Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-15
WHAT THEY THINK OF IT.

The feelings of sanguine Democrat,
whose ewes have beamed with satisfaction
over apparent dissensions in the Republi-
can party, through which they expected
share of the loaves and fishes, are better
imagined than described, upon receiving
the news of their crushing defeat IN New
Hampshire. The papers generally, so far
as we have received them, have little to
say about it. The Banner and Memphis
papers are silent as death the morn
ing following the election, their emotions
being too deep for utterance. The Demo-
cratic organ of our own city has not been
able vet to give an opinion Of the result,
The Union and american is holder IN
avowing what it regards as the lesson of
the hour. It heads its dispatches convey
ing the news with the inquiry, "Where
are the Reunion Reformer5 ?n 1t, no
doubt had in its mind, "echO answers,
where ," 1t says editorially:
The result of the New Hampshire election, as
indicated by our kilograms this morning, does
not augur favOrably for Liberal Republican or
Labor Reform strength in New England. 1t
shows that Federal patronage is still power IN
the lana. w e 10 not iilSlSIi uOW0VeFi IHdG tHe
Liberal Republicans or the Labor RefOrmers
should be dismayed or discouraged by these re-
turns. They have had no organization in New
England, and therefore, have not expected 10
make much impression on the Radical ranks IN
that sterile region. The Democrats could not,
of course expect such combination of circum-
stances again this year as gave them the nom
inal victory at the last election.
OF course not. Our philosophic friend
of the Greeneville Sentinel accounts for
the result in the following plain matter-of-
fact style:
The Election in New Hampshire on the 18th
inst, for Governor and other State officers, has
resulted favorable to the Republicans by a
majority of perhaps a thousand. Last year,
from local causes, the Democrats carried the
State by six hundred. Extraordinary efforts by
the Republicans, speaking and by the free use
Ofmoney has carried the State for the admins
tration.
The Republican press speaks of the re-
suit in different strain. 1t is great vic
tory, and they have cause to rejoice at it
The Washington Republican speaks of it
as follows:
The real value of yesterdays result in New
Hampshire is its admonition to the politicians
1t is useful alike to the Democracy, who expect
to get enough Republican fools to help them to
defeat Grant, and to dissatisfied Republicans
who are fools enough to believe that any man
elected against Grant will be true to the Repub-
lican platform and pledges. We have little
hope that the first class will be affected by the
Republican victory in New Hampshire, save
that they may now believe that their only hope
of defeating grant is to get some sound Republi-
can TO run against him. Had New Hampshire
gone Democratic these would have demanded
Democratic candidate for President against
Grant. The mere statement Of this fact ought to
be enough to show Republicans where their du-
ty lies. They must see that State which has
nearly always been the index State has clearly
anticipated public sentiment by declaring in
favor of President Grants reelection; and in
reading the future, they will not be ready to
Why should Republicans become the catpaws
of the old rebel monkeys? That is the honest
question, now more than ever demanding an
honest answer. The grand New Hampshire
election is the plain, Old-faShioned, historical
warning-the finger point that points to the No
vember stopping place.