The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-11-08
THE PRESS ON THE ELECTION
New York Tribune fGreeley). November J
wealth the Winner.

Committee, directed the canvass LOT ueneTai
Grants reelection, with squandering the I'M
precedcnted sums raised and disbursed ny
them in this contest-with having played a
whole park of artillery to kill fly. ihe
Liberal movement was at one time formula
bic. and had prospect of success. HAD not
millions been expended to arrest its progress
in the State elections of the last three months
It might even have swept the country, though
all the money raised in its behalf would OF
best have been pence to balance pound'.
But peril anticipated is often peril avert
ed. Thousands of the voters of North caro-,
lima, Vermont, and Maine we're convinced
10y money that they might better yote Inc
Administration than the Liberal ticket, anu
that. if they could not so vote, 1t was the',
interest to stay at home on electloh-aay anu
not vote at ALL Thus the Liberal hepupil-
can strength in those States was nearly heu-
tralzcd by Democrats who "Wouldn,t eat
crow" when they could get So to so each
for not eating it. Thus was secured 10
the Grant State ticket small majority
in North Carolina, and nearly the Repnb.
Iican maiorities Of 1868 in Vermont ana
Maine and thus was encouragement given
to the enormous outlay by which Pennsyl-
vania was made to roll up for lartran1t nj
least treble her Republican majority. There
was nothing purchaslble in the Keystone
State that was not bought, whether OF voters,
elecionecrers, or inspectors and canvassers
and bnt one party had the whcrewltha' TO
buy. The small yet ample maloritles III
Ohio and Nebraska, with the balanced result
in Indiana. assured all who stood alooi
watching the struggle as cool spectators that
General Grants reelection was highly proba-
IN
side began which grew day by day more
formidable.
General Grant has new four-ycars' lease
of power, with Congress OF which TWO,
thirds to threc-fourths of either House will
support him zealously. He has every facility
for elTectng the reforms he is said to mcdl-
tate, especially that of the civil service, while
the abolition Of the much-abuscd Thanking
privilege is so sqlnrcly promised That its sue
cess would seem to be assured. For what
ever reform he may give us he shall have
from the Tribune cordial recognition ana
rrajsc: where he falls short, he shall have,
in the future as in the past, frank and fear
less criticism. And while there are danger
Gus tendencies developed by this canvass,
which foreshadow government by the rich
and able few. substituting and controlling
such portion aS they may require oil the K
nornnt. ncnniIess, venal many, let lis never
despair Of the American Republic!
New York World nyemocratc), November O.
Democratic Desperation.
The cause of this deplorable discontinue
lies much further back than the nomination OF
Mr.. Greeley. 1t was doubtless mistake. even
under fine circumstances which existed last
Nav and June, to take up Mr.. Greeley; but
The real source Of weakness was in the cir
rumstanccs themselves which rendered such
nomination possible. "Thc cause of the
cause is the cause of the thing caused" II
The Democratic party had not been reduced
TO fccln. bordering on despair by pre-
vious untoward events, it would not have
tolerated for an instant Il candidate whose
whole mast history represented everything
which was hostile to Democratic ideas OF the
philosophy, functions, and limitations OF
government. The true explanation OF this
defeat is not TO be found in the nomination
of Mr.. Greeley. but in that previous letting
down Of party hope and spirit which recon-
ciIed our National Convention to al act oi
sheer desperation.
The World thinks the Democrats might
have elected Free-Trader.
New York Times uicpublicanl, November o.
what the Country has Escaped.
The Greclcvites have made an appeal to
the nation, have greatly disturbed the bust
ness of the country for matiy months, are
responsible for much confusion and uproar.
and now will lie expected to allow the bust
ness of the country to 80 on in peace. They
sprung plot upon the country, solely for
the purpose of rcviving secession passions in
the South, of restoring to power reckless
party and of gratifying the personal amhi-
ton of an elderly gentleman spoiled by his
popularitv as journalist. GreelcyiSm was
understood ut the South to mean nothing more
nor less than secession. Had Greeley been
elected we should inevitably have had out
breaks all over the South, and Greeley himself
would have been powcrless to restrain
them. We have escaped this peril, and
now the country ought not to be thrown
into further agitation by the bitterness and
disappointment Of diSgraccful faction.
The people want peace. The contest has
been prolonged, and every issue that the
GreeleytcS could raise has been fairly, fully,
and patiently heard and tried. Their argtl-
ments, their tricks, and their pretences, have
all had good chance. Judgment has gone
against them, and now 1t is their duty to re.
frain from striving to unsettle private and
public business, and to acquicscc in the de.
cision of the vast majority OF the people.
New York Herald (Grant), November 81
The People Satisfied with Grant.
The Administration party presented in
their case for General Grant his practical re-
forms and rctrenchmcntS; his payment OF
| hundreds Of millions OF the public debt, with
| reductions amounting TO hundreds of mil
| lions Of our national taXatiOns; his foreign
| policy of peace and arbitration bis humane
| Indian policy; his concilatory treatment of
| the southern cX.rcbel whites while executing
the kukluX laws of Congress for the protec-
| ton of the southern blacks; and, above all,
| the safety under Grant of our established
| financial SyStem-bonds, banks, currency,
and all the stupendous business affairs
of the country depending upon this
financial system; and, on the other
| hand, the dangers of financial con-
yulsion and collapse that would follow the
election of Greeley, with a party at his back
intent upon various Quixotic financial expo
riments, including the immediate resumption
of specie payments at all hazards. This case
for the Administration was too strong for the
cloudy and unsubstantial case of the opposi-
ton. The American people have according
ly decreed in favor of the safety of their gene
raj interests under the existing Administra.
ton, and against the doubts and dangers in.
yolved in the indefinite and uncertain designs
and tendencies of an opposing coalition,
charged with no higher bond of union III
| their late canvass than the spoisman's shib-
bolcth of Anything to beat Grant,"
baltimore Sun independently, November il
The Effect Of the Triumph.
What is to he the effect upon existing party
organizations Of the new triumph Of the Re.
publican party remains to be seen. It has
often happened, however. In the history Of
| narties that such an absolute lease OF power