Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-05-27

aiO 0cteohhy Go SS'0iO %" ~ Vh'"0
that a Republican could say, The
Tribune heads its article, ''The
Cloven foot in New Hampshire" and
say:
The Democrats of w,Hampshire
have again exemplifed that strange
perversity of disposition so often re-
marked in the history of the party, by
which great opportunities have been
frittered away and o permanent sue
cess wasted for some miserable adyan-
tage gainedb by low cunning and petty
trickery, With all their clamor for
purity and uprightness, and all their
vehement d~enunciatlons Of the cor
ruption of their opponents, they have
not the sincerity and manliness to act
fairly and justly when they have the
responsibility and the power. The
temptation to gain some small and
contemplate advantage by o~ver.reach>
ing and cheating, they have not the
strength or the courage to resist. The
Democratic Congressman from that
State, who left his back pay in the
Treasury during the canvass in which
his party was making all the capital it.
could by d~enouncing the Salary Grab
as an Administration measure, and
urging the people to rebuke such dis,
honesty by returning Democrats to
Congressional who Immediately after
the votes were counted sent on and
drew his share of the Grab-was o fair
illustration of the average regard for
honesty and decency Of the leaders of
the party in the State. Once or twice
these leaders have been trusted with
power because their opponents had
blundered SO badly. had been SO reck-
less and headstrong that the people
thought it time to make a change and
remind the party in power of the frail>
ty of its tenure. and the weight of its
responsibility. Each time these Dem.
~ocratic leaders mistook the occasion,
and drunk with temporary success went
off in a wild debauch over the spoils
of the camp. Il A.,
Last year they carried the State.
and true to their instincts sacrificed
everything in the future for the sake Of
present comfort and advantage. They
carried ~partisanship to the extreme
they made no pretense of anything
higher or more intelligent than a pur.
pose to make the most out of the pre-
sent opportunity. Naturally enough
they Disguised the people who had re
volted from the Republican party OF
account Of its intolerant p~artisanshiE
and its reckless management, and these
people quietly manifested their disap
probation last March BY voting for Re
publicans instead Of Democrats. Thu
; result was a Republican triumph, tina
, party having upon the returns a MAORI
ty in both branches of the Legislature
= And now comes an opportunity for TIN
J Democrats to indulge in petty trickery
and to undertake by o~verreaching ant
cheating-just the offenses which the!
have denounced their opponents fol
and on the stump and in their news
!. papers howled themselves red in tn
= face oyer--to defeat the plain and III
mistakable will of the people. lib
-Governor-Weston-and the council
four Democrats and one Republican
are the c~anvassers of the votes f
Senators. In order to give the Demt
!, Gratis a majority in the Senate, IL
), Governor and Council have deliberat,
ly thrown out ZOO votes cast f
- Matt Head' in the Second Distri'
r. upon the ground that the candidate
true name is Nathaniel IIead-and q
/. the votes cast for the Prohibition ca
:, didate in the Fourth District. upon Il
ground that he was ineligible, not ha
: ing resided in the State seven year
i. This gives the Democrats a majority
i. two in the Senate and the ~organizatic
Of the body.
This is the b~riefest statement Of &
i'll case. There are charges Of unfairne
be and double dealing against Governs
"a Weston, who, it is said, agreed to ha
Ire the matter referred TO the Suprer
d Court for decision, and did not full
"a his agreement. But there is enou.
les in this simple statement Of the fac
do to show the disposition by which the
,et leadingand representative men Of the
as party were animated. 1t ought to
plain enough, even to a purblind Nc