The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-11-16
THE ELECTION.

THE ELECTION.
At this writing, Monday, the result is
not positively nown, but we believe
Hayes is elected. But let the result be
as it may, there are some matters that we
desire to speak of, things that make us
wonder that we ever carried enough cleo
toral votes to make good show, under
the circumstances. First, the hard times |
made many good, but foolish men cry for
change, under the hope that new ad-
ministration would make better times |
We showed the fallacy of such a cry, dur
ing the fight, but there is no Disgusting |
the fact that it carried away many thou
sands of votes. Next, right in the heat
of the canvass, the President was so short |
sighted as to remove Bristow and Jewell,
men who had large following, though as
faras the former is concerned, we consider |
his candidacy as one of the worst frauds |
of the age, and his claims on the place
were those only of demagogue, but there
is no Disgusting the fact, he had many |
friends, numbers of whom soured on the |
party because of his removal; while the |
.emoval of Jewell cost us Connecticut |
Besides these, the President failed, for
some reason to send troops south to pro
tect the Republicans who were being |
daily murdered, and never did send any
until the Democrats themselves began to |
cry for them, after the colored men be- |
gan to retaliate. This hesitation cost us
thousands of votes.
The Executive Board of the National
Republican committee sat around head |
quarters drinking champagne and smoking
cigars until the battle was lost in Indiana,
paid no attention to gallant little Colorado |
never sent speaker there, and when
finally awakened to the danger, and work
was commenced in New York, went to
work with sluggishness that was repre-
hensible, and took up its time writing cir
culars congratulating each other on work
that some one else had done, and it did not
even amount to good, first class, bump
on-a-log.
Then in New York; Tammany Hall
Democrats were badly divided on local
issues, and little intelligent management
would have kept them SO, and thus pre-
vented the great fraudulent vote being
east, on the principle of "set thief to
catch thief" but no, some fools at the
head of affairs there must try to build up
little capital for themselves, and they
sought to run a party city ticket, where the
majority was $4,000 against them, not hay
ingsense to see that just such action would
unite the opposing factions of Tammany,
aud make it fight the harder; this we spoke |
of in our daily week before the election,
and it came out just as we predicted;
Tammany united again, and swept every
thing, getting $4,000 where they should |
not have had 10000 But even against |
all these disadvantages we might have car
ried the Empire State bad it not been for
the selfish inactivity of certain leading |
men of New York, who disappointed in
personal ambition, would not work or en-
courage others to do so. Roscoe Conk-
ling, the Presidential candidate, went
home after the Cincinnati Convention,
where his friends had defeated the peo-
pies choice of Blaine) soured sorehead,
and never but once did he open his mouth |
in the campaign, and thaswas one of the
most dishwatery speeches of the sea-
son, and did more harm than good. A.
B. Cornell, Chairman Republican State
Committee was defeated for Governor,
and he did but little as Chairman to carry
the State, feeling sore at Hayes because
he wanted Conkling, and sore at Governor
Morgan, because he wanted to be gov.
ernor himself, and probably mixed with
little jealousy Of Wheeler We hope our
Iowa friends who favored Conkling will
do him the justice to put him where he be
longs, among the soreheads and soured
Republicans of that State, and we sincere
lyhope such fellows may be buried SO deep
by public opinion for their treason to party,
that they will never be heard of again until
Gabriel toots his horn. Altogether the
party has had an awful load to carry, and
the fact that it carried itself SO well against
all their conflicting and discouraging infu-
ences, is only proof positive of the stabili-
ty and justice of the principles of the par
ty. The principles are as sound and as ,
abiding as the rock of ages, and only
treachery in the house of its supposed
frienis, and dangerous mistakes or inefi- ;
Gent management of its leaders, could
ever place IL 50 near the jaws of defeat