Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-11-14
TILE ELECTIONS.
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and begs TO inquire how his estimate looks |
in the light Of tho facls.-N. y. World.
If we may judge from the parallels Of
history for the past twelve years, the re-
publican party will be wiser in adversely
than ii was merry in sunshine, and the
democrats will be carried away by their
success to the commission OF such iudiscre-
tons and folles rs will disgust the people
with them. and make their career short
onc.---New York Tribune
We have never doubted that majority
Of the people of this country arc Democrats
in principle, nor that, after the dead issues
of the war arc fairly buried, the govern
mont will he the greater portion of the time
in Democratic hands, as ii was during the
sixty years of this country before the war.
In those sixty years the Democratic party
carried twelve Presidential elections, and
its opponents only three. There will he
similar proportion during the next sixty
years, II it shall be the fortune of the par
" To have leaders rs wise and sagacious, as
those who guided its policy during the first
half of the present certury.-N Y. World.
We do not consider il clear that any Thing
that has happened IL not cxplainablo by
the general locScncss and torpor of the "off
year," but if it be truo that thousands of
Republicans have stayed at home in a doz-
en- States, through DISCUS ut at so much of
the Credit Mubiier and salary grab as lies
at the Republican door-we believe the
Republican party is intelligent and te9cha-
be enough TO learn the lesson, and TO gain
purity and strength for the future from its
local and temporary rcverses. The elect
OF these on our opponents will tend TO en-
sure the nomin alton Of Thurman for Pres
dcnt in 1876, on straight Democratic tick
ct BUriiH1tOH Free Press.
The pruning knife must he unspariugly
used If the life ofthe tree is TO be saved. The
disease has eaten deep, and ii will be use
less to endeavor TO prop up the dccaying
branches II rcpublicanism is to continue
to exist ii must be by returning TO the earn
ostnesS and honesty by which 1t was dis
tinguished in its earliest days, by scourg-
ing the thieves and charlatans out of the
temple. Otherwise ii will pass away as
other corrupt organizations have passed
away, and its leaders will discover when 1t
is too late the full significance of the lin
difference" OF the people in the late cleo
| tom .--Netr York Herald.
Our democratic friends are rejoicing. 1t
is rather pleasant TO see them once more
ENJOYING an occasion of mutual congratu-
lation.. They have few enough of them at
| the best, and we DO not feel like detrac,ng
y
| properly take in contemplating the result.
! But still. none of us can help looking for
ward We fear ii is is unreasonable and
unnei2hborly, but the truth must be spok-
e.. You may carry the State in an "oft
| year. but when ii comes 10 The real tug OF
war, we shall win. Your successes come
| when successes are not worth a great deal.
| Your "tidal wave appears when there is
| nothing of very much value TO be washed
/ on your heapof muck. When the real tri-
hall st1
| We shall elect the governor in 1874, and the
President in 1876 albany Ereoing Jonrnd'.
/ And now what Of the future? The re-
| publican party is warned. Its repi esenta-
| tves in Congress and in the State Le2isla-
| tire are warned. They must serve the peo-
! pie faithfully rs a condition Of republican
| success in the future. They must repel
corruption and eni"ice integrity. They
| must crush ont the Ubiquitous lobby ele-
mont. They must give expression to the
| popular conscience. In other words they
! must do right or suffer the penalty of
! wrong doing But doing right, boldly
meeting The demands of the time and the
emergencies Of the crisis by acts Of true
statesmanship instead of policies of petty
! tinkerin9 or disrcputphle jobbing, the re-
publican party will be all the more strength
! cned for future achievements by the lesson
! Of the present dcIeu.-Troy Times
There can be 10 doubt that the lesson of
| Tuesday must disabuse the minds of the
people of some of the theories many of
hem seem TO have entertained, that, the
hoary old democracy was dead, and that no
damage could arise from its corpse until
the power of political resurrection should
have collected its scattered members, and
brought forth rom new birth, regener-
ated and purified organization, upon whose
garments there should not be a smell of
| the old order Of things. The fact is the old
| party has considerable vitality LETT, and
! they do not propose to allow an election,
even though it be of little importance, To so
| by default. On Tuesday the Republicans
stayed away from the polls by the thous-
anus in every Stale, while the opposition
marched out and voted with all the precis-
| ion and party drill of twenty years ago.
| ecugnize the existence of the Demo-
| cratic party, as an organized body, as
| an established fact. The old standard is
| raised. and this temporary success in Ohio,
New York, Virginia and other places, Is
| sufficient TO hold il together until the next
Presidential canvass. This is what it means
and We believe is about all that can be
claimed for it.-RuIdnd Herald.
In the first place, this quasi-revolu;ion in
|
turn of the democracy to power in the
country. OF the party as national party
there is as profound a distrust as last year.
It's victories have been only local ones, and
| in every case the reasons that have permit
ted their triumph have been a combination
of dissalisiactions touching not only vital
questions of principle, but incidental iea-
| lures of administration. Credit MOblier,
| back-pay, the intCrmeddling of national
officials in local politics, all were intuen-
tlal to n degree, but they would not have
| brought about the results we have witness
ed if the democratic party had stood sing
| " and alone for its national ideas. But in
| lmo>t every state where great gains were
made by our opponents, they had taken
advantage of local discomfort concerning
| ma tiers that are hardly political at all. In
this state it was the prohibitory legislation;
in Wisconsin the grangers' movement. For
the Democratic party, AS party, the peo-
pie care nothing. y Again, the
results do indicate that there Is widespread
dissatisfaction, and it becomes those in an =
thority to eradicate the causes of it. 1t
will not do TO wait for the dissolution of
the democratic party. The people will
have lutte confidence in the sincerity Of a
virtue assumed only 10 escape destruction.
The republican party must reform upon
conviction of duty. But the time when it
can do this is departing. The people are
impatient. Already they hold their allie
giance as a light obligation, something that
it is fair to sport with. Their faith in it is
relaxing, and is reaching out towards other
support. The rotten wood of democracy
is only serviceahle for partial dependence.
TO change the figure, the people play the
coquette with the democratic party not be-
cause they love it, but because they would
have the republican party consider them
with more earnest desire to merit favor.
boston Aduertiser.