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

The feeling which has produced this re-
suit is not confined to New Hampshire. Il
permeates the whole body polite. The peo-
pie demand reform, and reform they will
have IT not through the republican party,
then from some other source. We do not
believe there is any hope that the present
democratic party, which has been demoral.
IEei Tor years, will do the work which needs
TO be done and If the other political organi.
zation is also found incompetent, the only
hope is IN new movement, resulting in u
genuine reform party Boston Globe
The republican organ at Concord tells the
truth When it says only want of confidence
IN the democratic party prevented an over.
whelming republican defeat. yesterday The
democratic corpse in the road Is the greatest
obstruction to the funeral procession Of the
republican party.-Boston Herald.
The moment any party identifies itself
with its othce-holders and not with the great
political inspirations which gave it birth, it
has reached its climax, and its hours are
numbered. The democratic party went to
the dogs because Of that error, and the re-
publican party is in rapid pursuit Of its fate.
-Nev York Evening Post.
New Hampshire marks the inevitable ten.
dency Of our politics,--the waning power of
once popular leaders, the uuwillingness of
large classes Of intelligent voters to own ale-
glance to party which fails to keep its
promises, the settled and increasing dissatis.
faction Of the country with the admins ira
ton as 1t manifests itselfin its appointments
and IN its treatment Of the great questions
Of the hour.-BostOn Advertiser.
The people no sooner call the democrats
to power than they wish they badn I done
il and they no sooner recall the republicans
to power than they wish the same thing. Ii
is like the settlers direction to the traveller
1t don't make any difference which road
you take, stranger-you'll wish you had tn.
ken the other. ''-S. Louis Republican.
This year will, quite likely, settle the
question whether the republican party is tC
purge and live cleanly or go to tho grave.
yard Worcester Spy.
The democratic party-what there il left
OF its run by men over City years of age
some Of them relics Of the old locofoco era
some of them Webster wings who have hard
y yet got over their surprise at finding
themselves democrats, some of them repeat
ant know-nothings The republican party
is run by men who stumped for Fremont in
30, and by men of equal age who have seen
their interests ia rafting over from the demo.
crazy. The party managers have recruited
their ranks literally from without, and have
made many valuable acquisitions ; for ill.,
stance, Ulysses S. Grant and Benjamin f
Butler. They have not recruited from with
in. They have preferred the old, corrupt
blood Of democracy to the new, healthy
blood Of republicanism. The result is
what we see. The parties lie at anchor
lazily rotting, crusted with barnacles, eater
through and through by worms, emit ing
smell that-to put the fact mildly-is no
agreeable. They do not accomplish any
thing they are past accomplishing an ything
They simply rot, and rot. 1t is time there
was an end OF this. 1t IN time the old hulk.
were relieved Of their sound timbers-ii
they have any-and then broken up 1t is
time the musty issues of a by.gone er;
we're consigned to the museum of poi'ica
antiquities. New times. new issues, new
men. Let the dead bury their dead -
Springfield Republican.
| De Tocqueville is not read now, nor J eff
ersOn nor anything but the money column
but surely the money column. and the stock
returns, and the state Of the banks, nigh
afford thinking men an evidence that we can
not 60 on stealing our own property in thi,
way. making pandemouium OF states South
aud robbing ~ with jimmy the safes o
commerce at the North, while our lands ar
passing into the possession of few rail
read companies, who aro .dy control the dis
tribution of our products and the rates o
our fuel.-BrOOkiyn Eagle.
The coming party has not yet come. Their
are voices crying in the wilderness, more o
less articulately. There are hands at wor
preparing the way-some consciously, NOR,
unconsciously But the party has not ye
come. Those who say " Lo here, " are to-
last.-BoStoH Journal.