The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-02
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THE CAMPAIGN IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
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From the NJ Y. Herald.
The political campaign this year in New
Hampshire (Which on the Sth of March ter
inmates in the annual State election) is be-
coming remarkably interesting. Though the
voters of that State are nearly equally divided
between the Republicans and the Democrats,
the former, in every deliberate trial of
strength, have carried everything before
them. In the spring of 1868 the Democrats
moved heaven and earth and the waters
under the earth in the New Hampshire con-
test in order to secure the first gun of the
Presidential campaign against General Grant;
but they signally failed, and their failure was
generally accepted as foreshadowlng the cleo
tion of Grant in November. So now both
parties regard the result of the opening cleo
tion in New Hampshire, though purely local,
as something that will probably foreshadow
the general drift of this years elections,
which are to determine--in the House of
Representatives at least-the dominant party
in the next Congress.
In q square fight between the Republicans
and Democrats in New Hampshire there
would be little interest, because the result
would be accepted on all sides as foregone
conclusion. But with the introduction of the
disturbing forces of the temperance party and
the labor reform party, each with a State
ticket of its own, the success of the Republi-
cans is considered doubtful. The temperance
party in the granite hills is very feeble one
horse concern; but the labor reform party,
though a new thing, is, they say, dangerous
organization, and claims already the balance
of power. Both these side parties, the Re-
publicans contend, are mere bushwhackers
employed by the Democrats to break the Re-
publican line; and the Democrats themselves
accept these temperance and labor reformers
as desirable allies who may turn the tide of
the battle. Copperhead organ says:-'It
is evident that the recruits for these new fac
tions must come from the Republican ranks"
because Democrats are we'll enough salts
fed with their own party, and do not require
to look for morality and sympathy for labor
outside of it.
Hence there is some alarm in the Republi-
can camp, because if this labor reform party
shall succeed in gaining the balance of power
in this New Hampshire election it will proba-
bly, be felt as a balance of power in the elec-
tions of this year in all the Northern States.
This is, perhaps, the reason why General
Grant (who is particularly proud of New
Hampshire) has so promptly up there thrown
the weight of his administration into the Re-
publican scale. 1t is curious fact that Mr..
Dawes, of Massachusetts, whose recent speech
in Congress on the extravaganza of Grants
administration so delighted the Democracy,
should be the very man accepted by the Pre-
sident to set him right before the people Of
the Granite State. But 30 it is, and with the
initial campaign speech of Mr.. Dawes at
Nashua three important facts are proclaimed
or made apparent. First, that General Grant
is the head of the Republican party; second,
that in this position he is a candidate for a
second term; and third, that in this New
Hampshire campaign Mr.. Dawes speaks by
direct authority of the President, in behalf of
his administration, as the official embodiment
of his party.
Mr.. Dawes in his speech at Nashua (Satur-
day evening last) said:-'I was charged yes
terday afternoon by the President himself
with this message to the people of New
Hampshire, when I told him that I was
coming here. He told me to assure the
people of New Hampshire that this exhibit !
have made here of the successful collection
and the economical expenditure of money
during the present year is an earnest and q
pledge of what it shall be in the year to come.
Tell the people of New Hampshire that
during my administration there shall be nc
ascending scale of public expenditures; but
that whenever and wherever the closest public
scrutiny shall disclose the possibility of cut
ting off dollar, it shall be DONE" Of
course these authoritative declarations
brought down the house in repeated out
bursts of enthusiasm, as likewise did the
announcements that General Grant is the
head of the Republican party, and, "thanh
God, he can criticise it," that "a party that
can probe and uncover its sores Chose cadet
ships) can grow strong and healthy by self
probing" Nor was the cheerful spirit of the
meeting abated with the question, '.Did you
ever find the Democratic party in pursuit oi
any corruption within its own ranks except tc
fatten on it?" And Mr. Dawes made hi
each time in his remarks that ''the Demo
cratic party is the same that 1t was twenty
years ago" that 'it seems to take no note o
passing events that sit is still haunted by
the negro" and that it has no new claim
upon the confidence of the people. He for
got, however, to say that this party, up o
down, hit or miss, is always ready for battle
To sum up--General Grant, as the heat
and front of the Republican party, has pu
the claims of his administration before the
people of New Hampshire. Upon this issue
in fair contest with the Democracy, th
result would not be doubtful; but this new
organization called the Labor Reform part.
Ito say nothing of the Temperance party
may prove very important side issue diver
sion. If SO in New Hampshire, we may lool
for similar results in other States, and an
extensive arrangement of Republican calcu
lations from such causes in this years cleo
tions will be apt to upset all the calculation
OF party leaders and managers, as they no'
stand, for the Presidential succession. Such
incidentally, is the importance of the presen
political contest in New Hampshire.
THE DEMOCRATIC KEFORMERs-WIL
THEY CONQUER?
From them Y. sun
1t is the misfortune of the Republica
xnarfu Of this Critical Staua Of ito oo.aow A.