The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-17

The State election which is to take place
April two weeks from next Monday ex-
cites more interest than it could have done II
the democrats had not met an unexpected
check in New Hampshire. Had the New
Hampshire democrats made gains, or even
held their own, the republicans would already
have been as good as defeated in Connecticut,
because in this State Governor lngersoll had
a plurality of 6, 1872 over Harrison, his repub-
lican competitor, last year, and in the pre-
ceding year the democratic plurality was
5,0S6; whereas in New Hampshire the demo-
Gratis barely carried the State last year, the
election Of Governor being thrown into the
Legislature, where the democrats had small
majority on joint ballot. The democratic
party has been considerably smaller in New
Hampshire for the last year or two than it
has in Connecticut, and the republicans will
have to make much larger gains than they did
in New Hampshire to carry the State
But their unexpected success in New Hamp-
shire will stimulate them to herculean efforts.
1t is of incalculable Importance to both po-
litical parties with reference to the August,
September, October and November elections,
that the two opening elections of the year
should furnish grounds of hope The result
of the New Hampshire election encourages the
republicans; for, although it came SO near
being drawn battle, the substantial fruits Of
victory belong to the republicans. Last year,
like this year. there was no choice by the
people, and the election of Governor devolved
on the Legislature. But last year the demo-
cratic candidate had plurality of 1,465 and
this year the republican candidate has
plurality of 100. Neither last year nor this
year was there an election of Governor by the
people; but last year tho Legislature was
controlled by the democrats, and this year
it is controlled by the republicans The
practical consequence is that when the
New Hampshire Legislature meets in June it
will elect a republican Governor instead Of a
democratic Governor, reversing the result Of
last June. The election this year is q repub-
lcan victory more against odds, but GER
tainly victory, since that party is in posses
sion of the field.
Such result, slender as the advantage is,
infuses hope and courage into the republicans
and emboidens them to make strenuous eff
forts to wrest the State government of Con-
necticut out of democratic hands. Should
their hopes be realized their success will have
an immense effect on the August and Septem-
Der elections. They will accordingly do their
very utmost in Connecticut. victory in
April, following the New Hampshire victory
in March, would be interpreted by the repub-
lcan press of the country as proof that the
tidal wave" 1--WE owe an apology for using
such tumid slang) of last year had been ar
rested and turned back, and that the strong
feeling Of dissatisfaction with the Grant ad-
ministration had expended and exhausted its
force. The democrats are as sensible as the
republicans Of the moral effect of a repubI-
can victory in Connecticut on subsequent
elections, and there will be concentration Of
forces on both sides to carry the State.
Judging from present Appearances the re-
publican party cannot succeed in Connecti-
cut. So slight reaction as took place in
New Hampshire would still leave them in q
minority. They lack the advantages of the
New Hampshire republicans who, in their
explicitly separated the policy OF the repub-
lican party from the personal fortunes Of
President Grant The Connecticut platform
| warmly indorses the President Every man
on the republican State ticket and the repub-
lican Congressional tickets is an out-and-out
Grant man, with the single exception of Gen
eral Hawley, who is candidate for re-
election to Congress from the Hartford dis
trict. We have no doubt that General
Hawley will be reelected. He voted against
/ the Force BILL which was pet measure of
| the President; he voted in favor of Mr.
Polands Arkansas resolution, which was a
pointed condemnation of General Grant s
wish to GUST Governor Garland and install
Brooks; and he will probably maintain
himself in his district by his opposi-
ton to the policy of the President
on these important questions. But with the
exception of General Hawley every prominent
\ republican candidate in Connecticut is a sup
porter Of Grant Mr.. Greene, their candidate
| for Governor, is so ardent q Grant man that
as Mayor of Norwich he ordered one hundred
guns to be fired in honor of Grants Louisiana
message The presiding officer of the Repub-
lican State Convention pronounced fulsome
eulogy on Grant on taking his seat. In their
platform the Connecticut republicans declared
their "undiminished confidence in the integ.
rity and patriotism of President Grant"
With Grant PLATFORM an enthusiastic Grant
candidate for Governor, and three OF the tour
candidates for Congress- ardent Grant men
General Hawley being the one e1ception),
the Connecticut republicans go into the coz
test on very different footing from their
brethren in New Hampshire. 1t makes great
difference whether republicans indorse or
repudiate Grantism. In New Hampshire they
repudiated it and barely won victory in