The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-11


Important Presidential Movements De-
pending Upon 1t.
The annual State election of New Hamp-
shire for Governor and Legislature, which
comes off tomorrow, whatever may be the
general result will have an extraordinary
effect in giving definite shape and direction
to the Presidential movements Of the demo-
cratic party. As between the republicans and
the democrats the State is closely divided
and the result is doubtful. Since 1868, how
ever, the temperance men and the labor re-
formers, each as an independent political
party, have been gradually gaining the bal
ance Of power. Last year, with the additional
drawback upon the republicans of the st.
Domingo quarrel between Senator Sumner and
General Grant, these outside parties made
diversion which gave the State to the demo-
Gratis, including three of its four members OF
Congress, and under the same conditions we
might now confidently predict the same re-
suits. But the conditions affecting the several
parties in this election are 80 changed that
while the republicans appear confident the
democrats seem dubious of the issue.
The republicans are fighting this prelmi-
nary Presidential skirmish under the broad
ensign of General Grant The st. Domingo
trouble is out of the way; but, while Summers
hostility to Grant has not abated on this ques-
ton, he has been joined by four or five other
republican Senators and by half dozen re-
publican journals for new departure upon
new Presidential candidate. How far this
nominal coalition may be able to cripple the
New Hampshire republicans in this contest is
the important question to the party to be set
tied in this election. No serious dIsa6ections
are reported in the party rank or file. Indeed,
il is said that the anti Grant speeches of Sum-
ner, Trumbull and Schurz circulated as demo-
cratic campaign documents, have operated
rather to arouse and unite than to discourage
and divide the republicans. On the other
hand, shorn of the sinews Of war supplied by
Tammany heretofore, the democrats in this
contest are fighting an unequal battle, for in
stump speakers and general activity the re-
publicans have been far ahead.
We are informed, too, that the leading demo-
Gratis of this city in favor of a Presidential
fusion with all the anti Grant elements of the
country and the sinking Of the democratic
party In the movement, desire, not the success,
but the defeat, Of the party in New Hampshire.
And wherefore? Because, disguised with the
foolish rebel and coppsrhead rejoicings, in
Guiding the Growing of jeff Davis over their
Bull Run New Hampshire victory of last March,
it is feared that another such victory would re-
produce the same follies and blunders. In
other words, as to certain leading
democrats of this city, believing that
their party, still borne down by the issues of
the rebellion, is not strong enough to defeat
General Grant in the coming Presidential
election, but believing that he may be defeated
by the sinking of the issues of the war with
the democratic party in liberal republican
organization, they hold the opinion that a
democratic defeat in New Hampshire is wanted
to secure this new departure. Holding this
opinion, these men hold that the success of
the republicans in New Hampshire is desirable
in view of fusion Of all the opposition ele-
ments with the anti-Grant republicans in the
Presidential contest and upon some such anti
Grant ticket as Judge Davis and Mcclure or
Trumbull and Greeley. But the New Hamp-
shire democrats are fighting for the control of
the State and its spoils and plumber, and
having had q taste of their local loaves and
fishes they care nothing for these outside party
considerations. They will do their best to
hold the StNe Ths general political tide
meantime seems to be setting against them, as
the returns of our own late local elections will
serve to show.
From the returns of the latest of these local
elections before us we find that the republi-
cans have astonished themselves by their sue
cesses in Binghamton, Rochester, Elmira, Au-
burn, Cohoes, Poughkeepsie, Utica and other
places in different parts of the State. Here
aud there we have little democratic success,
but the general run of these elections indi-
Gates lively cohesion of the republicans, and
that while they are waxing more lively and
stronger the democrats are getting weaker
and more apathetic as the passive democracy.
The scattering local elections in Maine, ILL
nois and other States indicate the same gene
raj pressure from the reviving tide of public
opinion in favor of the man of 1868 as the
man for 1872. But the most remarkable fact
disclosed in these elections is the manifest
weakness Of the anti-Grant republicans as
disturbing element. Half dozen soured and
disa6ected republican boilers and intriguers
in the national Senate have for months past
been sapping and mining and collecting ammu-
milton for the purpose Of blowing up the
administration. And what with their broad
sides Of shot and shell on civil service reform,
the one term principle, Custom House abuses
and the sales Of secondhand muskets to specu-
lators, who found market for their wares in
France. and what with the co-onara fion Of Tho