The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-03
Tue Party Press ON the Results Of d,
COnnecticue Electlou.


Connecticus Electios.
The comments Of our city contemporaries
OF the party press on the results OF the Con-
nec'icut election are certainly very amusing.
heretofore republican victory like this
would have been hailed by Mr.. Greeley some
what In this enthusiastic fashion .-s1,lorious
Ola Connecticut-The Republicans Sweep the
State-A Waterloo Defeat to the Sham De-
mocracy, and so oo; but now, was there ever
such collapses All the glory, all the fire,
all the republican enthusiasm Of our venerable
philosopher on the virtues of sub-soiling. all
the trumpeting spirit Of this old campaigner Ia
gone His review of this Connecticut cleo.
ton reads as if appropriated from some Nova
Scotia newspaper, or, like the adaptation OF
an extract from some ancient political gazet-
teer. It has something of the look Of re-
publican congratulation bat 1t has q melan-
choly sound In the reading and is dismally
neutral. We doubt not that Mr.. Greeley, with
his weather eye upon Cincinnati, would have
been happier, as republican on the bali
SHE'LL with democratic victory in Connecti-
cut. Among the wisest sayings Of "Honest
Old Abe" is the saying charged to his account,
that "when man gets the buzzing bee of the
Presidency In his ear no can hear nothing,
see nothing and think of nothing but the
White House and how he is to get there.
The facetious logician of our democratic
contemporary, the World, of course expected
nothing but republican success in Conneoti-
cut; but his apology for the non-appearance
of the anti-Grant republicans for Hubbard in
this fight is very droll. If they had gone over
to Hubbard they would have been counted as
democrats, don't you see? whereas they
intend to 60 to Cincinnati and act there as
republicans. They are shedder crabs, their
old shell is broken, but they still wear it. At
Cincinnati they will cast it of, and then you
will see the soft shell crab in all his loneliness,
ready for the frying pan Of the democratic
party. The Times administration devotes
its brief review of Connecticut mainly to the
scoring Of Mr.. Greeley, which is very con.
tracted view of the subject. The results in
Connecticut would, doubtless, have been the
same had any one or oil of these New York
party journals collapsed with the collapse Of
the Tammany Ring. The Standard and the
Commercial administration hit the nail on
the head in pronouncing the result In Con-
necticut another popular endorsement Of Gen.
eral Grant.
The poets of the Post leaning on FREQ trade
towards Cincinnati, say that General Grant was
not in the fight, and that the result simply
means that Connecticut once more rejects
the democratic organization and bids 1t go
Into its grave" This brings up again tho
perplexng conundrum, Why should the great
democratic party be merged in the Jack-O'-
lantern adventure of the Cincinnati Conven-
tion7 There is month yet for the discussion
of this question among our democratic contem-
poraries, and by the end Of the month 1t is
probable that Cincinnati and the passive policy
will be dropped by the party, and that Mcssrs-
Chase, Davis, Trumbull, Logan, Brown, Gree
ley, Mcclure, Upton and all the other aspirants
for the Cincinnati joint stock nomination will
in May find themselves the victims Of mise
rable delusion. Connecticut establishes the
fact that the lines of the republican party
remain unbroken around the administration,
and that the boilers will be as powerless
against the re- election Of Grant In 1872 as
were the boilers of 1882 against Jackson, or
as were the malcontents of 1864 against the
reelection of Lincoln. Your disappointed
politician Is an old customer, and the Amer
lean people have learned his tricks and know
how to deal with him, whatever the fancy cos
tune in which he may appear.
--
President Theirs 10 tho French LegisIa.