The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-15
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
yes,erdn,,s Defent-Its Lessop

New IldmDSUlIO is always heDuOllCu0 on q
residential election; often close on any other
But it has not gone Democratic since 1854, until
4 yesterday; when we seem to have lost the
Governor, all the Congressman, the Council
kDnd probably the Senate; while the House is
only claimed for the Republicans by a majority
Df from ten to twenty, in body of over three
hundred members. On the vote from 165 towns
Lhe Republicans gain on last years vote $780,
kYhile the Democrats gain 3436, q net Demo-
ratio gain of 2f76.
New Hampshire has not become Democratic
This vote means mainly, if not wholly Repub-
ican apathy born of over-confdence and the
continuous triumphs of sixteen years, and Re.
publican disaffecton, engendered by local
luarrels, liquor, and the unwise and untimey
{Sumner trouble. 1t is not by the continuance
of such causes that parties are saved; and if the
lesson is to be learned in time for 1872 it has
hot been given us n month too soon. Let us
bake it for warning aud Indictment, and close up
Sthe rdukS.-N Y. Tribune.
New Hampshire Eepadiates General Gram!
New Hampshire, which leads the elections of
the present year, has done nobly. The fruits of
khe election are Democratic Governor and
State Senator's Democratic Senate, and pro-
Ibabya Democratic House, and certainly one
Xbnd a reasonable hope of two of the three men,
bers of Congress. Nothing could be more op-
portune or cheering than this Democratic victory
In New England State which has been
steadily Republican for the last fifteen years,
land gave General Grant nearly 1000 majority in
the Presidential election. Had the election
taken place n week later, even this satisfactory
result would have been greatly improved and
the State would have rebuked the President by
1868. The displacement of Senator Sumner is
too recent to have had much influence on this
election. In the agricultural towns remote
from the railroads; the people of New Iamp
shire have not yet heard Of it. They depend on
weekly papers for their news, which by the
ktime it reaches them is from eight to thirteen
kdays old. Had the election been deferred one
week the whole State would have been
al agrrI,f n1
|stigation of the President, has been done to
= favorite Senator and thousands of Republicans
would have eagerly expressed their Indignation
1 ind disgust through the ballot-boz.
The political year begins auspicously for the
fDemocratic party. New England is the strong
fhold and headquarters of radicalism, and we
have begun the year by redeeming New Eng
land State which has been uniformly Republican
| ever since the Republican party was formed.
This heralds revolution in Massachusetts and
Ebll New England. To be sure, Massachusetts,
fwould have been called, a few months ago, the
hardest of all the States to conquer. But, for
J tunately for the Democratic party, there is no
Dther State that has such list of grievances
bgainst General Grant. Her State pride has
been stung to the quick. She has Sumner to
lbyenge, Motley to avenge, Sights to Boutwell,
Hto redress, the compulsory resignation!of Judge
N1Hoar to resent; and the combined influence of
these men, with the invectiyes of Wendell
Phillips and the silence of Wilson, will teach
tirant memorable lesson as soon as Massa-
|
: khe has followed the example of New Hamp-
shire, Dagon will have fallen in bis own temple
The result in New Hampshire yesterday will
be felt in every other State election to be held
this year. The same cause will operate else
where with constantly increasing Influence,
for the tide runs out rapidly when once it has
fairly turned.-N. T. World.
Good out of Evil.
The election of n Democratic Governor in
New Hampshire may turn out 10 be one of the
most salutary events for the Republican party
which has happened in some years. 1t points
out the road on which we are travelling. II
may, in the first place. open the eyes OF quar-
relliDg Republicans to the mischief they are
really doing. In the next place, it may serve
10 warH Republicans everywhere that the
apathy into which they are now sinking has a
1 tendency to prove fatal to the principles for
J which they have been contending for so many
years. A reverse of this kind is wholesome
lesson, and if 1t arouses Republican leaders tc
the necessity of coming out and doing some
thing, instead of growing at each other from
their tents we may have cause to be thankful
hereafter that the tonic was administered in
time to do good.
! the success of their victory. While they are
screaming themselves hoarse, and procaimhg
the certain downfall of the Republicans in 1879
sober people will remember that contests IL
New Hampshire are always close except in
Presidential years, when from seven to nine
thousand majority may pretty confidently be
looked for.
Without entertaining needless alarm abou
Republican prospects, we may express the hope
that Republicans will now consider their posi-
ton in practical and business-llke manner
If they wish generally TO throw the coun
try into the hands of the Democrats, NJ
one questions their power to do it. We onl.
hope that they will take the trouble b
realize beforehand the results they vii
1 bring about. There is no obsch-ity upon thi
+ point in the minds Of the Democrats. The
I know very well that their restoration to powe
meana simnIv this-fiohtiug the war over aUaiu
Are Republicans prepared to undergo that trial
There certainly is no excuse for their being dc
ceiYed as TO the intentions of their opponents
NJ T. Tilnts.