The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-16
FIRST EDITION
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
lHow the Result of the Election IL Regarded
Opiniens of Kopublicau Papers

himself. his san domingo scheme, which has
been opposed by the ablest and most influential
part of the Republican press all over the coun-
try, has, as Tuesdays vote shows, alienated
from him. and, what is of more serious conse-
quence, from the Republican party, great body
of Republican voters.
The people of New Hampshire do not ap-
prove of the violent and extra constitutional
measures the President has taken in the San
"a Domingo scheme; they do not approve of the
Presidents interference in the organization of
the Senate, or the manner in which, at his
Instance, the Foreign Relations Committee
was so packed as to lessen the opposition TO a
San Domingo treaty; they do not believe
that such men as Morton, Chandler Butler
and Cameron are fit leaders for the Republ-
can party; they do not believe that Presi-
dent is wise who insults such men as Sumner
Cox, and Wells, and rejects the advice of such
men as Senators Trumbul Schurz, and Wilson.
The elections of last fall, which would have
were not needed by the President. He pursued
his chosen course, regardless OF the warnings
of those, who, during his whole career, had
proved themselves his most earnest and disin-
terested friends. And now comes New Hamp-
shire-a State which has not gone Democratic
Cfor sixteen years, and abandons the President to
whom, in 1868, it gave nearly seven thousand
ajority.
M Y. Commercial Adrertiser.1
The event is important and suggestive. 1t
houses TO enthusiasm the hopes of the Demo-
crats, who see already President of their own
in the White House in 1S73 and who build upon
the campaign of 1872 thorough reconstruction
of Congress in their interest. Whatever be the
eause, it must be removed, and wherever in the
Republcan party there are chickering's or dis
sensions they must cease, and unity and har-
mony must be restored to reproduce the mutual
confidence In which we went to victory under
Lincoln and Grant. We cannot ignore the full
significance of the surrender of the Federal
Government to the Democrats. 1t may not
mean war again, but it means thorough dis
Hturbance of past legislation, and revival of
Guestions now supposed to be dead and buried.
(lt means an assault upon the public credit, and
the casting OF suspicion upon the integrity of
The nation.
From, the Lancaster (Pa) Erpress.l
If this rude awakening from the dream that
1.-The independent voters of the Republican party
can be rallied as a unit at elections to support
policy like that of San Domingo annexation,
or to give their sanctien to such an outrage as
the removal of Sumner who is Justly regarded
as the abest and truest Republican of them ALL
shall have the effect of inducing the President to
reconsider his intentions and abandon the odious
annexation scheme, together with the greatly
mistaken idea that it is within his province
to regulate the composition of the Con-
gressional committees in order that they
may be made to conform to his personal
wishes-then the present misfortune in New
Hampshire will not have been suffered
in vain, and similar disasters in other States
may be averted. The Republican party is COM
posed largely of men who think for themselves.
The mere fact that ticket is called "Republi-
can" is not enough of itself to unite them in its
support with that zeal and unanmty which are
necessary in order to insure success. The Con-
necticut election takes place within two or three
weeks of the present time. Unless the false
steps at Washington which paralyzed the efforts
and destroyed the hopes OF the Republicans OF
New Hampshire are abandoned, and an entirely
different policy inaugurated, there can be no
ground for hope that the result there will be
more favorable than that we are now called to
deplore.
LNtlcark (N J) Adrertissr.1
The family jar between the administration
and Senator Sumner is credited as the occasion
nf sf fn1y ho6 inftt
ence on the New England mind. Many of the
New England Republicans felt hurt in the house
of their friends at his deposition from the leader
ship of the Senate. 1t is quite possible thai
many of them voted intellgenty to rebuke the
administration for its supposed part in his re-
moval. But the conception is not altogether
correct. The reformatory mission Of the Repub'
lican party is pretty well ended. 1t has already
destroyed the gigantic evils which summoned il
into the field, and now there come lull and
calm in which the questions of debt, finance
tariff and economical administration are taking
precedence. We cannot disguise the existence
of crisis in the life of the party. 1t has los
its old power of appeal to the future, and an ap
peal to the past, in republic, is of no account
What the Republican party needs now is a cool
headed, steadfast financial policy, a constan
exposition to the public of what it has done
and is doing in that direction, Ian absolute
purity of administration, and, finally foreigl
policy of annexation which can call out heat
temper, and enthusiasm enough to bring its slug
gish vote to the polls. Such policy is worl
first shot from the picket line, 10 be followed b.
the long roll and the serried array.
[PrOUidsnee tR. ~ JournaLl
The foolish and unjustifable bolt again;
General Stevens weakened the integrity OF tn
party; and then for the last few days the Reput
1ican papers and speakers have thought 1t be'
to join the Democrats in an outcry against th
President and the majority of the Republica
Senators-against the administration in fac
by which the party must stand or fall. Th
leading Republican daily in the State on Monda
teemed with such expressions as these-"indis
nifty heaped by Senator Morton and his ass
ciates upon Senator Sumner perpetrato
and instigators of that proceeding, includin
President Grant himself '-"deliberate consp
racy"-'personal government not to be tolerated
and so on, with hardly dozen lines pertine
to the pending contest in the State. The Repu
lican leaders seem to have had an idea tn
the badge and assuming the slogan of the
enemies
concord IN. H. Statesman.
Had Charles Sumner not been forced fro
his place as Chairman of the Senate Commit
on Foreign Relations, the Republican yo
would have been larger; had the San Domin
scheme been left to the operation of natni
causes, instead of being pushed with unreaso
able persistence, 1t would have been larger; h
Congress succeeded in restoring our commer'
to the extent and Importance it had befo
the Rebellion, 1t would have be-
larger; had some of the land grant bills, no
ever wise and Just in themselves been discree
deferred until the public understanding b
grown up to them, 1t would have been larg
and had all these causes OF embarrassment oe
withheld, we might have carried the State
nearly the usual majority, in spite OF the
moralization produced in the party by
forcing upon ii of unpopular nominations, ma