The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-08-31
THE STATE ELECTIONS.

IHE STATE ELEC11ONS.
The n. Y. Times commences one of its
powerful editorials with the following
exhibit:
"After vexatious delay, due to the
scanty means of communication between
the different part of the State, we are able
this morning to present the official returns
of North Carolina election in complete
form, with the exception of three counties.
1t will be seen from our table, that in
total vote, of nearly 200, 900 votes, Gov.
Caldwell has a majority of ZOOS, and that
while the Republicans have gained 13. 796
on the vote of 1870. the Democrats have
gained only 6.12S. making the net Repub-
lican gain 1865
This is an indication of great Importance,
as showing the drift of public sentiment,
and that tide which the floating voters who
strive to be on the winning side, always
wait for before making their choice in the
pending contest.
This North Carolina result is not likely
to be overlooked or disregarded by that i'm
portant class of voters, whose weight and
influence is more dreaded at the polls by
politicians than any other class. 1t is
every day becoming more and more clear
that the deep, desperate game attempted
by the coalition of Greeley and his free
lances with the old Democratic party, for
purpose the most unholy that ever
"crowd'' got together for, will utterly
fail-that it amounts to a certain failure
already, and will grow every day more dis
astrous till the fifth of November dissipates
the humbug. We have designated this
gathering of Greeleyites, soreheads and
Democrats, "crowd 1T is not a party.
Political parties are founded on we'll de-
fined principles Of political economy; but
there is not single principle of this nature
held in common between the leading men,
bers of the Greeley and Brown crowd"
The old Democratic party in its weak
ness. as a national organization, having
become contemplate, certain ambitious
spirits who considered that they possessed
all the knowledge, and all the influence
which belonged to the Republican party,
concluded, that as they were not compe-
tent to control President Grant and direct
the Administration exactly as suited their
ideas or whims, and dictate all appoint
ments to office, they would secede and
re-organize the party with themselves at
the head of Reformed Republican party
The head and front of the reform consist
ed in the restless spirits being at the head
Of affairs. This movement not succeed
ing as we'll as the managers hoped, and
having gone too far for such proud spirits
to recede, they commenced bidding for
Democratic support. The leaders of this
old party of "treason" seeing no hope of
coffee and enrolment" by going on in
the old way, were too eager to join hands
with the handful of political soreheads
and trust to fortune for success, when they
would be sure to seize the lions share of
the spoils. This is an exceedingly simple
programme, but it is positively all Of the
"Republcan Reform" movement.
A storm of misrepresentation and abuse
of the Administration and General Grant
approached in the history of American
politics since 1910. By dint of falsehoods
and phariseeical assumptions of honesty,
and pompous, arrogant claims of superior
ability, craftsmanship, and all the other
virtues known to the political world, it was
thought by these clever politicians who
united round Horace Greeley, that the
country could be carried by storm, and
that their arrogant Boosting and audacious
assertions would be accepted by the people
without question. This game of brag has
utterly failed and the honest masses, both
of the Republican and Democratic parties
very soon began to inquire into the truth
of those astounding statements of the
Greeley and Brown crowd Inquiry
proved the greater part of them to be false,
of course, and the antecedents of their
over-vrtuous "Reformers we're hunted
up, which proved them to be a set of am
bilious disappointed Office hunters and pol
iticians. The stories they told and are
still telling. about Grants military despot
one are proven to be false as fast as exam
ined into, and the result is what might be
expected, that every day the Republican
cause with General Grant as its standard
bearer is growing stronger in the hearts of
honest people, who are determined to re-
huke this Outrageous attempt upon their
intelligence, by a set of ambitious politi-
clans, under the false livery of =" Reform
The floating vote which aims to be on the
winning side, have had their eyes opened
by the result in North Carolina, and will
have them opened still wider by Maine
in few days, when the stampede to Grant
will be SO irresistible that we fully expect
to see the Democrats kick Greeley ont of
their ranks as an arrant, humbug, and go
in a body to the Louisville nominees, pre-
ferring to be beat in quiet old-fashioned
way, then being made fools of and gain
nothing, by the man they all so despise.
1.-THE COMPLETE LETTER WRITER, OR
THE ROAD TO FORTUNE, "A short polit-
ical story for the times, will be found on