Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-04-11
THE CONNECTICUT ELECTION.
Another Endorsement OF the Ad-
milistration.

The Republican victory in New Hamp.
shire has been followed in quick succession
by another in Connecticut aSfull, substan.
tlal, brilliant and less expeeted. In po.
'~2litical matters, the Nutmeg State is pref.
ty evenly balanced, and the least disagec-
tion in one party turns the scale of sue
cess to the other. The Temperance men
we're a distinct organization with a Gubcr-
Material candidate in the field, and their
strength was mainly recruited from the
Republican ranks. AS a partial offset to
this element of danger, tho Labor Reform
ers gathered from both parties ran an in
dependent ticket. In this four-quartered
phase Of the canvass, a slight advantage
favored the Democracy.
It is to be noted that Nutmeg Democ-
Yacy has made wonderful strides in politi-
sal affairs in the last twelve months, IN
dergoing a radical transformation from
the rabid -slaveryism of the bred
Scott Constitution and Secession theory of
State sovereignty to an uni versal embrace
Of Republican policy as illustrated in the
three famous latter-day constitutional
amendments. The wide circle of its "new
departure" also, comprehends the pledge of
the national honor to pay the war debt.
The Democrats entered the contest with
the Brown platform of the Missouri Lib
eral Republicans, copied word for word,
whilst Jewell carried the same old banner
that doated in the splendor of final tri-
umph over the beaten warriors of Lee.
All parties recognized the fact that the
canvass rested upon a broad issue between
the National Administration and the n.y.
brid (un) Holy Alliance of Grants adver-
s%aries. AS in the New Hampshire cleo
ton, Greeley, the Stentor, Numbered the
slogan of the mongrel clans. and the State
was inundated with a food-tide of Schurz's
malignant diatribes- And Summers mas
terly logic and ponderous diction was not
not wanting to complete the marshalled
powers of the bouyant and sanguine opposi-
ton. The Republicans fully appreciated
the magnitude of the work before them
the INSCRIPTIONS craftiness and formula
bic resources of the enemy and the im>
portant bearing of the result upon Presi-
Dental movements. They laid down a
good platform and set up a good ticket.
With few words of one meaning they en-
dorsed the administration of President
Grant. and fortified the endorsement by
irrfragible proof of its brilliant and un-
broken successes in the steady reduction of
the public debt, "the faithful collection of
the revenue" tho enforcement of the laws,
the unearthing of rascality and the pm
ishment of scoundrelly jobbers and Off
cial thieves. The eloquent speakers and
the able journals that enforced these sus-
tanned facts made a 1cep impression upon
the discriminating minds of the honest
masses, and the glorious result reflects
the highest credit upon their intelligence
to discern and their fearless disposition to
hiSSbaiSO IL iJuuOtlOhS VI pdtllOIiC
duty.
New Hampshire and Connecticu ut have
done the fatal work for the Cincinnati
Convention. The malcontents and sore
heads will meet to wake the still-born
bantling of their paternity, and then
leave the Queen City. minus many a dol
lar needlessly spent, and in utter hope
l~essness of ever reaching the "WhIte
House,. The fascinating halo that has
surrounded this Missouri Liberal move
nent is fast dissolving into invisibility.
and many a we'll meaning Republican,
isveigled by its leaders, is being undo
'sivsd as to the sel6shnsss. treason and ma
of its projectors. The Cincinnati
is a farce, SO devoid of spirit
dash. enterprise and animation that it has
run its brief hour of novelty and
and the fact of its proposed
meeting is about dismissed from the pub
IN mind SOB