Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-20
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FIRST GUN OF THE CAMPAIGN
THE NEW RAMPsHIRE VICTORY.
THE GLORIOUS RESULT FULLY CON
FIRMED.
Three Cheers for the Granite statei

CoNcoRD, March 18.-l7i towns give Straw
323@9 and Weston 2o,s12 Temperance, 33s
Labor, So Legislature, 1G7 Republicans,
l07 Democrats Labor and Temperance, 2
LATER Returns from 1S3 towns give Straw
33,ss9; Weston, 31lS0; Blackman, 873
Cooper, 391. If the balance of the State, 80
towns should vote rs last year the result will
be as follows: Straw, 3S, 400 Weston, GG.2l5;
Blacl,man and Cooper 0s7, giving Straw ma
iority of ,2SS Tho first four council districts
have gone Republican, and tho fifth Demo-
cratic. Tho first second, third, fourth, frth
seventh ninth and tenth Senatorial Dis
tricts arc Republican The sixth eighth and
Twelfth are Democratic and the eleventh doubt
Iui. Rockingham, Cheshire Stafford. Hills
boro and Sullivan are Republican. Morimac,
Be1IkIn9P, Carroll and Coos are Democratic.
publican majority of at least 40
MANCHESTER, March l3-Straw's majority
is about 800. The Republicans held a iubf-
liant meeting.
New Hampshire Election In Washington.
Crounse, of the New York Times, tole-
graphs from Washington of the election
news as follows:
The effect of the New Hampshire cleo
tions here upon the Democrats has been
decidedly interesting, as well as very Gu
rious. You cannot find a Democrat who
ever expected, or even wanted, TO carry
New Hampshire. Such danger was TO
have been avoided at any cost success in
that State would have given their party an
overwhelming confidence that they would
have died from political apopleXy next
November; they would have had no in
! centive to work they would have waXed
fat and gross with the certain prospect of
the spoils and in state of supreme Dem
cratic over-confidence; the ReDublcans
would have stolen the victory out of their
grasp. But there is another phase of the
question: in the fact that some of the old
Democratic warehouses; hitherto silent, are
muttering curses this morning on the un-
holy alliance at Cincinnati. A prominent
Ohio Democratic member of Congress
contemplating with disgust the Labor Re
form vote in New Hampshire, denounced
with much fervor the idea of tying the
! great Democratic Party, with its millions
! of voters, upon the tail of party that, in
the entire poll of the State vote, could not
| get enough TO make respectable show of
licans, their feelings are re graveiy set forth
in this mornings Democratic organ, the
! Patriot, which, not meaning to be sarcas-
! tic, says: .
(" 1T must be confessed that the impress
sion produced by the speeches of Mr..
| Trumbnll, Mr.. Sumner and their associ-
| ates upon the New England community is
far less than their friends anticipated. This
may perhaps be attributed in part to the
course pursued by Senator Patterson and
his followers, who out-Heroded Herod in
their support of Grant after having con-
certed with the Liberals here in the origi.
nal opposition. That desertion will moi
profit Mr.. Patterson much, for he has long
since been registered for execution at the
first opportunity. Having sacrificed tho
respect of those whom he deserted, he viii
not even gain the reward which treachery
sought to acquire" ......
Opinions of the Press.
The decided victory of the .straight-ou
Republican ticket in New Hampshire 4
considered an important event in the po
litical world. We give below the opinion
Of the leading representative papers on th'
result.
The Cincinnati Commercial, anti-Gran
Republican, says:
The election in New Hampshire yester
day, restores the Republican supremacy il
that State. II does more 1t shows the te
nacity of the masses of men in adherence
|. to the old parties. Only n few hundred
citizens ventured outside the lines of the
regular political army. The New Hamp
shire Republican State Convention, thai
put in the field the tielletelected yesterday
was particular to endorse the candidacy o.
of Grant for reelection. The opponents
of Grant were confident until within {
fortnight Of the defeat of the Republican
ticket, andsmade their calculations upon
that event. 1t must be admitted, there
fore, that the triumph of the straight Re
publican ticket is under the circumstances
a success for Grant, and one that must in
crease the already formidable tendency u
override all opposition TO his nomination
by the Philadelphia Convention. F
From the Washington Patriot, dern.l
Although this election brings no disap
pointment, its instruction is not to be de
spised. To make the Presidential election
an assured success, all the elements of op
position must heartily combine upon I
candidate who, while representing th'
great principle of reform in its best an6
broadest sense, should be free from all of
fensive record, and be commended to pub
lie confidence and favor by the absence o
violent partisanship. The country cal
only be rescued from its present perils b,
the cordial cooperation OF all good men
, by concession, and by the compromise o
past differences. ttt
! The Washington Chronicle, inclined I
be Liberal Republican, says the victory /
D a significant one. 1t says:
That result, not TO go into all the detail
1 naturally suggested, can only tend TO tur
ther confuse the cOunsels of the nationa
Democracy, which are already " confusion
worse confounded,p y while il will surely in
crease the harmony and strength OF tn