Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-20
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION.

A leading st. Johnsbury republican, an
active politician but an honest man, is re-
ported to have said last week, Z" hope the
democrats will win in New Hampshire"
They did, and the reason for il was ne doubt
the same as that which gave origin to that
singular wish. 1t is not that the people have
any more confidence in the old democratic
organization, but they are willing to let it
win, as testimony Of their disgust at the
corruption that has become so manifest in
the republican leaders.
The fact is, the people are tired of both
the old political organizations and are only
watching for the first signs of capitalization
about new political center. There never
was such thing as the reform of party
after the politicians had once got control Of
it. The democratic politicians sealed the
doom of their party by selling out to the
slave aristocracy of the South, and the re-
publican politicians have sealed the doom of
their party by selling out to the bank, rail.
road and Spectator aristocracy of the North.
The people are not going to submit to he
ruled long by any aristocracy. This is
democratic country, in which by the organic
law of the nation and of every state the peo-
Pile alone have the right to govern. The
people will not surrender their birthright to
an aristocracy of combined capitalists, any
more willingly than they laid it down at the
behest Of the slave-drivers.
In New Hampshire the republican leaders
tried to save themselves from impending fate
by seizing hold Of the Farmers Movement
almost as soon as it was born in that state
But that did them no good. 1t only arrest
ed the Movement, and no oranges have been
organized since the day it become apparent
that the republican politicians had captured
them. The farmers must start again, on an
independent basis, and maintain it, as we
have done in Vermont, free from all compli-
cation with party politics. Then it will
spread through the state like wild.6re, for
the farmers of New Hampshire are as thor.
oughly disguised with the present state of
the public affairs as those of any part of the
country.
So far as we know, Mr.. McCutchins, the
republican candidate, is just such man as
the farmers would have liked to vote for as
an independent candidate but the demo-
cratic farmers would not support him as the
representative Of the policy Ct their oppo-
nents; and even the republican farmers
showed no enthusiasm for him The result
is that the democrats hold the state, but on
" as temporary occupants, while things are
working round A new party, representing
the demands of the people for reform, re-
trenchment, and a return to the principles Of
free democracy, democracy Of Wash
ington and Jefferson,-is the necessity o. the
times 1t is already formed in the hearts OF
the people. 1t will soon find the means Of
organization. 1t will not, in our opinion,
be at once victorious, for the money power is
well entrenched, and it will die hard. But
in the end the right will win. We did not
destroy the save-power, to turn round and
surrender ourselves to arstocracy in any
other form. The people must rule,-or, as
the immortal Lincoln has phrased it for all
time,-we must have a government OF
the people, FOR the people, BY the peo.
ple,' in place of what we now have-a gov
eminent of the politicians, by the politicians,
for the monopolists.