The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-04-15
The Connecticut Election.

G0V. lngers0ll IS re-eecteu ny Hanuaoile
majority, and the Congressional delegation is
completely reversed In the last Congress the
Republicans had three and the Democrats one
member. Starkweather, the only Republican
elected this time, has a majority of only 372
against 1,177 last year. Landers, Phelps and
Barnum are the successful Democrats. The
total vote for Governor was 53,7S5 Democratic,
443O1 Republican, $500 Prohibition and IA
scattering, leaving Democratic majority Of
6,66l. This is the largest vote ever polled in
the State, which is due to spirited canvass on
both sides and the unusually bright weather on
election day. The Senate will stand Is Demo
Gratis to Republicans. The House is 1873
Democrats to 100 Republicans and one indie
pendent. The majority on joint ballot is 80
votes against % last year. Here and there the
Republicans made gains, but the general loss
swels the verdict against them, and the pro-
portionate gain for the Democrats in the aggre-
gate vote is equally satisfactory.
The issues in Connecticut were entirely diff
ferent from those which obtained last month
in New Hampshire. In the latter State, there
was an entire absence of any purpose on the
part of the Republicans to sustain President
Grant in his aspirations for the third-term or
to justify the action of his administration on
the Louisiana question. These issues were
sharply defined in Connecticut, where the Re-
publicans endeavored to sustain Gen. Grant at
every hazard. His particular friend and
champion, Gen. Hawley, was defeated for
Congress, and the Republican candidate for
Governor, Mr.. James Lloyd Green, was selec
ted for his ardent devotion to the President,
which was manifested when Sheridan dispersed
the Louisiana Legislature by his ordering
salute of one hundred guns n the city of New
Haven, of which he was the Mayor. The de-
feat of these prominent and decided friends of
the President is more significant than even the
general result The Democrats wisely seized
the opportunity to make an aggressive warfare
upon the Republican citadel, so weakened and
endangered by blind adherence to the for
tunes of the President The favorable results
will encourage the Northern Democracy, and
wherever it is possible to make square issue
hereafter assuredly it will be done. 1t is natu'
raj to suppose that a revulsion of sentiment
among Republicans will take place, and Presi-
dent Grant will be deemed responsible for their
continued defeats and disaster, but he has the
inside track in the control of their party ma
chnery, and the third term movement will be-
come more prominent than ever as we approach
the next national campaign. His stubbornness
and defiance of such as would check his aspi-
rations only assists towards glorious victory
for the Democrats We trust his ambition will
be unchecked and unSatsfed until deliverance
from personal rule is obtained.
The Boston Post (Democratic) concludes all
article, congratulating its readers upon the re-
cent victories in Connecticut, with some very
sensible reflections upon the political situa-
tion
In this popular persistence for better things
in government there is q profounder purpose
t.than the party politician apprehends: These
repeated popular rebukes are not administered
by accident, or from al intermittent impulse
Last years proclamation constituted the open
ing of an entirely new era in public affairs. 1t
declared an untiring hostility henceforth to
bad and corrupt government, by whatever name
the party administering it might be known. 1t
is upon that high plane that politics are to be
conducted and they fail miserably to read the
lesson who think by plausible words or plead
ing action much less by open party defiance,
to lead the people to forget the vigor of their
indignation and the steady recttude of their
purpose. The best, and in fact the only thing
left to the Republican party is to abjure Grant
ism as it would fly from fate; to unite in swell
ing the popular sentiment in condemnation of
every form of corruption and abuse which
gives it its only distinction and to assist
earnestly in bringing back republican govern
ment to safe constitutional moorings again.
The list of wrongs and usurpations, of abuses
and frauds, which have been scored against
Grantism is too long for recital, but in its entire
Specification it has not so soon become forgotten
| by the popular mind. The time has come to
rebuke and put down the power that presumes
to demand approval for such parade OF faults.
| Connecticut freemen have now rounded out
the Judgment of November, and pointed the
way to the needed victory of 1876 To begin
the second century of the national life with
the Inauguration of the third-term heresy, and
with so threatening an illustration of it as
Grantism supplies, would be but mocking the
efforts and sacrifices of the patriots who fought
and died, not for power, but for freedom alone.
The New York Times (Republican) looks
upon the result in much the same light as n
defeat of the administration policy towards the
Southern States:
The campaign in Connecticut has been
largely defensive one While in form it was
| On attach IN the Democratic party for its reac-
tionary tendencies and its completely with
the disorders that exist, or have recently exist
ed in the South, it was in effect defense o
the measures of the Executive and of Congress
which were based on those disorders, and
meant to suppress them and prevent their re;
currence. The principal arguments addressed
to the people of Connecticut were, IN substance
a justification of the course of the Government
in Louisiana, of the attempted Legislation
known rs the Force bill, of the Civil Rights law
and of that general purpose of the Administers