Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-11-11
amOille NeWSdealer
cHAs. c. MORSE Editor.
Eyte Park, t5t, nor. II, 1874.
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Deeu sayluS tOiu you 50, hncW IL HOuit
be so. We are not of such. We mus
confess that We were surprised. AuC
when il was current that old Massachu
sets, the cradle of Republicanism, haC
elected a demo cratic governor, we doubted
believing it a cauard. Our incredibly
was strengthened by the accompanying in
tcIligencc that tho irrepreSsbible Butler
was also defeated. We did not think thi,
possible. We had suppose by his manner
of addressing his consist ency that he
owned his district, carried it in his pocket
to use common parlance. But the CON-
fort of doubling was not long enjoyed
Our whole line had been broken. There
was defeat every whore. This is the way
we have to put it to be true to the facts
Governors lost. Senators prospec'ively,
representatives swallowed. The House
which at last session of Congress had a
Republican ma crity ofover one hundred
will at its noxt scssinn have Democratic
majority of nearly it not quite, seventy.
What is the moral ? Well, we are not tax.
ing this defeat TO heart in cur cooler, SO.
berer, moments. as we anticipated We
are not quite sure. after all, that our par
ty did not need a cathartc. and q pretty
vigorous dose. Had not the whole body,
10 some sense, become sick, and did
it not need cleansing and purifying? Aud
while We say this, We do not think it fol-
lows by any means that the Republican
party has permanently lost its hold upon
the people or that it is to go out Of pow
err. We think if it will heed this les
son, as it ought, that it can regain the
confidence of the people. The Republi-
can party came into power gIorionsly; ii
planted itself upon great moral issues. 1t
called to u noble struggle much of the
best brain and heart Of the country But
II late years its management has been
passing out Of the hands, Of the faithful
honest men who made it, into the control
of political manipnla'ors and trlckstcrs
whose absorbing purpose has been.t to no d
these official positions and enrich their
rockets. Now eliminate these useless, par
asitical elen'ents, and good deal of this
must come as the result of the late cleo
tions, and you take the letters, the clog s
off from the Republican party. Again :
we said that the carly efforts of The party
were glorious; so they were. But has
there not been to- much of dspo sltiou
lately to rest upon laurels already won ?
Has not the party been living full too
much on its past record, and giving to little
heed to the present wants and exige nces
of the country We think 1t has. The
questions since the war, which have call
cd for serious attention from the dominant
party, has been the restoration Of the
South, the finances. and industries Of the
country. We think these have not had
that dispass,onate, sober, earnest thought
tho h1n1s Of our legislators. that their
prceminent importance demands. There is
another thing which has operated disas-
'rously against US in the late elections,
and that is the uneasiness, which the poo.
pie have felt concerning President Grants
future purposes. The people remember
gratefully hsi noble, distinguished servi.
ces during the war; they desire to honor
him, and have as no other man was ever
honored in this country; but they want
and will have no Caesars. In our opinion,
if there be any man to whom the late
elections should be voiced with distinct
certain utterance, that man is President
Grant.
In fine, but this follows as the result
Of former suggestions, there must he less
of arrogance, less of the application OIL
the LASH on the part Of those who seek
to control. The ballot is the lnestimabe
right Of the American Citizen it is cul
defense of all that we hold sa .red and dear
it shonld De the untrammelel expression
Of our best thought and purpose.