The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-12
The New Hampshire Election.
from ire N. 7. Herald.

from Ire ~ T. Herald.
Last spring the Republicans OF New Hamp.
shire, three months and over in advance OF
the Chicago Convention, fought their state
fight under the banner of General Grant as
their Presidential candidate against the field.
That State campaign, therefore, was accepted
as the touehstone of Grants popularity. The
State had always been closely divided and
sharply contested between the two parties.
and from the general drift of the elections
Rsst and West of 1867 the Democrats were
encouraged with the evidences of a popular
reaction which might give them the initial
victory of 1868. The Republicans appreciated
their danger. The Democrats were inspired
with the hope of defeat of Grant in his first
preliminary battle. Consequently the State
canvass in New Hampshire last spring was
contested foot by foot on both sides, and every
accessible voter was brought out; for the re-
suit was to be the first gun for the Presidency
under the banner of Grant. The election
marked return of the popular tide to the
Republicans, and dissipated all doubts as to
the availability of General Grant and as to
the action of the Chicago Convention.
This year New Hampshire has been called
upon to speak first among the States her OPT
nion of President Grants inaugural and upon
his policy of a Cabinet of his own choosing.
The result-a more decisive victory than that
of last Maroh-was on election night substan-
TALLY covered by the cengratulatory speech of
the Governor-elect, 0nslow Stearps. He said
-"It is q reafirmation of New Hampshire's
attachment to Republican principles, and of
her determination to stand by President
Grant in his declared purposes of introducing
economy, retrenchment, and reform into
every department OF the Government. As
New Hampshire was the first State to formally
present the name of General Grant to the
nation, it is fitting that her people should
send as a greeting the first endorsement of
his administration. Very good, Governors
see that you stick to your text, for the admins
tration will be fighting the Philistines of the
whisky rings and other Treasury plundering
rings before long, and the cries of the
wounded will be apt to startle the radical junta
OF Congress.
Connecticut comes next-April 5. The cleo
tion here, as in New Hampshire, includes the
State delegation to the lower house of the
Forty-fr or present Congress. New Hamp-
shire returns an unbroken Republican delega-
tion. In the last Congress, expiring the 4!h of
March, the Democrats of Connecticut had three
Grant last November completely upset the
State, carrying three out of the four Congress
sional districts. What is the prospect now
The Democrats profess to have some hope oil
recovering the State on the negro suffrage
issue embraced in the pending fifteenth
amendment to the Constitution. They are
making their fight on that question and the
| Democratic dry bones of State rights. We ap
| prehend, however, that the Democratic party
| on these old Bourbonic ideas is dead and done
| for, and that it's reconstruction will depend
upon the coming events of the new admins
| tIatiop.