The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-09-12
IN VERMONT ARE PROGRES.
SIVES, DEMOCRATS AND RE-
PUBLICANS OF THIS
STATE
Signs Of Hope
Appear on the Horizon fer AL Par
ties, the SoothSnyCrs of Each Sec
ing Uncrring Indications of Sue
CCSS in November.

Ithe early election returns? If such
| there be, go mark him we'll aid let
him be cast into the region os outer
darkness, for the political ser with.
out the gift of prophecy belongcth moi
| in tlat realm where hope is cherished
| until the most belated of the helated
| returns arrive.
In early September, just about the
end of the sizzling season, Vermont
| has the symptoms Of the dstu, bance
which rTls amuck through the nation
| like a plague in India about CO days
later. THESE early symptoms are
| watched with unrivaled interest by
| those who are anxious to discern and
forecast what November may bring
forth.
The political soothsayers In West
Virginia always secure grains Of COM
| fort from the Vermont returNs In
this troubled year of political erup-
| tons nothing has developed 20 dim
the vision of the chesty Warwicks
who peep into the future and n mys-
tic syllables read their horoscope &c
the unenlightened.
Republican, Democratic and Pro-
gressive managers have no doubt that
the males in Vermont over II years
of age attempted in the recent election
to give a certain and unerring sign
to their brethren and the seler sis
ters in the other states, just the trend
the herd was taking through The pas
unimpoTant states like Pennsy 'vania
New York and Ohio might follow as
| the lamb follows the eve, but ii has
so happened again that the prcenosti-
Gators do not interpret alike.
eBanr*, 10y
Ireigned ,upcontined at the Democratic
state headquarters at Petersburg
when it was learned from the returns
that the Democrats had made a gain
of about % Per cent in the total vote
cast in Vermont, and the lightning
calculators at the state Headquarters
Immediately proved with figures that
with the same increase in the, Demo
cratic party in West Virginia this fall
the Republican majority of 12,OCO for
President Taft would be wiped out
entirely.
| In the absence OF State Chairman
Stuart ". Walker, Major M. NJ. Nicely.
| the assistant, gave out a statement,
based on the returns of the 1908
election and in which he showed that
II the Vermont percentage Of Increase
was maintained by the Democrats of
| West Virginia, it would meal an adj
dition Of 1856 votes to 0he Bryan
vote Of III AIS Of four years ago and
29,750 votes to the vote of 130,9O7 Civ
en- Louis Bennett, the gubtruatorial
candidate Of 1908 1T matters 1ittle, -
said Vice Chairman Nicely, whether
the friends Of Roosevelt or Taft re-
ceived the larger vote in the Vermont
election, the main point emphasized
by the result Of Tuesdays election is
the Democratic gain"
| The beilringer from the Buckwheat
Bat Chairman James s. Iakin, Of
the Republican State Central Commit
tee, heard the returns from Vermont
| just before his departure fer C,arks-
burg, where he went to assume COM
mand at the Republican STATE head
quarters. Chairman Lakin me of
those who believes that satisfaction
come from success rather than apol-
ogy or prediction, and AS the Rtpu1=
means carried Vermont aga.n he
thought there was no occasioa to- be
downcast, believing the grand Oh par.
ty mad drawn first blood and was
getting in better trim all the time for
! the big fight that follows the curtain
raiser
Just about the time that the Yer
| mont returns rolled in an hei- all
pearej ct the home OF Chairman Will
/ liam NJ. 0. Dawson, the Progc -sslye
manager. While ostensibly the for
mcr Governor seemed to be LEASED
with the showing Of the Prog2pyafvcs
! IN the hide-bound Republican state,
mis- political foes asserted that Dawson
was just as cunning as ever, and
| while outwardly expressing approval
of the Progressive vote lin the Eastern
! state, was in reality just firing few
verbal shots over the arrival Of the
young Bull Moose. But the PJ ogres-
Sive Chairman still insists that the
Bull Mooeora II, Uorroon4 yyorn fu,ioo