Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-27
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 will hold its state election one
week from today and all eyes viii 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 a
Republican gubernatorial majority Of
$4,000,
In IS vears-or ever since the birth OF
the Republican party-Vermont has
never elected Democratic governor,
More than that, Vermont has never
sent a Democrat to congress or to the
United States senate. The Democrats
have never won the state legislature.
They had no representatives in last
years state senate.
And yet in presidential years when
ever the Republican candidate for gov
iernor has got by with less than a $4,000
majority the Republican national COM
n1ittee has kmmediately headed for the
tall timber, knowing full we'll that the
general election of November would
place Democrat in the white house.
This. has happened twice. in 1884,
wfen Sam P1ngree won the governor
ship OF Vermont by 21,S5o in Septem-
Der, and the country elected Grover
Cleveland IN November and eight years
later when Levi Fuller won the govern
orsh4p by 1885 and Cleveland took the
presidency two months afterwsrd
Thsn Cleveland Lost.
To strengthen the claim Of the Green
Mountain state as the best little indi-
Gator ever II may be pointed out that In
the big election year in between the
year 1888 William Pitt Dillingham;
swept the state by 1853 and Grover
Cleveland lost the presidency to Gem
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 Taft's
goose is cooked For 1t is as certain as
taxes that Allan Fletcher OF Cavern
dish Windsor county. the millionaire
picked out this year to receive the gov
ernorship on the golden platter of the
c. . p. will not get $4,000 majority
Certain because for the first time but
one in many. many years the c. o. p.
in Vermont is up against a real fight,
and there are Ave candidates in the
field for the governorship
epublicsn-Alan NJ. Fletcher, Of
Tavendish
Democratic-Harlan B. Howe, of St.
Johnsbury
Progressive-The Rev. Frazer Metz
ger. of Randolph.
Prohibtion--Clement M Smith, of
dorrisville.
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 Vermonters spell
bound all this week-it might be we'll
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, 17,425; Prohibition, Ed
win K. Toole, Franklin, 1904. Socialist,
Chester X. Ordway, ProctorsviUe, .O55.
Governor Mead's plurality in an off
year was 1879. The Democratic can
didate, Mr.. Watson, polled the largest
vote given to 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 well
TINS year may mean that Harlan r
Howe, Of St Johnsbury as splendid
and as inspiring personality as one
may ind in all New England. will come
out Of the contest a leader.
II 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