The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-06-17

win the electoral vote of Minnesota.
Much will depend. upon the outcome
of next weeks primaries but it will
not be forgotten that this is Roosevelt
territory and johnson was a prime IA |,
vorite and that in 1916, Woodrow VIII
son fell Just 397 votes short of over |
turning an Overwhelming Roosevelt
majority and taking the whole state
from Hughes
The conservatives in the state. on
the other hand, are rather Glad that
johnson was beaten, and thew are CON
fident Senator Harding need not worry
about the outcome in November. MANY
Irish Democrats are deeply orieved
oyer Johnson's defeat. They are
among theSmost bitter critics of the
Wilson administration and were ALI nre.
pared to enter the Republican narty
Just where they now will 90 is hard TOD
say but it is doubtful If thev win
vote the Democratic ticket unless
Something concrete is pledged toward
| the cause of Irish freedom And If
they do not vote the Democratic ticket.
lthey viii probably be found support
| ing Mr. LaFollette or the Hearst ticket
| if there is one. They received a rude
shock by the omission of an Irish
plank from the Republican platform
ard are now waiting to see what the
| Democrats shall promise at San Fran
i cisco.
The wet and dry issue will also
enter indo st. Paul 5 decision This is
a town of decidedly. moist proclivities.
In all probability Democrat will be
Iisent to congress- fer one Of the Demo
cratic aspirants has announced himself
on a platform which he himself calls
'swringing wet" ANY such statement
or hint of the same thing by the head
of the Democratic ticket would win
votes here though it would lose votes
elsewhere in the state.
johnson would have been an ideal
Republican candidate for Minnesota
, He was damp enough and radical
enough and anti-Wllson enough and
anti league of nations enough to catch
most everybody. This state started ont
very favorably inclined toward the
of course advocated by Republican
; newspapers, few Of whom saw any ter
rible menace in the idea Of a league
But Hiram johnson came up here anG
started things in the opposite direc
) ton.
Business men and conservative Dem
!, ocrats and Republicans see great on
portunities in the election of Harding
{ Radicals, and they are numerous here
Y see only confirmation of the methods
) OF the capitalistic' regime which
. they palaver about so often hereabouts
; They call the Republican old guard.
who chose Harding, the real minorit,
s tying te rule the majority.
Conservative Democrats and Repub
u Leans fully expect a Harding victor
throughout the county The reletio
against the Wilson adminstrat on
9 even greater than il was a wear ,,re
The request for mandate over Al
Il menia Judged l'y the public sent linen
here. at least, was an ill-advised NOV,
{ 1t was looked upon rs proof of che m
: gument that the league Of matte
!" meant the sending Of Americaf troor
abroad The Democratic PRESIDENT.
:. nominee will have to give -cohvincir
y evidence of an intention to steer clea
= OF observation-disclosures hold the Dem,
= cratic vote-and, as said before, hole
: ing the. DemoC,ccratie. vote Of 1916 migl
mean Democratic victory here if
seems likely the Republican party
split by the Vaccinations Of the No
partisan league.