The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-12
THE GRANITE STATE.
republican Losses in the Principal Towns
Straw and Weston Very Close on
the Gubernatorial Vote.

CONCORD, N H.. March II, 1873.
"i'o ~ zen O'CLOCK, when returns Of to-day's
election are but partially in So far 1t appears that
Tue tnree democratic Congressman have been
e'eo'eo' anu 'ne PROBABILITY is that Weston, demo-
GRAFT Is chosen Governor but 1t ia possible that tina
eiectlon OF Governor may go to the Legislature.
Large democratic gains have been made in Man.
chester and Nashua, almost enough to overcome
the republican majority OF 1872 In the smaller
towns there have been proportiOnate gains on the
Governor vote In very many instances, 80 that the
general aspect OF the results is as above stated.
There are no returns yet in to indicate how the
Senatorial vote has gone. but it Is believed that
the democrats will have at least seven out of the
twelve and some claim nine. Nothing has been
dennitely heard from the Councillors districts but
1t Is thought that the Governors vote indicates
their security to the democrats OF at least three
out OF the five Representatives. The republicans
VIII have majority, but much smaller one than
last year.
The weather to-day was exceedingly stormy. and
the vote was small accordingly, especially in the
northern and eastern section OF the State
There Is good deal OF excitement in this city to-
night, and dispatches from Manchester and
Nashua speak Of considerable there Also The repub-
licans are rather low spirited over the prospects,
but in fact their hopes have not been at all high
during the campaign. The democrats have been very
umph is heard. The Credit Mebilier and the Con
gressiOnal Salary bill have done the work for the
democrats. The people could not stand such i'm
positions on their sufierance, and hundreds Of re-
publicans either declined to vote or gave their
votes to the e,a democrats len Gratis ~ rhe republican
selves, for they have kept harping away
these tender subjects for weeks, believing that
they were making capital thereby, whereas they
only contributed to keep up an irritated state OF
democratic papers to do would not have met the
eyes OF 1.-THE OF their party in the State The
thing was done by concert, but the music
was the most inharmOnious they could
make. The democratic and liberal presses
contented themselves meanwhile by urging
rebuking Congressional dishonesty and extrava-
gance, and allowed the republican papers to do up
the condemnation thereof The bad logic and
worse arguments they used hurt their cause ex-
men Of their party. Now. In the face OF the re-
suits Of this days election there Is not
so much 10y over the defeat Of the repub-
licans as there Is over the example
the event will show to other States and the moral
condemnation it fixed on recent transactions OF
Congress. There is a truly patriotic feeling preva-
lent and not one on which selfish considerations
have all the sway. New Hampshire democrats
think they have done n0bly to-day, and many re-
publicans think SO with them.
of the liberal republicans and prohibitory liquor
law men respectively for Governor. The present
Congressional delegation. Messrs Hubbard, Bell
and Parker, are democrats and candidates for re-
election. The republican candidates are W. b.
Small, A. F. Pike and 8. G. Griffin.
THE FIRST RETURNS RECEIVED
show that eighty-one towns give Straw (repl,
1856; Weston (dem.), IL, 1852; Blackmer (temp).
40l; Mason Qib.), 267.
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