Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-10-16
THE ELECTIONS.

HG AzAECllONS.
The recent elections in Pennsylvania
and other States, exhibit results fully uT
to the expectations that had been formed
in advance by all liberal, progressive and
enlightened citizens. Republican princi-
pies and policy have been generally sus.
tanned with vigor and intelligence. accom-
panied only with determinations in iso
lated cases where it seemed to be required
by the public interests. Assaulted as the
National Administration and Congress
have been, with measureless yituperarion
and malignity, public sentiment has nobly
come forward to attest its abiding conii'
dence in President Grant, his constltu-
tional advisers and the statesmanllke pollcy
of his Administration and that OF Congress.
There need be no hesitation in drawing
this conclusion from the returns OF this
great Republican victory, because the as
sult upon the national measures and pol
lev of the party has been unremitted, I'M
scrupulous and reckless.
Nothing that partisan venom could
bring to bear as a means of injuring the
character of the President and of his adj
visers, and of making the Administration
and Congress appear before the country
as corrupt, selfish, ambitious. desperate,
despotic or lawless, has been neglected.
and the warfare has been carried to such
an extent that even men accustomed to
the extremes of American partisan strife
have been amazed. Apparently the chief
result of this abuse has been to inflame
the minds of Democratic party hacks and
to produce an excitement that has cul-
minated in riot, bloodshed and loss of life.
certainly, SO far from making any con-
verts from republicanism to democracy.
this contest has obviously rather increased
the republican vote by adding to it the bal
lots of indignant, patriotic and Disguised
democrats.
Pennsylvania. Ohio and Iowa have
spoken in a language not easily mistaken.
The people Of these three great common
wealths felt how much depended upon the
issue, and they have acted together with
an American vim and independence that
generally give to their utterances proceed
ing presidential election decisive char.
acter. Pennsylvania has usually been
the chosen battle ground between the
great national parties, and hence all the
attention this time, as usual, concentrated
upon the issue here. The North Ameri-
can says the democratic canvass has been
managed with all the partisan skill posi-
BILE under the circumstances, but the awful
depravity revealed by the developments of
Tammany corruption in New York, and
Kukluk outrages at the South, left nc
chance even for the best management to
succeed.
The American says the republican State
ticket has swept the Old Keystone State
with majority that removes her from the
list of doubtful States in the next Presi-
dental election. Pennsylvania hangs the
republican banner upon her outer walls.
Her voice is again for republican rule,
which has done so much for her, and
which has wrought such wonders for the
whole nation. She repeats emphaticalIy
her past Endorsements of the party record,
the party policy, the party leaders. Her
voice is again for President Grant, and she
bids republican Congress speed onward
with the further measures yet in store.
Pennsylvania stamps her unqualified ap-
proval upon the reduction of the national
debt, principal and interest, and also of
the State debt. She approves ofthe great
policy of protection Of American industry
and has no faith in free trade or any of its
DISCUSSES.
From the Bangor Wing.
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