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Show M PERSUASIVE ORATORY. M In the presence of that 32,000 or so Republican B plurality in Vermont due credit should ho given H to two . famous orators who undoubtedly had a M great deal to do with rolling it up. We refer to m Bourke Coclu'an and Edward M. Shepard, of M New York. Those two went to Vermont with B the Republican pamphlet containing Secretary B Hay's and Hlihu Root's speeches as a text for H their oratory. They set their intellectual teeth m into this pamphlet and tore it to smithereens in H the presence of large but bewildered audiences M who had not heard what offices Hay and Root H were running for. H Shopard's speech was published in full in 1 New York City, filling about eight columns of M the newspapers. The mugwump editors stepped 1 around it with their hats off and said in subdued MM voices tliat the least to bo expected of such an II arpeal to tho mind and conscience of Vermont H was a revolution that would nearly or quite wipe m out tho usual Republican plurality. When they B read the returns on Tuesday night they were M reminded of this touching and beautiful poem: M "Mary had a little lamb, H It's fleece was white as snow, H She took it to Pittsburg M And now look at the d thing." H The mugwump editor of the Now York Times H with these lines ringing in his ears, turned to K his desk and wrote for his paper the next H morning: H "Tho Republican plurality in Vermont does H not warrant any inference that the sentiment of the Northeast has undergone any revolu- B tionary change on account of the return of the I Democratic party to sound doctrine on the Bfl money question." WM His fellow sufferer on the Evening Post who BH was also looking at the d n thing wrote that Bfl "it would be idle to deny that the State elec- H tion in Vermont in a presidential year has H hitherto been an accurate index of the drift of H public sentiment throughout the nation," but all H the same he did not consider "yesterday's viotory H a reason why all hope of Judge Parker's election H should be abandoned." Most of the hope had H gone you see but a little remnant. All that it is H necessary for Parker to do is to turn the country H around during the next two months. If he can B -do that he will be elected. B The moral of Vermont for the Democrats m eeetns to be to let tho apeeohes of Hay and Root M Won, to forbid all their campaign orators to H advertise them by mentioning them. The more H they are talked about the more they are read H and the reading of them is unhealthy for the H Democratic party. |