Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-11-07

from the people at tIls. po Is.
[From the New York Tribune
The verdict OF the country
against Grantisrn is delivered
There were only two great ques-
tions before the people at this cleo
ton. One was whether the Adj
miDistration deserves The public
confidence, and the other wsether
1t ought 10 be perpetuated. They
have both been answered so loud
ly in the negative that even the
President must hear the verdict.
II Is not anywhere "A mere
DemOcr itic victory. 1t is the pro-
test Of all classes Ut cisiZens against
an Administration which sup
pOr ed Jayne, which enriched San:
born, which lobbied the salary
bill through Congress, which es-
tablished its KelIoggs In the South
by perjured Judges and misused
bayonets, and tried to sustain them
by slandering an injured people,
and which had just put itself for
ward with he insolent claim for a
perpetuation of power This is the
end of Grantism. II is not the re-
vival Of the rebellion, nor the def
initive rehabilitation of the Demo-
cratic party. 1t simply eliminates
Grantiom from poli,ics.as an i'm
pertinent factor, and lea"es the
two parties confronted-so evenly
matched that both must hereafter
he careful to make no mistakes.
The future belongs to thu one who
shall earn it.
From the n. Y. Herald.
General Grant, who led the Re
publican party into power two
years ago with the largest major
ity, perhaps, ever given to a Pres
ident, may feel this morning AS he
reads he returns of The November
election, that he has been like the
Prodigal Son, and has squandered
a precious political inheritance
Whatever the causes, the result is
decisive. New York, wn.ch has
been anchored so firmly to the re-
publican party, now swings out in
pronounced and irretrievable re-
volt Even the splendid popular
ity of General Dix could not save
the Administration.
n The third term is
buried forever. General Grant has
two years before him in which to
retrieve many of the plumbers
which have brought discontinue
upon his administration ana defeat
upon his party. Let him take this
lesson in its highest sense, and re-
member what he owes to his great
name, his fame, and the place he
would hold in history. His career
as a political leader is closed, but
tire remains to him personal ca
reer, which he can vindicate and
confirm by two years of good gov
ernment, reform and deuotion to
the highest and truest principles
of administration.
The World says it is as much a
victory for patriotic masses of the
Republican party as for Demo
Gratis, and they may be thankful
that the mad rioting of their lead
ers in insolence of office has been
rebuked and arrested. il is vie
tory for free trade hand money and
home rule
The Washington Republican, tn c
administration organ, says:
However the November cleo.
tons may have gone, however
they may have effected the next
Congress, it is not denied by any
one that the Republican party has
still the majority of the coun-
try, and that if it shall be led as il
ought to be led, its victories in the
future will surpass anything that
it has won in the past. In the de
feats which we fear we have met,
we see the omen of future victory.
The republican party is still the
party of the country,a and it cannot
be defeated, and the Republic
lives"
The Baltimore SIN says
While the result of Tuesdays
elections has confirmed the worst
forebodings of the most Respondent
republicans, and more than realized
the anticipations of the most SAN
guine democrats, it is somethin
considerably more than the
triumph of one political party or
the defeat ofanother. 1t is much
less of political victory than a
popular revolution.
The Baltimore Gazette under the
heading of "Some Words Of Coun
SELL" comments as follows
In discussing the consequences
of the marvellous series of victories
on Tuesday last, we should make a
great mistake five gave the whole
credit of them to the Democracy