The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1912-09-12
The Vermont Election.

No one, who read the result of the
state election in Vermont last week
can longer doubt that the Progressive
Party will poll'a large vote Throughout
the country at the presidential election
in November and that Theodore Roose-
velt, even if not elected president, will
be a great factor in the race.
In this election in round numbers
the vote of the Republican candidate
for governor was $4,000; the Demo
cratic candidate 10000 and the Pro
gressive candidate $1,000.
The Progressive Party had been in
existence only about month and less
than a months campaign had been
made by it's candidates. 1t had nc
organization and it's candidate for
governor was practically unknown
preacher.
1t is reasonable to believe from these
figures that if the presidential cleo
tion had been held last week Theodore
Roosevelt would have carried Yer
mont. With two months in which to
organize and preach the doctrins of
the party is it not certainty that
Roosevelt will carry Vermont in
November.
Every report from that state indi'
Gates that Roosevelt was thousands OF
votes stronger than the Republican
candidate for governor. No fair
minded man will deny that he has
wonderful personal following through
out the country and would have and
will receive many of the votes that
went to the other candidates in the
Vermont election.
Vermont is acknowledged to be one
of the conservative states of the Un-
ion. 1t has always given its electoral
vote to the Republican party, since
the organization of that party. In
over 60 years it has never failed to
elect Republican governor. 1t has
been as consistently Republican as
Georgia has been Democratic. If
Roosevelt can carry Vermont does he
not stand good chance of being the
next president of the United States?
We have heard many bitter things
said about COL Roosevelt since the
first of the year, but even his most
bitter enemies admit that he is man
of wonderful abilities, has a remarka'
bic personal following, is great cam
paigner, good organizer and shrewo
and resourceful politi C an. Every
movement with which he has aligned
himself in the past has grown rapidly
in popular favor and it is almost GER
tain that he will be much stronger on
November 5, the day Of the election
than he is TODAY.
When Roosevelt first entered the
fight for the Republican nomination
for president early in the year it was
freely predicted that before the nomi
nation was made that he would be thu
worst discredited man In the United
States that he would not have
handful of delegates before the con
vention and that from the most popu
lar man in the United States, he woulC
have become the most unpopular.
Everyone knows the story of thu
primaries, how he carried every stat
in which primary election was held
including Ohio, and that it tested thu
strength of the machine politician
and Office holders and that the onl,
thing that prevented his nomination
was that President Taft controlled tn
party organization. That the nomin
alton of President Taft was made a
Chicago in direct opposition to tn
wish Of the great majority of the Re
publicans of the United States an
was successful only through the powe
OF political manipulation, can not b
honestly disputed.
The Vermont state election youl'