New-York tribune., 1872-11-06
TIE IMMEDIATE RESULT

TIE IMMEDIATE RESULT.
Gen. Grant was yesterday reelected to tie
Presidency by the popular votes of every
Northern State, with those of South Carolina,
and possibly Of two or three, other States
below the line. We judge thas\ his strength
in the Electoral College WI, at the
very lowest, rise to go cut OF the
whole SGG There is scarcely "a paTallel
to the completeness of the rout and the triumph
Democrats have We'd with Liberal Republicans
in contributing to it, some Of thew by voting
directly for Grant electors; many more by
neglecting to vote at all. For the present the
Liberal movement seems crushed.
Let TO man accuse the able and shrewd,
politicians who, as the Republican NatiOnail
Committee, directed the canvass fer Gen
Grants reelection, with squandering the un-
precedented sums raised and disbursed by'
them in this cOntest-with having played a.
whole park of artillery to kill a fly. The,
Liberal movement was at one time formidable,
and had prospect Of success. Had not mil
lions been expended to arrest its progress
in the State elections of the last three
months, it might even have swept the Ooun-
try, though all the money raised in its behalf
would at best have been pence to balance
pounds. But q peril anticipated is often
peril averted. Thousands of the voters of
North Carolina, Vermont, and Maine were
convinced by money that they might
better vote the Administration than the Lib
eral ticket, and that, if they could not 80
vote, it was their interest to stay at home on
election day and not vote at all. Thus the
Liberal Republican strength in those States
was nearly neutralized by Democrats who
" wouldn't eat crow" when they could
get SIS to $40 each for not eating it. Thus
was secured to the Grant State ticket small
majority in North Carolina, and nearly the
Republican majorities Of 1868 in Vermont and
Maine and thus was encourage ment given to
the enormous outlay by which Pennsylvania
was made to roll up for Hartranft at least
treble her Republican majority. There was
nothing purchasable in the Keystone State
that was not bought, whether of voters,
electioneerers, or inspectors and canvassers;
and but one party had the where
withal to buy. The small yet ample
maiorities in Ohio and Nebraska, with the
balanced result in Indiana, assured all who
stood aloof watching the struggle as cool
spectators that Gen. Grants reelection was
highly probable; and at once stampede to
the winning side began which grew day by
day more formidable IL we, who were IN the
thick of the fight, could not see this, IL was
obvious to those who profted by it, and their
hopes were swiftly swelled into certainties.
Thousands who had been perspiring with zeal
for the Liberal cause silently dropped into the
swelling torrent. The gallant few who stood
ont might az well have tried to stem the tor
rent of Niagara.
4 - holi autn ~
| firmly /. That no President should be re-
| elected while welding the enormous patronage
| of our highest statiOn-holding that each should
be shielded from all temptations TO use those
powers for personal ends 2. That this country
was in great need of genuine Civil Service
Reform which should restore to her oftce-hOld-
ers that freedom to think. decide, and act on
political issues which is their birthright, but
which they cannot enjoy under the present
! system. and which should enable them to give
their days to the public duties for which
they are paid rather than to patrOlling anC
electionee1ing in the partisan interes
of their patron and chief. 8. That tb
| war-wasted tax-plundered, debt-covered, hal
bankrupt South should be cheered with
wel-grounded hope of honester rule ant
brighter DAYS, wherein the carpet -bagge
shall cease to plunder as the Ku-Klux Klal
have long since ceased to alarm and outrage.
1t did seem to us that the time had FULL
come for a National Reconciliation, whereby tn
deshnies of the South should be con6ded to tn
, better portion OF her people of both races, ant
the master spirits Of such travestie
: of Republican rule as South Carolin
4 and Arkansas be made TO quail unde
: the frown of Federal authority, an
t either reform their ways or relinquish thei
/, abused power. And it seemed to us that sue
j enormous defaleations as Paymaster Hodge
0 S474.0OO ought at least to be explained befor
}. power is returned to the handswhich wiclde
5 it while such great frauds went ON for year
Q undetected. But the people have decide
i otherwise, and we bow to their decision
/ The wealth Of the country, and especial