Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-11-08
AFTER THE ELECTION.

sufficient intelligence to make certain that
Grant and Wilson were elected by an
overwhelming majority. The estimates
then in their favor have been increased
since rather than decreased. --.--.
The feeling Of the Greeleyites Under
such q result is not supposed to be very
bnoyant. They are not boiling over win
fight and brag as they were about the time
they wasted their powder over the Norm
Carolina victory, but submit with lamb
like resignation. The Tribune says
There is scarcely parallel to the rout
land triumph" The defeat of course it
places at the door of its own friends.
Democrats" it says. shave We'd with lib
.eral republicans in contributing to it,
some of them by voting directly for
Grant electors; many by neglecting to
vote at ALL" 1t charges the Grant men
with using vast sums Of money to corrupt
voters, but, on the whole, never did the
Tribune accept the result OF an election SO
mildly, with less cutlery about fraud and
corruption in the opposite party than it
receives this. 1t makes no display of bel
ligerency, avows no want of faith in the
republic, but declares it will not be an Or
gan any longer and is going to devote it.
self to science. philosophy and oeet rails
ing. with Mr.. Greeley in the editorial
chair. Ii is quite evident there will not
be any rebellion this time by the opposi-
ton. The thunderbolt that struck them
down on Tuesday admits oil no senseless
talk of that kind. They might as well
war with Jove as undertake to be other
wise than submissive. The Tribune even
promises to support Grant in any reform
he may accomplish. This is kind but
empty. What the Tribune desired was
not reform but change; its platform was
anything to beat Grant, Reform was
but catchword; the real motive was to
secure the Presidency, to turn Grant ont
and put Greeley in. That lost it may turn
to science. beet raising. or anything it
pleases. If it must play the reformer, let
ii begin by reforming its own manage
ment. which for lying and SANDER has a
reputation that smells to heaven.
Next to the meekness with which the van
pushed meet their fate, is noticeable the
fatality which has attended the liberal re-
publican candidates everywhere. With the
sharpest observation we have been able
li-onxara1 ho
election of one of that species to Congress
from any district in the United States.
While very many democrats who have
consorted with the republicans in opposi-
ton to Greeley have been elected to places
of honor and responsibility, of which the
election of Dix as Governor of New York
is an example. there is not a spared mon
ument among the liberals; all have been
buried beneath the Grant and Wilson ava
lanche. Pike ard Lang of Maine, the
sweet pets of Mr.. Greeley, died early
Blair of Michigan and Farnsworth of Hi
nois had their hopes blasted in the nomin
ating conventions. Banks is beaten to
death in his district, and Massachusetts
stands with seventy thousand republican
majority against the unholy coalition in
which Sumner is found. New York de-
clares against Fenton, while Trumbull is
condemned in Illinois, and will never sit in
the Senate of the United States as her rep
resentative after the close of his present
term. Not one of the cabal is spared. If
the Tribune can find parallel to this NOR
tality among liberal republican leaders it
would oblige the public and relieve its
friends by mentioningit
One Of the important events in the
election is the choice of Mayor and City
Government in New York in harmony
with those who desire to save the city
from the grasp of dishonest rings and the
corruption that has reigned there. The
election Of Havemeyer means honest ~.
tempts at reform. lie was the Grant and
Wilson candidate, pledged to reform. and
supported by the reform elements. BY
the returns we Judge the city election was
fairly conducted for once, and that the
new government will have tho moral sup
port OF all honest people of all parties.
1t is an event to rejoice over, even in ma
tional election, that New York is redeemed
from the hands that have robbed her treas
ury, soiled her good name, outraged the
public sense of decency and justice, and
has secureda government of responsibility
and strength 1t should not be forgotten
that the Grant and Wilson party of the
city and State were the support of this re-
form ticket, casting their lot with the cause
OF Right whatever the consequence might
he to them.
AD VENTURES or 4 PORTLAND /
SURGEON.