The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-29
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WHAT WILL VERMONT DO?


 The eyes of the people who are keenly alive to the national political situation and outlook are turned to Vermont which next Tuesday holds it's state election and the result of which will serve as a straw to V1ndlcate which way the popular tide IS setting as regards the aspirations and pros- candidates. In presidential years Vermont's state election is usually pc- culiarly interesting even though it is such little state comparatively. or course it is generally understood that Vermont has long been surely Repub state elections have indicated pretty surely how the tide of popular politi- cal opinion was running, and the size of the states Republican major ity has been regarded as a prophecy. This year the interest as to what the complication arising from the presence of a third term party in the field.
 Maine also few days later chooses state officers and members of con- gress. In each state the main con- test will be triangular, but there are in Vermont five tickets in the field, Republican, Democratic. Progressive, prohibitionist and socialist. The last named will probably poll an insignif icant vote, but the prohibition ticket will be an important factor as the chief candidate Is master of the State Grange which has a membership of twenty thousand, and the question naturally arises which of the other parties will be drawn from the most by the water wagon vote. It is con- ceded by close observers that the pro- hibition and the progressive vote to- gether will seriously diminish the Re- nnQfaT. ially lessen the Republican plurality.
 That much importance is attached to the sentimental effect the Ver- mont election will have throughout the country is seen in the expressed determination of the Colonel to tour ocrats to make a strong fight there by sending Gov. Baldwin, Gov. Foss and Gov. Marshall to make campaign speeches. The situation is much complicated, however, by many pending local issues which are con tributing to fan popular excitement and prejudices and which as reports indicate will not tend to argument Republican success Some of the Vermont Democrats have even the hardihood to assert that in view of all the circumstances their party has a good chance to win. But as Yer mont gave a plurality of 18,000 to it's Republican state ticket two years ago when thousands of Republicans stay ed away from the polls, 1t is not at all improbable that the state will roll up a moderate sized plurality, for Taft this time. It may be added that ex-President Roosevelt'S savage attack upon the venerable Senator Edmunds has caused much indigna- tion in Vermont where this aged, high minded and eminent eX-senator is so highly and sc justly esteemed; and in this connection the following ex- tract from a letter from "a daughter of Vermont iii the Philadelphia Press has interest: "Go slow, Ted dy; Just bear in mind that Sem ator Edmunds was in official life all those years whereof he speaks, and knew exactly what he was talking about. Instead of charging him with ferring him to your platform for an answer, you should have explained why you and your predecessors did not put a stop to the dangerous growth of the trusts to their enor- nous strength instead of leaving 1t to ed gigantic proportions. It is not that your platform is not long enough to reach from the Atlantic to the Pa cif1c, but it will hardly cover from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Mexico.
 "But why did you choose Armaged- don as your battle ground? Rep hidim would have been so much more appropriate with Finn and Miss Ad- dams to stay up your hands Pos sibly you may not need them any more than you did Governor Hadley and La Toilette. Then, you know, Moses was a weary. He did not feel like a Bull Moose, probably nev- CT heard of the animal.
 'fNow just go little slow, Teddy, my boy concerning Senator Ed munds"