Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-04-01
PrOlJlcts without Honor.


Prophets without Honor.
If we could have had Democra'
ic candidates enough there woulo
not have been q Democratic Town
left in the State. Marcy of Por,s
mouth very nearly wiped out a Ine
Democratic majority Of about svo
in his own city. Benjamin Franz
lin Jones of Darlington changed y
last wears Democratic plurality VI
I2 in that town to q Republican ma
iority of 10. Thomas Dinsmore OF
Alstead sent his town over to the
Republicans, and gave them all the
town officers. Dana Sargent OF
Hudson who wanted to represent
District No. 2 in the Senate, Mr..
Straw of Manchester who had SINH
lar ambition to serve this district,
and MIR. Weeks Of Canaan who
wanted to be reelected from No. IL,
were all eminently successful in
changing their towns from the Dem
ocratic to the Republican column.
Mr.. Carr of GOffstown, Senator
from No. s, had less opportunity to
distinguish himself for he lived in a
Republican town, but he is entitled
to the credit of increasing the Re-
publican majority four.fold; and
Averill of Milford, the Senatorial
candidate ia No. Z, added 30 to the
Republican majority in that town.
Cloutman of Pennington, Senatori'
al candidate in No. 6, found no diff.
ficulty in using up last years Dem
ocratic plurality of ~. and giving
the Republicans plurality OF 20.
"Our friend Sturoc' of Sunapce had
hard field to work in, tut hc shaw.
ed down his party's majority very
handsomely, and CObleigh of North.
cumberland did good work in the
same direction.
Nor were the Democratic candi.
dates for Councillors less effective in
good works. -Four out of five were
beaten by their Republican Oppo'
nents, and Marston of Sandwich
not only gave us his district, but
threw in his town to help us in the
House. Wherever a Democratic can.
didate, and particularly where a
Senate.stealer lived, there the light.
ming struck,-MirOr.
THE Concord Monitor tersely
gives the reasons for the Republi.
can victory in New Hampshire, as
follows:
Our success is due wholly to the
fact land this is all of the lesson)
that we fought the compaign squar-
ly on Republican issues-frst. in ia
vor of national supremacy second,
of equal rights and the laws Con
gress passed to give effect to the
constitutional amendments; third,
of honest money; fourth, of Grants
declaration concerning government
peculators,-''let no guilty man es.
cape;' fifth, of honest administra.
ton in all branches of the govern
ment; sixth, of our imperilled COM
mon school system.
No man who favors an inflated
currency no man with the smell OF
corruption Oh his garments; no man
in any way implicated with the
Credit Mobilier, the Whiskey Ring,
the District of Columbia Ring, or
any other combination formed to
rob the people, can derive comfort
from our election. 1t was won on a
platform from which all such crea-
lures were driven with scourges ;
and it is supreme folly for any Re:
publican newspaper of the nominal
sort, of any opposition journal, to
attempt to interpret the result diff:
ferentIy. We are proud to know
that the Republican party of New
Hampshire occupies no doubtful po'
siiion, but stands like rock in the
foreground of this Centennial year
in favor of honest officials, an hon
est government, and equal rights
for all.