Evening star., 1912-09-02
MAY PREVENT A CHOICE
Does Not Expect Progressives to
Garry the State.
CAMPAIGN A WH1RLWIND
Election Will Be Held Tomorrow.
Significance Ascribed to Size of
Majority Of Dominant Party.
Special From a STAFF Correspondent.

Special From a STAFF Correspondent.
NEW YORK, September Back from
the mountains are the Vermont political
boosters, bull mooses, big and little;
Taftites. wlsonites. prohibitionites. So
cialites, and the attendant train of news
paperites.
Col Roosevelt is in high glee and is
confident that he has put a crimp In the
old republican party. His reception by
the Green Mountain people was everything
the heart could desire. even the Roose-
welt heart acvaricious for acclaim.
His path was not bestrewed with flowers.
but draped with banadannas. the official
emblem of the bull moose party. The
Vermont people unbent from their usual
phlegmatic nature, and actually warmed
I'D to cheer him. He Travelled during his
three-day visit some 400 miles in auto
mobiles, setting q strenuous pace up hill
and down dale. He made his entry into
one town on an ox-cart and enjoyed the
novelty.
He hammered his enemies and got lot
oi bile off his system which had been
ense endered by the attacks of Penrose and
Arch bold. He had lots of fun calling
people liars and crooks.
Nay Prevent Choice Tomorrow.
Ihe colonel does not expect 10 carry
Vermont for the progressive state ticket.
Eut he does hope to cut the regular re-
publican margin below the normal $4,000
and thereby indicate to the country that
this Is not a republican year. The fact
that the interposition Of his progressive
party may throw the election Of governor
into the legislature and thereby elect the
regular republican candidate does not
matter. If he had not gone into Yer
rl~1
the state, so 1t is horse and horse. The
legislature is republican by 176 majority
on Joint ballot. History has shown that
for the past thirty years. when the re-
below 25.OOO. the country at large has
gone democratic. The only exception was
in 1876 The democratic victories Of
1854 and 1892 In the nation were fore
shadowed by the Vermont elections Of
September, when the normal republican
majorities yere cut down.
Col Roobevelt found one thing to
worry him before he came out Of the
state. He learned that some progressives
who intended to vote the progressive
presidential ticket in November would
vote the regular republican ticket in the
state election Tuesday. This perturbed
lowers to break away from the old party
now and get into line with the bull
mooses on the state ticket.
Campaign Full Of Incident.
The closing days of the campaign were
full Of color, incident and one or two
riots. The colonel did not have an un-
contested field at any point The Taft
people hung on his flank, and worried
and harried him everywhere. At Win
ston Junction, where there are factories
controlled by standpat republicans an
tsttempt was made to break up the
meeting and the opposite factions went
at each other with their fists.
The colonel made a serious effort to
break the lines of the socialists. The
strength of the socialist party rests
largely in the manufacturing communi-
i-es. At Barre 5000 workingmen turned
out to meet him and he was told that
me socialists were strong there. He
Urged the workingmen to look carefully
Jser the labor plank of the progressive
.,arty. claiming that it offered more prac-
,ical benefits to labor than did the planks
Of hi either 9th, Of the old parties Every at.
would merely brush aside with a laugh all
charges against himself and his past ad-
mtnistrations. and would go after the
interrupter personally and call him an
undesirable citizen, to the delight OF
some OF the mans neighbors.
Burning His Bridges.
At all times he kept the progressive
party aloof from the republican party,
burning his bridges behind him. 1t sure
ly was q picture to see Roosevelt, who
ever since his entry into public life up to
this time has been a rock-ribbed republi-
can. refusing more than once to join a
dissenting faction from the regular ticket.
who In his speeches. when running for
Vice President and President, praised the
republican party as the bulwark of saliva
ton OF the nation. now placing the party
which made him what he is. on a par
wxf<tS HSA A4v
Ho declared that the progressiveS would
slump out from the republicans just as
tho republicans superseded the wings
when Abraham Lincoln went into the
ity TO place himself on q parallel with
Lincoln. The democrats talked tariff,
advocating lower duties. The republicans
took the other end of the tariff issue as
their meat. and called upon the Yer
monters to witness that the prosperity
of the state was due to republican
policies.
The campaign practically came to an
end Saturday night. The Vermonters
have never witnessed anything like it
such a whfrlw1nd OF oratory, investive
and pleading as there was They prob
ably went to bed with dizzy heads Satur-
day night, and will sit around today.
think IL all over. and vote tomorrow.
Indication Of General Sentiment.
There is one feature which should be
borne in mind when 1t comes to taking
the result Of the election as an indication
of the general sentiment of the country
At large and that Is, that never before
shaye there been five separate tickets in
the field. nor such division of the votes
of either party as Is threatened by the
advent of the progressives. The candi.
dates are: Allen M. Fletcher Of Caven-
dish, republican,: Harlan b. Howe Of st
Johnsbury, democrat: Rev. Fraser Metz.
ger Of Randolph. progressive; Clement
F. Smith of Morrisville. prohibition, and
Fred w. Suiter of Barre. socialist.
The vote in Vermont has been as fol.
lows:
Year. Democrat. hepuDucan
1884 Observation-Disclosures. 1881 q. 1SS
1sAS- lo,SSs ac,oS.
1S9Z. 49, oa,o,.
1896. l1'0S 80, -.
1904 ........... 1896 Ash
ions ....,.., 1882 As, ,59s
Famous Libby Prisoner Dead.
NEW YORK, September 2.-Maj. AL.
fed r. Calhoun, a civil war veteran