Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1876-11-08
Jhe freeman.
MONTPELIER VT.
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER s, 1870
The Result.

At the time of this writing the returns
,ndicte the election of Samuel j. 1llden'
~, democratic candidate for President
How large a majority If the electoral col
lrrc he will have is uncertain, but one j.
A. roo ~ Il hundred. for the purpose OF
determining The election. With the State
of New York counted on his side, the
rr>ul, can hardly be uncertain.
1t j. unnecessary to say to our readers
that this end If the campaign is in a meas
ure unexpected to us. While democrats
had apparently been growing in conf
I,ncr since the October elections. II hardly
was ro,>iblc to Us t AT the ate of
New York would 90 dem cratic; and with
New York voting for Hayes his election
seemed ,~crt,in But New York has de-
cilei the contest toy giving its vote to
1ild,n, and our wishes cannot change the
figures.
II is useless now 20 hunt for the causes
If this conclusion. There will be H. many
tNcu>cs Of, red for it a> there are republic
Guns to give them. CunR ling fl irndS Will
CHARGE the loss Of New York tn the treat
mrnt he received at Cincinnati, and in
the New York republican convention.
BIainc's friend, will say that II d tfrrrnt
result ut Cincinnati would have given IA
different result in the nation 50 Of Nor
ton. Ih"lcal reforming republicans will
insist that the campaign las been carried
on on TOO low Il plane, the living %qlc-tions
Of the day having been kept ont of sight,
and the III ISSUES having been given to-"
much prominence: while the other set of
republicans will urge that the republican
rrfnrmcr> have weakened and thus defeat
ed The parry.
1t is enough t" say. without criminstion
of any wing of the republican party. that
the patty lm, invited lis own f'tr. l. could
not have been beaten. unlc~- ii had beaten
itself. With sixteen wears ,ontrol Of the
government, It li.h order of statesman
ship would 20 have rrcOIumc nded the par
~ To the people that it could not have been
'lINtH OUT VI bIlItt. III l"'pt INV
when they are satisfactorily served, and d"
not 90 back on II party for q mere whim-
Surely no party ever had greater oppoltu
mites than have been given to the republi-
cans. and that they are now defeated, and
the administration turned over to their ad-
vcrsarics, Is their w fault.
There is, to be sure, no hope that the
democracy in power will do any better
there is no hope that they will do a, well.
They have shown neither statc>mln>hip
nor judgment, Eor apprehension of the
real needs of the people. In the mIin
they are a hungry crowd Of otlice.scekers.
looking out for themselves and not for the
county. Held in check by II republican
Senate and a watchful people, they may
not go wholly wild in their use of their
powcr-but that they can answer any of
their public promise, of rtform.-rcal re-
form IN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES be conf
IDENTITY looked ftrby any intelligent observer.
Al the very mmenccmc of Iildcn's
administration will be the dcmoralizinr
scramble for office. Democratic contrac-
tors and plunderers will crowd the capitol,
the departments, the Vile House; the
q" spoils' will have to he distributed; rs an
English minister once put it. they will
have to blood the noses of their hounds
They may he sure, however, of one thing.
the people will give them credit for any
good actually performed. however little
may now be hoped from them If they
should. by happy accident, do any of the
good they have promised, the country will
he sufficiently thankful not to be too criti-
cal OF the agency which brought it about.