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Show TRUTH. THE VERMONT ELECTION. The call for former Senator Prank j. Cannon to go to Maine to speak and the efforts made by the Democratic National Committee to put able speakers in both that state and in Vermont has caused some of the Republicans here to wonder. They ask the question: What is the use of sending speakers into those two states, which are so overwhelmingly Republican; the Democrats cannot hope to carry them? All of which Is true, but the Democrats do not expect to carry them; that party is looking for the "moral effect a reduced majority in both would have. As is well known the Vermont election is held on the 6th of next month; the Maine election on the 12th. For many years people have looked to the September election in Vermont as furnishing the indications of the probable results of the presidential election. This year the state elects its governor and state officers September G. That the old theory of the significance of the election still holds is proved by the request of the Democrats of the state that Chairman Taggart send them speakers, and also u by the intimation that Chairman will be somewhat disturbed if the plurality falls below 25,000. There are some conditions existing that cause the Republicans anxiety, notably a strike in the Proctor marble quarries. So the news from Vermont on the night of September 6 will be looked for with much interest. It is a fact that in every Presidential year since 1872, when the Republican plurality in Vermont has fallen below 25,000, the Democrats two months later have carried states enough to have won under present conditions. In 1872, for instance, the year of the Greeley catastrophe, the Republicans elected their governor by a plurality of 25,333 and Grant was elected. In the next presidential year, Cor-telyo- 1876, the September plurality was 23,-36- 0. The Democrats did not indeed elect their president that year, but they carried enough states to elect him under present conditions, winning in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana, and losing by a margin of only one electorial vote. For the purpose of this calculation, therefore, we must count the result in 1876 as proving the rule. In 1880 the Republican plurality for governor was 26,603, and in November Garfield was elected. Four years later the plurality in September was 28,885, and we had another Republican victory in November when General Harrison was elected. In 1892 the Republican plurality sank to 19,702, and in November Grover Cleveland swept the country. In the next two presidential elections the Republican pluralities were enormous at both the September and November elections. The only trouble about a rule of this sort is that it may fail to work in any given year. For all rules have their exceptions. The fact that the theory has held in eight national elec-ion- s gives no positive assurance that t will hold in the next one. Yet for hese years it has been a fact that when the Republicans of Vermont were not interested enough to carry heir state plurality above 25,000, the Republicans of the nation were not nterested enough to elect their presThis means that the normal cient, )lurality in Vermont is about 25,000. When it falls below normal the pluralities in the close and doubtful states do so, too, and with fatal effect. There is one great difficulty about Ills Interpretation, however, and that is as to the significance of a plurality less than 25,000, and yet greater than any of those in the years in which the Democrats have won in the doubtful states. In 187G, 1884 and 1892, the pluralities were, respectively, 23,GG0, 22,704, and 19,702. Suppose this year there should be one of 24,500 would that suffice? 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