Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-04-10
election To-Day.

To be sure. TOUR hOhiON
ara 70 he elected, but as no great ques-
,,or. If national policy now divide or
.oitota the people, there is nothing in
,fIo ovcept party names, to attract or
reneI voters, aside from their personal
references for particular candidates.
The delegation, in the last House of
representatives, was politically divided
-, there being three republicans and one
Ior,ocrat. If we remember correctly,
auof the present delegation are candi-
5otos for reelection. The only particu-
i,r Question that could be made against
oDr Of them, apart from politics, would
No in reference to their votes and action
m the salary question. They all voted
,oainst the increase. They have neither
of them received the increased salary to
which they are entitled under the bill,
,,,hicb il now law. Whether there is
any particular virtue in this remains to
~. seen. Indeed, it is a question of I
,,sta in any event. Three democratic I
ConCressmcn from New Hampshire
went before their constituents, month
ooo. claiming reelection at their hands.
They based their pretensions and claims
an the fact that they had voted against
what they and their supporters were
plaasrd 10 term. 1.-The salary steal or /
,..alary grab." Their scruples were so
GREAT that they would not draw the adj /
Iidoral compensation. Their hands or
with. This show of virtue did not adj
vantagcth them much, however. 1t |
seems in the light Of future events, that
II ought not to have been of any partic-
Mar benefit. The election over, they
made haste to grab and "steal, and
p9Iutc their hands and pockets with the
additional filthy lucre. We do not say
# wa. grab or ''steal.' 1t is not
necessary that we should express an
opinion thereon. They and their politi-
cal supporters, did express such opin-
ions. When it could do them no good,
politically, by further attracting votes,
tlrypockcted their opinions, consciences
and that which they called grab
and "steal' They were entitled to it,
under the law, and, in so far as that
cave the right, they had a right to take
H. They had no moral right, however,
TO rcnounce it,, call it grab and
"stcal. and when such actions and dec
E,,e I,ar adv flalo
take their share thereof, as a right. We
sneak of this i'm reference TO the Con
necticut election, to show how really
little il has to do with the election. The
contest as to members of Congress, as
we'll as to State officers and members
of the legislature, has been conducted
quietly, and the probabilities are that
the. delegation will remain politically
unchanged in the next Congress. In
reference to the Governor and state otti-
GERS. 1t is impossible 10 tell how far the
local quarrel between Hartford and New
Haven may affect the result. There was
difficulty, in both parties, growing out
of this rivalry. which, at one time, was
quite bitter, but it is said the differences
are healed and both parties are now
more or less harmonious. The detec-
tions, if any, will he about the same and
offset each other There is a third ticket
"A temperance ticket'-in the field,
and the number of votes 1t receives Will
determine the result before the people.
We think, from a comparison of demo-
cratic and republican reports, that the
republican state ticket, headed by MIR.
Haven, will be elected by the people.
IF not. It seems to be generally conceded.
that the legislature will be republican,
and, If so, will elect the republican Gov
prnor aud other State officers. Like Yer
mont. it requires In Connecticut a ma
tority of all the votes for candidate to
effect an election by the people. As we
have said before, there Is no political
significance or consequence to this cleo
ton. There is no national issue which
it can, by its result, approve or con-
denim. There is no State election to fol-
low. on which the ''moral effect, about
which,we have heard so much, Is to be
felt Connecticut has been for years
what we call ''close" State, except in
presidential elections. In 1867 1868 and
1870. the democrats elected their Gov
prnor. while the republicans carried the
State in 1866, 1869, 1871 and 1879, the
last time by only twenty-five majority.
70 illustrate her uncertainty English,
democrat, was elected Governor in
April, 1868, by 1895 majority, and in
November of the same year General
Grant received three thousand and forty
five majority. A year ago Governor
Jewell, republican, was elected by, as
we have stated, twenty-five majority,
while General Grants majority in No
yember was over four thousand. The
old campaign song told us that ''doubt-
full things were mighty u1pSarttf,' and
Connecticut elections have provedit true
We trust-we believe-there is no I'M
certainty about General Hawley's re-
election, in the first district, to Congress.
He has served only a term of three
months, and during that time has proved
himself one whose services the country
could lily afford to spare. 1t is useless,
however, to speculate. We think the
result will be as we have forecasted.
But after the experience of the Rhode
Island election, when the Governor was
elected by majority of thousands, and
the Lieutenant-G Governor, on the same
ticket, failed of an election, it is idle to
Judge of the effect of local causes.
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