The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1867-04-13
CONNECTICUT REDEEMED.

4 The best news of the week and news which
will make glad the heart of every Democrat,
is that of the recent spleudid Democratic tri-
umph IN Gonnecticus resuItingin the election
of Governor and three OF the four members
of Congress to which that State is entitled.
The State Legislature is also very different
in complexion from that Of last year, when it
stood Senate-Democrats 8; Radicals, 10 /;
House-Democrats, "a Radicals, 143. 1t
now stands: Senate-Democrats, 10; Radi-
Gals, II !; House-Democrats III; Radicals,
f27. But it is the triumph in the Congress
ional ticket that We hail with greatest delight.
| It is in that branch of the Government the
people are now most interested, for States
have, either by passive, slaYish submission
lin the North, or by unjust, brutal oppression
in the South, become mere creatures of Con
gress, and are governed more by external
pressure than internal influences. Therefore
| it is in Congress where the corrective hand
lis most particularly needed in the great
emergency, and once there shall be changes
sufficient IN that body to take the control of
affairs from the clutch of-the Radicals, and
repose it in the hands of statesmen and pa
triots who revere and will abide by and re-
store the old Constitution as the founders of
the Republic framed and established it, and
the return of genuine peace, wholesome laws,
general prosperity and true national glory
will be assured.
Connecticut has, in the recent election, en-
phatically put the seal of her condemnation
upon the Radical policy in Congress. TWAS
great triumph, most important victory
To carry the Radical ticket, her own Radical
members of Congress, Radical Senators, Rep
resentatives, and noted orators and election
eerers from other States, all went to the as
sistance of the Radical cause in that State,
and money was prodigally strewn from one
in the Radical line. The Democracy received
little aid from the outside. 1t was upon the
noble efforts and never-fagging zeal, the
pure devotion and unfinching determination
of her own gallant Democracy, that Connec-
ticut depended, and never was confidence in |
the dark hour, with only ray of hope gleam-
ing to cheer the spirits of the faithful, never.
we say, was confidence better reposed, for
a glorious purpose, than it was in the hands
of the Democracy of Connecticut in the re-
cent important campaign. Like heroes they
battled, and in the face of allied enemies,
who came armed with highest Congressional
power-now the supreme power of the land,
with the promises of Offices and large sums
Of money to bribe and to corrupt, with men
aces to intimidate, and favors to lure on the
voters to the support of the Radical ticket
in spite of all this mighty array of highest
power, of wealth and patronage,
The honest, jealous, sterling Democrats of
that New England State, maintained their
ground, and finally achieved anoble triumph.
We may be sure her naturalzed citizens,
Irish, Germans and Others, stood by the cause
If Democracy and genuine republican liberty.
IN the past few years many of them, there as
elsewhere in the United States, had been
rheedled and deceived into the support of
he Radical cause, by false pledges, false rep
RESERVATIONS of every kind. They have wit
lessed the per6dy of that party, they know
,he rottenness of Radical professions, the
of the Radical policy, the
oigotry and absolute selfshnessof the Rad
cal character. And these once deluded Irish
Ind Germans have left the ranks of that per-
idious, corrupt, malignant party forever,
md returned again to that old Democratic
in which odious determinations
ire not made on account of the accident of
birth, of religious belief, or sectional resi-
lence; in which the poor are protected from
he undue power and influence of the rich
n which the measure of the man is of true
merit and honest worth, and not according
o his worldly wealth or power to corrupt
he elections. They are back again In the 4
Democratic fold, where true friends welcome /
md greet them. And they, and their fellow
;itlzens of the Democratic party in every I
section of the land with them will mite in q
shouting hearty, vigorous, gladstone hurrahs, /
or Connecticut redeemed! aaJa .t Fl