Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1904 — SURE CINCH FOR NOVEMBER. [ARTICLE]

SURE CINCH FOR NOVEMBER.

Big Republican Plurality In Vermont, Is Sure Indications of Roosevelt * Election.

The btate election in Vermont was held Tuesday. For 30 yearn past the Vermont state election om presidential years, has been a sure barometer as to what the presidential election would be in the following November, A Republican plurality above the normal, han always been followed by Republican national euooess in November.. At Tuesday’* election the Republican plurality was about 32,000 whicn is the hugest ever given except in the great democratic slump year of 1896, when the plurality was 40,000. Hsd the plurality£Tuesday been only 25,000, or below, it would have left grounds for the Democrats to hope to ruin, but when it reaches the bumper figure of 32,000 they might about as well throw up the sponge.