The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-17
NOTES ON THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELEC-
TION

The Boston Globe rep on the day be-
fore the New Hampshire election, urged
Republicans to 60 to the polls and save
the State to their party" and to hope that
much is still possible for reforml within
the ranks of the Republican party" The
Republicans being beaten, in an increased
aggregate vote, the Globe says:
1t comes not from mere listlessness re-
garding public affairs; but it comes from
widespread discomfort and Dissatisfaction
'oiM the present condition Of things
There is loss Of faith, not in the prin-
ciples of the party, but in many of the men
Of the party who assume to be its leaders
This dissatisfaction is widespread,
but New Hampshire, as the first State to
engage in the customary political canvass
Of the year, is the first to exhibit its prac-
teal effects, 1t permeates the
whole body polite. The people demand
reform, and reform they will have if not
through the Republican party, then from
some other source.
The Boston Post Dem does not call
the Republican defeat in New Hampshire
a Democratic victory, but rather "TEe
GbplC ANSDuhS II
The rebuke is emphatic and unequivocal,
and in its effect will be found the settle
ment OF the grayest issues ever presented
to the nation. The rapid, vigorous march
OF corruption, the lengthening Federal
grasp, the dangerous formation of rings,
the unparalleled assaults upon commerce,
and The contempt for the interest of labor
ious industry, all have combined to arouse
NeW Hampshire rom the lethdray of par
tizdaShip, and caused her voters to demand
q change which shall become universal and
permanent Out of the slough of Butler
ism or Grantism, for they are one and the
same thing, will thus emerge State after
State, redeemed, independent, and reliev
ed,
The Boston Advertiser Rep. remarking
upon the result of the New Hampshire
election, says:
After making all allowances for the spe-
cial and local disturbances which prevail
to some extent in all elections. the salient
fact remains that the Republican majority,
averaging nearly 1900 in the last ten
years, has been wiped out, and that, too,
in favor of q party which could present no
claim to public confidence except as afford
ing way of escape for Republicans who
feel that in their own party their conf
dence has been sadly betrayed. New
Hampshire marks the inevitable tendency
of our politics, the waning power of once
popular leaders, the unwilingness of large
classes of intelligent voters to own ale
glance to a party which fails to keep its
promises, the settled and increasing dissat-
isfaction of the country with the Admins
tration rs it manifests itself in its appoint
ments and in its treatment Of the great
questions Of the hour.
The Concord NH Monitor, the recog-
nized Republican organ in the State, says
We have not the space, nor, indeed, the
inclination, to enter fully into considera.
ton OF the causes which have brought
about the present state of affairs. We be-
lieye, however, that they have their origin
in Washington. With full appreciation
Of -what we are about to say, HAVING
weighed our words well, we charge the re
pulse we have suffered to the SHORTCOMINGS
unavoidable in part there is no doubt, O
the National Government. We were too
heavily handicapped with Sanborn cou
tracts, Jayne and Bingham blackmaiings
imitation schemes, the moiety system, ant
the failure OF Congress to meet the want
OF the masses by legislation demanded b
the hard times. Nor is it exaggeration +
state that the Simmons fight lost us
thousand votes. Only the belle
well grounded-that the Democratic
party offered no relief for this state of af
fairs has saved us from an over,ohelnainl
defeat. This is the truth and no goo'
purpose can be subsetved in concealing it
1t IS especially desirable that it should b
understood at Washington.
The New York EDesiag post, (Rep.) sc
Tiously remarks that the result will be n