Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-03-17
From the New York Times.

THE VICTORY Nv NEW HAHPSHIRE
New Hampshire has elected Republi'
can Governor and a legislature with ke-
publican majority in both branches. The
majority on the vote for Governor will be
at least 500, and has thus attained still
higher figure than was reached at the
Spring election OF 1872. Considering that
the State went Democratic two years ago,
and that the election of Governor was, last
year, thrown into the legislature, the party
triumph has wellmarked significance.
1t is an emphatic testimony not only to the
local superiority of the Republican plat
form and candidates over those OF their
opponents, but it shows that the majority
of the people of New Hampshire are still
of opinion that the honor and safety OF the
country are most secure in the hands OF
the Republican party. The results of the
election of yesterday carry rebuke to the
shutting policy of the leaders of the State
Democracy in regard to the financial issue.
They prove how grave bunder was
made at Washington in trying to make
partisan capital out of the BELkNAr I'M
parchment, and they show how effective
an agency for restoring union within the
Republican ranks, has been found in the
harangues of the more violent ex-Confed-
crates in Congress.
The lesson which New Hampshire has
read the Democratic party is obvious
enough Without either policy or princl-
pies, it has made no converts among the
intelligent voters of the country during
the last four years. So far as the North is
concerned, that party stands substantially
where 1t did in 1872, with the same ctr
tainty of defeat staring it in the face. Its
only hopes of success lie in the bunders
of its adversaries. There are those with
in the REPUBLICAN party who will seek from
the victory in New Hampshire an occasion
for the very blunders which would revive
the hopes of the Democracy. 1t will be
urged that the Republican majority in that
State is as solid as it was in 1872, when
the party accepted the responsibility for
both men and measures that it refuses to
bear any longer. We take the result in
New Hampshire to indicate that the rank
and file of the party retain their faith in
the progressive and reforming spirit of
Republicanism, which enables it to adapt
itself TO new conditions and to cast off the
corrupting elements which are the natural
heritage of a long possession of power.
OF course, those persons who have an in
terest in taking different view of the
matter are not at all likely to accept any
such theory. If the increased majority in
New Hampshire should be taken as an
evidence that the party has condoned all
the offenses against its good name which
have been committed by men whom it has
trusted. it would certainly prove very
questionable gain.
The Standard acknowledges that it de-
Tended Tweed until his robberies were
established by adequate proof" We
suppose that since the jury rendered
verdict the other day in a suit against
Tweed by the City of New York, in which
the city has judgment for upwards of six
million dollars, this may be considered
adequate proof of Tweed's guilt. The
Standard, however, seldom waits for cad
eauate proof" in its accusations against