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 viii hold its state election one
week from today. and all eyes will be
conferred 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
century.
Most Republican of all the Republic
can stronghods, she yet maintains
danger line-a safety mark.
That danger mark or safety line Is
Republican gubernatorial majority OF
% 600
In s. years-or ever since the birth OF
the Republican party-Vermont mas
never elected a 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
ernor has got by with less than $4,000
majority the Republican national COM
mittee has Immediately headed for the
TAN timber. knowing full well that the
general election Of November would
place a Democrat i'm the white house.
This has happened twice, in 1884,
when Sam Pingree won the governor
ship of Vermont by 21.S50 in Septem-
,1,, bod
cleveland in November, and eight years
later when Levi Fuller won the govern
orship by 1886 and Cleveland took the
presidency two months afterward
Then Cleveland Lost.
To strengthen the claim of the Green
Mountain state as the best little indi-
Gator ever it may be pointed out that in
the big election year in between the
year 1883 William Pitt Dillingham;
swept the state by 2I619 and Grover
Cleveland lost the presidency to Cen
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 it is as certain as
taxes that Allan Fletcher Of Caven-
dish, Windsor county. the millionaire
picked out this year to receive the gov
ernorship on the golden platter of the
+ G. O. P. will not get $4,000 majority,
Certain because for the first time but
one in many, many years the G. o. p.
in Vermont is up against a real fight,
and there are five candidates in the
field for the governorship.
Republican-Allan NJ. Fletcher, of
Cavendish.
mocratic-Haran b Howe, of St
Johnsbury.
Progressive-Th Rev. Frazer Metz
ger, Of Randolph.
rohibition-Clement NJ. Smith, of
MorrisviHe.
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 well
to produce here the figures of the off
year election of 1910:
Republican, John A. Mead, Rutland
1928; Democratic. Charles d Wat
SON st. Adams, 1925; Prohibition. Ed
win r. Toole, Franklin l,044: Socialist.
chester X. OrdWay, ProCtorsVille, .055
Governor Mead's plurality in an off
year was 1919. 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
this year may mean that Harlan B
Howe, of st. Johnsbury, as splendid
and as inspiring a personality as one
may find in all New England. will come
out of the contest a leader
1t all depends upon the Bull Moose.
and the Bull Moose knows it. Some Of
the ProgressiyeS are SO sauguine as TO
say that the contest for first place is