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Show VERMONT'S ELECTION. " Vermont is holding an election today. The state is as safely Republican as Texas is reliably Democratic. Not in a presidential year since the Republican party was organized, has Vermont voted in September for other than a Republican governor. But when the state's Republican plurality has fallen below normal, almost invariably in-variably the nation has gone Democratic. t Vermont is the home of the trusts and the abiding place of the protected interests. The big interests dominate tho affairs of the state and coercion is practiced in the factory towns. There are two states in the union claimed for Taft Vermont and Utah. Had the Progressives more time in which to make a campaign, they might have reduced the Republican plurality of 29,000, given four years ago, to less than 20,000. As it is, the Progressive chairman chair-man of the campaign in that state, says he will be pleased with rs total vote of 9,000 in that borough state. |