Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-07-08
A Failure and an Opportunity.

The Democrats of New. Hampshire an
h Connect icut do not seem to understan
that they are the subjects of an exper
a ment by the people; that they are onl
: temporarily intrustcd with power with
, view Of discovering whether, after all
b they are wise enough to exccptits respon
sibilities and discharge its duties. 1t i
an experiment that has been tried on
small scale repeatedly during the pas
fifteen years, but always with unsatisfac
tory results. The Republican psty hal
several times been reminded Of its re,
sponsibility to the people and recalled tc
a sense of duty and obligations by ten.
poary reverses; and as many times the
experiment of trusting the opposing party
with just a little taste of power has been
ventured on. The result has been %invari.
ably the same. Temporary reverses have
sobcred the party of the Administration.
and taught its leaders to correct their err
rors. 1t can said of it, indeed, that no
party in the history of the country was
ever SO sensitive to public opinion, none
ever SO readily obeyed the helm of popu-
lar sentiment, as did the Republican par.
ty for the first twelve years of its exis.
tence. Whether that record can be con.
tinued is an open question. On the
other baud, the effect of the most trifinp
upon the Democratic party, in.
stead of steadying them with the sense of
responsibility, has been rather to set them
with the desire for spoils and iutox-
cate them with plumber. There has been
exception to this rule. The unprediu.
Iced observer of our politics cannot help
'emarking that in the sense of being dis.
rect, prudent, clear-headed, the present
dominant party has Invariably shown it
elf superior to its opponent.
The Democratic successes in New
hampshire and Connecticut were not due
0 any revival of confidence in the Demo
ratio party, or to any change III the po-
cal sentiments of the people of those |
tates. The most ardent Democrat will I
arSly undertake to make any such claim. {
he causes of the political overturn in |
lose two States were SO plain that the n
of wayfarirg men could make no Ii
Estate in reading them. The blunaering
and increasing dishonesty of the Il
epublicau party lerders in Congress II
d for the party what no sagacity or a
rategy on the part gifts opponents could N
feet, and it was through no strength or I
sdom of their own, but by the weak IN
IS and folly Of the Administration, that ia
ere is no issue upon which they as a W
rty have taken the popular side, and Y
opponents the unpopular side, and Oh
has been no change in public senti. it
mt upon old questions that should re. ar
rse the position Of parties. The fact of ne
%ascendence is simply a vote fu
lack of confidence in the Administration. ca
it'll this state Of facts SO patent as to IS
Ike mistaking them almost impossible,
is a curious study to observe how the
'ty newly arrived at power carries it. AZ
1t has been trusted so many times
ore, and been made dizzy and drunken Ce
h it, that one would suppose the les. les
might BY this time have been learned
be lesson Of s:cadiness and nerve. Has the
pal
n New Hampshire these gentlemen are so,
wing their appreciation Of the trust re-
in them by the people by engaging h.,
wild and drunken scramble for place
plumber. AS if the object of politi.
was political plumber, and the r.,
effect of elections to turn one set Of
out of office and give another set
+ places and salaries, these people Fh
, devoted themselves 10 upsetting ev. "e''
hing and everybody in the State, aud ~
ding among themselves the official wv
der. And these poor, hungry wretches q
end to believe that the party they per'
aud lead has come fully into the unu
10 confidence, and hat the people was
On this horrid debauch will not viii
It from such a spectacle, but will be sum
y to open the whole country to it. They R
nothing from experience. On a DRY
scale, so far as they had the power, mon
did the same thing 10 that State in Clar
, when q coalition Of Democrats and unar
r Reformers was able to work its DR..
q limited degree. The taste of mem
r they then obtained intoxicated them. the s
heir selfish and scnseless attempts to
the Offices disguised the people, and pbra
the State back to their shrewder and endi
sensible opponents the following The
This year they are again drunk in sn
power and repeating their OLD ex- that
,. In Connecticut it has been pretty
the M Last year the Demo- I'll
g oP' Tylel