Show ELECTION IN VERMONT Republicans Win by Decreased Plurality Plu-rality Democrats Gaining In legislature White River Junction VtThe Republicans Re-publicans won tho election in Ver imont on Tuesday by carrying tho state for Lieutenant Governor George H Prouty of Newport for governor by about 28000 votes over James Burke of Burlington his Democratic opponent Tho plurality was tho smallest In a presidential year since J1892 when It was only 17956 and was followed by a Democratic national nation-al victory but it was larger than In 1888 and only slightly less than In 1900 There was falling off In four years of about 8 per cent in the Republican Re-publican vote while tho Democratic vote fell oft about 2 per cent Tho Independence League appeared for tho first tlmo and polled about 1000 votes while the Prohibition and Socialist vote remained about the same An unusually largo number of local contests for members of the legislature although bringing out a heavy vote and resulting In Demo cratlc gains in the lower branches ofl Ithe legislature apparently had no hearing on tho gubernatorial fight I I I As Vermont Is the first state to voto during the presidential campaign thoro was much interest throughout the country in tho size of the Republican Repub-lican plurality |