Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-09-05
The ssTidal Wave" Reaching
The People laundering for
Grant and Wilson.
Have YOU heard from Vermont :?

Have YOU heard from Vermont ?
Vermont has just given her voice for
Grant and Wilson, with laundering ma |
jority equal to the largest she ever gave
for the republican ticket. In the COM
mencement of the campaign the Greeley
papers and speakers claimed the State tor
Uncle Horace 1t was said that the soil
was favorable to the growth of Liberal
Republicanism. and nearly all the Green
Mountain State boys were infected with it.
A little later in the campaign the Greeley
ties began to acknowledge that the Grant
and Wilson ticket would have moderate
show of strength, but ZIP to the day Of
election they claimed large gains, and
laughed ut the idea of the Grant and Will
son men holding up to their majority of
1870, which was their last State election.
The republican majority of that year was
2l,909. What say the boys of the
Green Mountain State in their election of
Tuesday? THIRTY THOUSAND MA
JORITY!.! THE LARGEST REPUB-
LICAN MAJORITY EVER THROWN
IN THE STATE. Well done glorious
little State All honor to the true repub-
licans within your borders. They have
done their duty nobly.
! Three State elections have now been
held since the nominations for President
were made. OF these North Carolina was
the first. That State was carried by the
democrats in 1870. which was the latest test
of the strength Of the political parties, by
majority of 1895. Up to the day Of the
last election the lowest figure at which
the democrats placed their estimated ma
jority was 10000. while some estimates
were as high as 10000. So confident
were they OF victory that they fred guns
all over the country at the first reports,
which appeared to be favorable to the
democratic side Much to their chagrin.
however, they found they had hurned
their powder in vain and that the full re-
turns gave the State to the republicans by
some 1000 majority. This was the first
ripple of the great ''tidal wave the first
rumble of the earthquake" that is to be.
Here 1t was shown that the colored peo-
Pile stood firm for the republican party,
linking hands with the white Unionists
for freedom and justice as in the dark
days of the war, and that Greeley's repu-
ted and boosted strength in the South was
all fiction. Greeley stock was higher be-
fore that election than it ever will be again
Since that time 1t has tended steadily
downward. Brag and lying did not
stop but the betting men crawled into
their holes and took their money bags
with them.
The next election was in West Virginia.
There the democrats were in large ma
jority. In the State election, however,
they split and the regular democratic can
didate for Governor was defeated, while
an independent" candidate was elected,
he being supported by the republicans
and portion of the democrats. The reg
ular democrats appealed for support for
their candidate before election, on the
ground that the vote given for him would
represent the strength of Greeley and
Brown in the State, SO that the result was
clearly gain for Grant and Wilson and
a guarantee that the State will give them
its electoral vote in November.
! Thus in all the elections which have
been held since-the Presidential candidates
were placed in the field the republicans
have won splendid victories. Two Of the
States, North Carolina and West Virginia,
were democratic States according to their
latest elections before this year, but have
revolutionized and are now tor Grant and
Wilson. And in Vermont we have piled
up an overwhelming maiorlty-a rousing
one even for that State. So that instead
of loss we have gain. Instead of losing
republican States we have carried demo-
cratic strongholds. Instead of having
reduced majorities in States considered
sure we roll them mp higher and larger
than ever.
These elections are the answer OF the
people to the charges made against Presi-
dent Grant and his administration and the
conspiracy to undermine and overthrow
him. No administration was ever more
bitterly assailed, none was ever more tri-
umpantly vindicated than his will be.
Eighteen Investigations were set afoot in
Congress to ruin him, not one OF which
was able to find him guilty in any par
ticular, and though Sumner denounced
Greeley schemed and sore heads gen.
orally joined in the attempt to blacken his
character and destroy the confidence of
the people in President Grant, he stands
stronger before them as n Presidential
candidate than in 1868. The people know
that the country is prosperous, that its
finances are managed with economy and