Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-11-04
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say, for newspaper comments on the elections.
The kilograms elsewhere give ssme signs of
what may be expected in this way. Our city
papers have something to say this morning.
The Chronicle is not effusive, but thinks the
kilograms "justify the conclusion that the House
of Representatives OF the 44th Congress will be
democratic. Probably a majority of the states
will be represented by democratic delegations
in that body, rendering 1t necessary for the
republicans to elect the next President by
the popular vote, or permit the national
government to go into the hands Of the
democracy after the 4th of March, 1871,
The Republican deals with the matter double
leadedly and also in single leads, and comes to
the conclusion that, "however the NJ
vember elections may have gone, however
they may have affected the next Congress, it is
not denied by any one that the republican
party has still the majority of the country, and
that If 1t shall be led as 1t ought to be led its
victories in the future will surpass any that il
has won in the past. In the defeats which we
fear we have met, we see the omen OF
future victory. The republican party is stiu
the party of the country, and it cannot be ds-
feated, and the Republic lives"
The Baltimore american takes the occasion 70
get even with ex- Postmaster General Creswell,
and says:
cal parties in this country a case gilmore unmis-
taxable and persistent suicide than that which
was consummated yesterday. For two years the
whole power OF the administration has been er-
erted to wrest from the hands of the republican
party their state organizations, and to pack
conventions and make nominations at the
bidding OF the ofhce-hOlding cliques who were
given control of the several states Here in
Maryland two years ago there was an enthu-
siastic and growing republican party, with
every prospect before Ii of carrying a majority
lPpislaturn. q dyfc af aah-
lngton overturned the whole party organization,
and drove out of its communion the great ma
yority or the men or influence and Character
in the state. The republican party was killed
TO enable Postmaster General Creswell to build
upon its ruins a "Creswell party" which WAS
to make no nominations without his consent
aud approval; 10 adopt resolutions of confidence
IN him at all their primary meetings and con-
Ventions, and bespatter with praise the great
author OF their existence. The control aud
management and direction OF everything per-
tanning TO political affairs were given to the
exclusive charge Of officehOlders, SO far as
Baltimore was concerned, and those from the
their local organizations. There was to be a
Grant party, but no republican party, and
hence the present deplorable condition of affairs
IN this state. There is reason to belle that the
same feeling has been organized in other states
Almost everywhere, even in Massachusetts,.
party management has become the mere dictlm
Oh oneeholders, who follow instructions from
Washington, and thousands OF the best and most
active and influential men have stood off in dis
gust, and thought it best to allow the harvest of
oad management to be fully reaped before the
approach of another Presidential election.
The result in Maryland seems to be that Mr.
Creswell, having accomplished all this disorgan-
lzatton, has quietly dropped out of the Cabinet
and lefthis oficehOlders In confusion and dis
may, apparently taking no further interest in
their fortunes and misfortuDes. All we can saw
is that at is not our funeral"
The Baltimore Sun notes ga general current
OF sentiment exhibited against the dominant
power" and says:
"Eyen the negroes of the South appsar to
have begun to realize that they are entitled in
tact to their political freedom as well as their
mere personal liberty; that both are accom-
them as any white man may, and vote for whom
they please. Large numbers of colored men in
Louisiana, Alabama and elsewhere YESTERDAY
voted the conservative ticket openly. Marshal
Packard gave anticipation of defeat in Ieuisi-
ana when he sent dispatches to Washington
rom New Orleans complaining that ''intimi-
dalon" had heavily reduced the republican
vote, in the very face OF the fact that he has
had the army and navy at his back for more
than month past to prevent just such a re-
sult-to use HeBl, on the contrary, To intimidata
the conservatives. When political parties in
the South are divided without reference to color
there will be some hope for refor N and for the
ence TO the general good"
The New York Herald, ''stilI harping on my
daughter" )" says:
"The third term is buried forever. General
Grant has two years before him in which to re-
uieve many OF the mistakes which have brought
discontinue upon his adm inistration and defeat
upon his party. Let him take this lesson in its
highest sense, and remember what he owes to
nls great name, his fame, and the place he would
hold IN history. His career Is political leader
Is closed, but there remains to him a personal
career which he can vindicste and confirm by
two years of good government, reform and de-
votion to the highest and truest principles OF
administration"
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