Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-06
States Small Foreign P0pu-
IatiOn Believed Little
Aid to Smith.
FLOOD RELIEF SEEN
AS HELP TO HOOVER
Water Power Issue Expected to Be
Vital-Coolidge Backing
Expected.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Staff Correspondent of The Star.

MANCHESTER, N. H, September g..
-Republicanism seems to be as flrnHy
imbedded in the people of Vermont as
the granite in its hills. This year will
prove no exception and the State will
cast its electoral vote for Hoover and
Curtis. The appeal which Gov. Smith
Democratic presidential nominee, makes
in some of the New England States
does not register in Vermont, or If it
registers it is in a much less degree.
Vermont has a Yankee population.
The percentage of foreign-born and OF
citizens of other stock is very small
compared with such percentages IN
New Hampshire, Massachusetts ana
Rhode Island. for example. The 1920
census showed 307 ,291 native residents
of Vermont and 44.526 foreign born.
Mr., Hoover. a little less than year
ago. was hurried to Vermont and Ne"
Hampshire to aid in bringing order out
of chaos. that followed in the wake OF
the disastrous floods of the Connecticut
and other rivers Never before had the
people of these States been so hard nit
by flood waters. Mr.. Hoover came as
the special representative OF PRESIDENT
Coolidge to the flood districts. just as
he won friends in the hood area oi
Mississippi River months earlier. SO MI.
Hoover won the admiration and esteem
of many of the people OF the northern
New England States.
Their nrohlem was not so vast as
the problem which confronted the peo-
pie of the Mississippi Valley, nor was
the flood conditions so protracted. But
MIR. Hoover's contact was an aid ana MS
work in the region is likely to be en-
phasiZed in the coming campaign.
There are Democrats in Vermont, some
of them Democrats by inheritance from
a long line of forbears, but 1t would
be lust about as astonishing for Ver-
mont to go Democratic in natlonai
election as it would for Mississippi or
Georgia to go Republican 1T just
isn't done"
G. o. p. Long Victor.
President Coolidge, a native of the
Green Mountain State carried 1t by a
vote of 80,498 to 1924 for Davis, the
Democratic nominee, and 5,964 for La
Toilette, the independent progressive.
President Harding in 1920 had vote
of 68,212 to 2O,919 for Cox, his Demo-
cratic opponent. And Republican VIC
tories 90 back in an unbroken chain
to the DAYS of the Civil War and the
birth of the Republican party. Nor
does it appear that Alfred E. Smith
is going to smash these political prece-
dents this year. Vermont has its wet
spots and wet sentiment. although 1t
is a dry State politically. 1t has It's
quota of foreign born citizens, of whom
24.8O8 in 1920 we're set down as Cana
dians-moSt of them French-Cana-
dians. Smith may pick up votes among
those foreign born citizens, but he is
likely to lose some of the dry Demo-
Gratis, and predictions are made by
some observers that Vermont will go
as strongly Republican or more so than
in the past.
The Green Mountain State Is State
of farms. It is great dairy country,
with the largest value of dairy products
per capita of any State in the Union.
But it's crops cover a wide range from
tobacco and all the grains. It's chief
mineral wealth is in its quarries, gran
ite and marble, and it leads all the
States in its output of these stones.
While 1t has some textile mills, the num-
ber is small and depression in the mills
does not constitute as acute a problem
England States.
Rapid Recovery.
Despite the fact that Vermont and
New Hampshire we're visited by floods
only last Fall, the progress toward re-
covery in these States has been rapid
| indeed. Highways have been rebuilt,
many bridges. and the farm lands of
the meadows which were damaged by
the flood waters have been put in shape
again.
Vermont's loss ran into many millions
| far more than did the loss of New
Hampshire due to the flood. Mr.. Hoover
gave the impression that the problem
growing out of the floods would be
carefully and sympathetically studied by
| the Federal Government during his stay
in New England but the people of these
States, instead of asking the Federal
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