Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1904 — ELECTION IN VERMONT. [ARTICLE]

ELECTION IN VERMONT.

Republican* Carry the State by an Uri» usually Large Plurality. Cloudless skies and cool, bracing sir brought out a large rote Tuesday throughout Vermont. Retains st midnight indicated that the Republican plurality would go over 30,000, as early returns received showed a falling off of at least 10 per cent from the Democratic vote of four years ago. The State officers elected are as follows ; Govencr —Charles J. Bell. Lieutenant Governor Charles H. Stearns. Treasurer—John L. Bacon. of State—Frederick G. Fleetwood. Auditor of Accounts —Horace F. Graham. The two Representatives to Congress elected are D. J. Foster of Burlington and Kithed Hawkings of Btrattleboro. The makeup of the Legislature is overwhelmingly Republican, Insuring the re-elec-tion of United States Senator Proctor. One hundred and fifty towns out of 246 in the whale State give Bell 20,000 plurality, which means his total plurality will touch the 30,000 mark. Great efforts by the Democrats had been made to cut this plurality below 20.000. The high vote tor Bell is inspiring to Republicans, who assert it Indicates a Republican national victory. Only once before has there been a Republican plurality at a September election exceeding that Indicated by the returns, and that was in 1896. Since 1896 the pluralities in presidential years have been above 30,000, but never before. There were four tickets In the field this year—Republican, Democratic, Prohibitionist and Socialist The party leaders say that the labor vote went tor Bell. Mr. Bell, who is a farmer, got the full party vote of four years ago, and in addition held a part of the gold Democratic vote. It is probable also that 1,000 or more Democrats who are farmers voted for Bell. The Socialist vote did not exceed 1,000, although the ticket mads some headway in the large towns. The Prohibition vote was about stationary. Following is Vermont’s September election vote for twenty years: Repub- Demo- Republican cratlc llcan Tear. vote. vote, plurality. 1904 48,728* 10,444* 32,279* 1002 81,864 7,864 24,300 1900 48,441 17,129 31.312 1898 88,363 14,686 23,809 1890 53,240 14,858 88,891 1894 42,063 14,142 28,521 1802 88,918 19.210 19,702 1890 83,402 19,229 14,108 1888 48.522 19.527 28.905 1880 37,700 17,187 20,522 1884 42,522 19,820 22,702 •Estimated.