vote.
Both Wilson and Roosevelt win fire VI
from him then,S whereby it is easv ia
see That he may even lose the state.
having a margin of but 5000 to run On,
and all the animosity against his a.
& minlstratlon yet to be vented. If Ner-
mont is anything of a criterion, the in
formed opinion that there is not .
single state in the union that the ,rcs;.
dent will certainly carry seems to have
considerable foundation.
One thing. however, seems plain te
The Tribune, and that is that there !.
very little revolt against the republican
party itself but Only against President
Taft, and that, too, at the bebest 81
colonel Roosevelt. Were it not fo,
roosevelt, in other words, the repuh.
lear party would be substantially q,
strong, not as sat its zenith but as i
was TWO or four years ago For,
years ago Governor Wilson-anvor
except Bryant hight have won. rs tn,
PIVOTAL states gave the winning tickle
no formidable maioyisies. while tw,
Years ago the democratic candidaf,
would have had an ven break. or
trihe the best Of it. The Roosev vel
detection from the president NTH
present c~anldaiGn is to be added toth
democratic chances as they stood ty
or even four years ago. There are. a
tnis day, states as sol;dly republican q
che south is democratic, ven thong
such republican states are ant TO O
democratic this year on the rstions
ticket. Such itates are in New Enc
land, on tie Pacific coast. and in tn
middle wcst. The fact that thes
states, al least some Of them. ar
reasonably sure TO vote for the demo
cratic nomineos in the electoral col!sr
exen oaile overwhelmingly republics
in p.rtisan srmpathies. al the sar..