Show WHAT WHAT WHAT-IT IT MEANS The of the Vermont Victor Victory While it would be the sheerest folly tolly for for- Republican an managers to accept the Vermont victory as a certain augury of ot Roosevelt's e election next November or to relax in their efforts to insure that result it cannot be denied that the 32 plurality is as a most reassuring and i significant fact That this is so is not I because a succession of statistical coincidences coincidences coin coon where a shrinkage of at the Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican plurality in Vermont in September September September Sep Sep- has presaged a national Demot Demo- Demo t the e influences nfl clin individual a units in one State in this election are national in their nature and are effective throughout the republic If H the issue isue in the November election were confined to the tariff question it would be impossible to infer inter from Vermont's Vermont's Vermont's Ver Ver- monts mont's Republican plurality what would waud be the drift in New York Connecticut or ar Indiana because the voters voters voters vo vo- vo- vo of ot these three States study the tariff question through very different spectacles from fram those of ot the farmers of ot Vermont From the day in 1861 when her late Senator Justin S. S Morrill introduced in in- the war revenue tariff measure which bore his name in the House of ot Representatives Vermont has never wavered wavered wavered ered in her support of ot the Republican pol policy cy of ot protection Other States have wobbled as the politicians have played upon the credulity of their industrial industria classes but Vermont has stood as AI firm as her own everlasting hills But Bat ut in the hJ pr present sent campaign the Democracy has chosen to thrust Its traditional traditional traditional tra tra- clamor for tar free trade into the background and has arrayed itself against the American spirit of af aggressive aggressive aggressive sive progressive expansion of which Th Theodore odare Roosevelt is the living em em- bodh ent To-day To the Republicans stand for national national national na na- action advancement and life Ute the Democrats for national inaction retrogression retrogression retrogression retro retro- and death The issue is between DOING and DONT Such an issue appeals to voters in Vermont precisely as as as' it appeals to those o of Oregon or Arkansas The restricted local view and interest is swallowed up iu in the broader prospect and men vote vate as Americans and not as citizens of this or ar that State To this issue Oregon last June responded responded responded re re- re- re Go ahead and Vermont merey merely merely mere mere- ly y echoes back across the continent Go ahead I Even Arkansas shows signs of waking from the lotus lotus eating eating dream of ot Democracy Democracy Demo Demo- cr cracy that a nation natian can I advance without without without with with- out exertion and force by time marking-time in front of af the marble effigies of af Jefferson Jefferson Jeffersn Jeffer Jeffer- son son sn and Jackson who if it they were alive would be marching in the ranks of ot action and progress This then is the significance of ot the Vermont election that on an the issue contained contaIned contained con con- in the word ward Forward I personified personified fied fled if it our opponents will h have ve it so in Theodore Roosevelt represented in every ery line of ot financial industrial and diplomatic achievement demanding increased increased increased in in- creased expenditures for the army the navy the postal service and every department department department de de- de- de of at government care of at th the peoples people's interests Vermont Interests Vermont represents the onward trend of ot American thought This and not the mere fact that Vermont Ver Vermont mont went Republican by votes gives an assurance of a great Republican can victory next November |