Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-22
New Hampshire Election.

The result Of the State election in New
Hampshire, on Tuesday of last week, is now
conceded to have been Republican defeat
For sixteen years, or ever since the Kansas
Nebraska revolution, the State has gone Re-
publican, sometimes by large, but oftener by
small maiorties. Gen. Grants majority in
1868 was about 1000 The vote the present
year is considerably larger than in 1870, the
vote for Pike, the Republican candidate for
Governor exceeding that for Stearns last year.
But this was owing, no doubt, TO the alb
sorption of the temperance vote, which gen
orally went for Pike, whilst on the other
hand there was a falling off of the Republican
vote proper, from various causes, among
which the Sumner removal and the Santo Do
mingo job are enumerated as the most prom
inent. The Concord Statesman, the leading
Republican paper of the State, the next day
after the election said
9 Had not Charles Sumner been forced
from his place e chairman of the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, the Repub-
lean vote Of yesterday would have been
larger had the SantO Domingo scheme been
left to the operation of natural causes, in
stead of pushed with unreasonable persistence,
and Congress succeeded in restoring our COM
MERGE to the extent and Importance it had
before the rebellion, it would have been
larger had some of the grant bills, however
wise and Just in themselves, been discreetly
deferred until the public understanding had
grown up to them, it would have been larger :;
and, had all these causes of embarrassment
been Withheld, we might have carried the
State by nearly the usual majority"
The Concord Monitor, another leading and
able Republican paper, said
- All in all, and all round, it is a pretty
sweeping defeat, for which neither the vic
tors nor the vanquished were prepared. OF
the cause of this disaster we shall take Occa-
zion to speak hereafter, and we shall speak
plainly. Meanwhile, we commend care
ful study Of the returns to President Grant
and his Senatorial headsmen, who so recent
~ assumed the role Of executioners towards
whoever dared have and express opinion
not in unison with the views and wishes of the
present federal administration.
fhc Concord Patriot, the democratic organ
of New Hampshire, admits that but for the
attempt of the administration TO force the
Stnto Domingo policy upon the country and
the removal of Mr.. Sumner the Republicans
would have carried the State.
The Washington Chronicle, which has
i"'s"iuiiJ 0"PPoA'Sd C'cIy P"''J III OaSui0J
says:
. The defeat is unquestionably to be traced
to the recent events in the Senate. Many
Republicans were panied and disheartened by
the sharp debate and the apparent division in
the party, and refused to vote"
We might add columns of similar COM
ments from Republican papers.
As the returns now stand, there is no cleo
tIon Of Governor by the people, but with a
Senate with one and perhaps two Democrat
ic majority, and a House from five to ten
Democratic majority, his election by the
legislature is rendered certain. Two Repub-
lican and two Democratic Councillors are
elected, and in one district there is no choice
The three Democratic candidates for Congress
were elected, and before this are in Wash.
ington. They are as follows
District No. l-Ellery a. Hubbard, Of
Laconia.
District No. samuel N. Belle, of Man.
chester.
District No. 3-Hosea W. Parker, o.
Claremont-
LArEsT.-The Monitor gives the return.
for Representatives from. all towns in the
State, and Classics them Republicans, l64
Democrats and Labor Reformers, I66.
The Patriot says the House will stand los
Democrats and l62 Republicans, the Labor
Relormers being chased as Democrats.
The Statesman adheres to its statement /:
I66 Republicans and 164 Democrats
Probably nothing more definite will be ar.