Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-05-13
The PHILADELPHIA Election.

Another of the Democrats strengthens ma
succumbed. Two years ago Mr.. Vaux, the now
defeated candidate, was elected Mayor by 45OO
majority. But now, when he demands ratlilca-
ton as the representative of the Leeompton Ad-
ministration, he is promptly discarded and re-
buked by 1900 majority. A very far political
revolution in two years What does it all
mean? Cincinnati, st. Louis, Dubuque, JET
ferson City, Albany, and Indianapolis, have all
pronounced against the ruling dynasty at Wash
ington and now Philadelphia, near the very
home of the President, joins her voice with sig
nal emphasis. If the Lecompton politicians dc
not appreciate the significance of these facts,
let them wait for the fall elections.
While local considerations had much to do
with the results of the election it is plain that
they were subordinated to the more general in
fuences growing out of national politics On
this point the following remarks of Forney's
Press are worthy of careful observation
''The causes which produced these results are
so plain that they may be understood by all
men. The test that the support of miserable
swindlo should be made the touchstone Of fidel-
ity to the Democratic party, and the scandal
Gus character Of this swindle itself, in their eff
feet upon other organizations, paralyzed the
Democracy on the one hand, and organized, con-
solidated and strengthened new party on the
other. The Federal patronage in this city has
been distributed on the same theory, of punish
in, mo who bovn bnap tpun n 11riupirln op1
of rewarding those who had deserted it. All
these causes made the people eager for chance
to speak out, and the election yesterday was the
first great occasion that presented to the voters
of this powerful city to express their senti-
ments.
Mr.. Vaux, the Democratic candidate for
Mayor, had given no public expression on the
disturbing question Of the day The Conven-
ton that nominated him refused to endorse Le-
compton. Although thousands of men voted
for him because of his silence on this question,
who never would have touched his ticket had
he taken ground for Lecompton, and although
he was backed by his own immense patronage,
and by that of the Federal Government, and by
the prestige of the party nomination, yet it is
clear that thousands Of Democrats stad away
from the polls, or openly voted against bin.
Mr. Henry, on the other hand was nominated
as the ant-Iecompton candidate. He and his
friends went before the people armed with the
record of the scandalous frauds in Kansas, the
prescriptions and tests Of the advocates of Le-
compton, and above all, with the creed of the
Democratic party on the subject of popular SOW
erelgnty. Their speakers and their writers
made this the burden of their appeals. The re-
suit is before the world.
Their appeals were answered by the loss to
the Democratic party of this proud metropolis ;
by the loss of thousands of old line Wings who
voted with us in 1856, on the strength of our
pledges by the loss of the German VOTE and
by the loss of many thousands of Democrats,
who either refused to go to the polls or voted
for Henry. As if to make bad worse, the En-
glish trick came in, just in time to aggravate
the public feeling, and to re-animate the ''Peo-
pies party.
Such is the penalty which the Democratic
party is compelled to pay for this unfortunate
and fatal policy