Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1908 — THE VERMONT ELECTION. [ARTICLE]

THE VERMONT ELECTION.

The Republican campaign managers are so hard up for comfort that they pretend to get hilarious over the voting in Vermont. That state always gives a Republican majority. The average Republican majority for the past thirty years at the September elections has been 28,500. Four years ago it was 31,557. In 1900 it was 31,319. In 1896 it was 38,391. This year the Republicans get about 27,000, but the Democrats make a gain of fifteen members of the legislature. All of the election machinery in Vermont is in the hands of the Republicans and that party, through its national and state committees, made tremendous efforts to get a big vote, using piles of money’ and a swarm of outside speakers. A press dispatch from Chicago comments on the result as follows:

“It is apparent that this year the decrease In the Republican vote in Vermont has been greater than at any time since 1892. But it is further to be noted that In years prior to this the Democratic national committee has paid especial attention to the state of Vermont because of the early date at which its election was held and the moral effect of the result of it upon the national election. This year, chiefly because of the extreme lateness of the national convention, the Democratic national committee did nothing in Vermont. Not one speaker was sent there, nor was any literature of a national distributed there. The Democrats of Vermont were compelled to work out their own salvation, and the result they achieved in view of the handicap under which they labored Is decidedly encouraging. "The Republican national committee which has maintained its publicity bureau constantly during the four years' interval between elections, and which has innumerable able speakers drawing salaries from the national and the state governments, was able to flood the state with oratory and with documents. “In view of all these facts the one amazing thing, the one significant thing, is that Jhe Republican plurality instead of being enormously increased has been materially cut down. It is an omen of success for the Democratic party.”