Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-05-28
From the New York Tribune, May 20.
The Cloyen Foot in New-Hampshire.

From the New York Tribune. May %.
The Cloven Foot in New-Hampshire.
The Democrats of New-Hampshire
have again exemplifed that strange per-
versity of disposition so often remarked
in the history of the party, by which
great opportunities have been trittered
away and a permanent success wasted
for miserable temporary advantage gain
ed by low cunning and petty trickery.
With all their clamor for purity and
uprightness, and all vehement denuncia-
tions of the corruption oftheir opponents,
they have not the sincerity and manli
ness to act fairly and justly when they
have the responsibility and the power.
The temptation to gain some small and
contemplate advantage by over-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
denouncing the Salary Grab as an AID
minstration measure, and urging the
people to rebuke such dishonesty by re-
turning Democrats to Congress, and who
| Immediately after the votes were counted
sent on and drew his share of the Grab,
was fair illustration of the average re-
gard for honesty and decency of the lead
ers of the party in the State. Once or
twice these leaders have been trusted
with power because their opponents had
Numbered so badly, had been so reckless
and headstrong that the people thought
it time to make change and remind
the party in power Of the frailty of its
tenure and the weight of its responsible
ty. Each time these Democratic leaders
mistook the occasion, and drunk with
temporary success went off in a wild de
bauch over the spoils Of the camp.
Last year they carried the State, and
true to their instincts sacrificed every
thing 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
i, intelligent than purpose to make the
most out of the present opportunity.
Naturally enough they disguised the
people who had revolted from the Re
publican party on account Of its intoler-
ant partisanship and its reckless man
agement, and these people quietly man.
!, Tested their disapprobation last March
by voting for Republicans instead of
Democrats. The result was Repub-
lican triumph, that party having upon
the returns a majority in both branches
of the Legislature. And now comes an
opportunity for the Democrats to in
dulge in petty trickery, and to under
took by overreaching and cheating,
Just the offenses which they have de.
nounced their opponents for, and on the
stump and in their newspapers howled
themselves red in the face over, to defeat
theplain and unmistakable will of the peo-
pie. The Governor-We and the
Council, four Democrats and one Repub-
lican, are the canvassers of the votes for
Senators. In order to give the Demo
Gratis majority in the Senate, the Gov
ernor and Council have deliberately
: thrown out 300 votes cast for " Matt
Head " in the Second District upon the
ground that the candidates true name
is Nathaniel Head, and all the votes
cast for the Prohibition candidate in the
Fourth District, upon the ground that
. he was ineligible, not having resided in
the State seven years. This gives the
Democrats majority of two in the Sen.
ate and the organization of the body.
This is the briefest statement of the
case There are charges of unfairness
and double-dealing against Gov Yves.
ton, who, it is said, agreed to have the
. matter referred to the Supreme Court
for decision, and did not fulfill his agree
ment. But there is enough in this sim
pie statement of the facts to show the
2 disposition by which these leading and
{ representative men of their party were
animated. 1t ought to be plain enough
even to purblind New Hampshire
Democratic politician, that there is nc
: advantage to be gained by this bit Of
e sharp practice which can compensate fol
t the damage the whole party must suffer
, from it, Indeed there IS no real advan
tage in it. The wrong will be righted
as soon as the Legislature is organized
| anu All lltdL WV. w tslOu anu HIS COuu
e ell of Cheap Johns will have gained b,
V il will be the notoriety attending a very
|. weak and stupid attempt to do very
dishonest and dishonorable thing. The
: will of the $4,000 voters who voted fol
Matt Head cannot be defeated b,
t any such game, but the men upon whom
d this fraud is attempted, and thousand o
!. others who may have been let into vot
ing the Democratic ticket in order t,
rebuke Republican trickery and dishon
4 esty, will turn away from Democrat,
e and all its works with loathing and dis
i. gust That kind of pettifogging is ba,
|, enough when it has some reasoable chanc
for success, and is undertaken with
: view of procuring some real advantage
: but when. as in this instance, it seems t
e be inspired by nothing but intrinsic dis
a honesty and absolute Inability to d
right when there is an opportunity to d
: wrong, rises to the dignity five may b
Is allowed the paradox-of total depravity
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