The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-04-08
Connecticut Democratic.


back Ingersoll's majority over all 1000;
over Robinson, Republican, 1890. Ma
jOrity in the Legislature on joint ballot,
go, securing the U. S. Senator. The vic
tory in Connecticut is complete, aud may
be summed up thus--a popular majority
over all of 1900, Legislature largely
Democratic, all the members Of Congress
but one, and two U. s. Senators. The
effect of the news in Washington was very
decided and depressing to the Republicans.
The Democrats were eorrespondingly Ella
ted The Nep York Tribune, of We'd
nesday, a journal of Republican proelivi-
ties, makes the following comments on the
result:
''Close on the heels Of the Belknap expos.
ure, the Republicans won in New Hampshire.
With better ticket and platform, they were
beaten month later in Connecticut Is
there politician so blind that he cannot see
the meaning Of these events? After the New
Hampshire election we warned the Republi-
cans that their increased confidence was mis-.
taken and might prove fatal; that the full
effect of exposures Of fraud was not immedi.
ately felt; that it took time for facts to pro.
duce their full impression upon the average
voter, just as it takes time for the escaping
water TO undermine dam. Public confidence
in party managers yields slowly at fist; after.
ward comes the break, aud then the destruc-
tive deluge. No man can guess how far
popular confidence in the Republican party
has been undermined by recent exposures.
But, with all allowance for extraordinary ef.
forts in New Hampshire, the Republican
party is proved to be weaker than it was q
month ago, for in Connecticut a very large
vote has resulted in a decisive Democratic
victory.
For many years Connecticut ias been the
political barometer. In Presidential year
the Republican party has counted upon that
State with certainty, and never in vain. In
1876 it gives the Democrats a majority, not
Of tens or hundreds, but Of thousands, and
that against the best ticket the Republicans
could name. Connecticut, New Jersey, and
New York are ruled by substantially the same
elements; in decisive battles they are usually
found on the same side, and they are now
Democratic. The result in Connecticut shows
that the Republicans have not yet taken such
position as to have chance of carrying
either of these States. Nor can any man
guess how much weaker that party will be
found when the story of raseality in high
places has had time to reach all the voters.
That il will be weaker, in all human proba.
bility, every intelligent man must admit, but
it is weak enough even now to lose these three
Eastern States. With them goes the last
chance Of electing Republican President,
except by complete and unmistakable change
Of policy. New York, New Jersey, and Con.
necticut, with Indiana and the Democratic
States Of the South, suffice to end the fight
OTHER COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.
The great Democratic triumph in Connec.
ticut on Monday is the grandest victory ever
achieved in this State by the Democracy and
it is the most crushing and lasting defeat the
Radical party has ever sustained. What
causes have produced this result? The people
are satisfied that the Republicans cannot re.
form the abuses within their party. A change
of party in the administration Of the Govern.
ment is demanded. The effort of the House
to retrench is sustained. The action OF the
Senate to continue improper expenditures is
condemned. The corruptions that pervade
every department of the Government have
had their influence. The rings that rob, and
are so firmly fastened upon the Government,
are alarming the people. They must be
broken up.-HaIftord Times, Dem.
The verdict of Connecticut is, that if ST.
Louis shall honestly accept the policy that has
triumphed in Iugersoll and English, and Gin.
cinnati shall make no emphatic departure
from the degradation of modern Republican
rule, the next President will be liberal and
patriotic Democrat. There it is, in terms so
plain that he who runs may read, and we com
mend It to perspiring statesmen, with Presi.
Dental bees buzzing in their bonnets, as wor- !
thy OF their most careful study. Philadelphia
Times, Ind
IL is clean sweep. A political victory
was never more honestly won or more thor.
oughly deserved than that with which the
Democrats Of Connecticut open the Centen.
NAL campaign. They fought it boldly ON a
platform embodying the distinct principles of
Hard Money and purity in administration,
making the issues of the canvass national in /
their scope, and they have gained a success
encouraging to the party and the people |
throughout the country, as well as honorable |
to themselyes.-Boston Post, Dem.
The Republicans cannot even hope for |
Connecticut, next fall, with any less popular
candidate than Bristow, Tilden, Thurman or
Judge Davis would easily beat Blaine there.
< single member Of the lower branch of Con.
gress is all that the Republicans have left of
their late complete and steady ten years su.
premacy in Connecticut Both Senator's.
three OF the four Congressman, and the whole
State government are now Democratic. Is
the moral far TO lind ?-SprinQfed Repubi.
eau, Ind.
The greenback movement in this State may
be considered dead. In this city, where the
party had its greatest strength, the result Is
peculiarly gratifying. Its candidates are de.
feated, horse, foot and dragons. Not a
: greenbacker" survives to croak in an off. |
ciaf position over bastard currency. Con.
necticut says she will have gold and silver
Neg Harea Register, Dem.
The reputation Of the rag money theory |
by the people of Connecticut is the more sig.
nihcant because SO large proportion Of the |
population of that State is made up Of labor. |
ing men, mill operatives and mechanics. who |
have been supposed to be particularly liable
70 be led away by the cheap money talk |
Washington Star.
Over the election in New Hampshire we
fear the Republicans rubbed their hands in |
corners and said to each other that sit was
not much Of shower after all - but yester. |
days election warns them that the test of the |
effect OF administrative corruption upon the |
PoPuiat Notr is unly ueiefreu until the cleo /
uon is national EN- y. Herald, Ind, |
Connecticut has done nobly--much better !
than the most sanguine amongst us had dared |
to hope. She gives a. new Impetus TO the |
cause Of political regeneration and unmista. |
kable emphasis to the popular demand for |
change in the management of national af |
fairs. IN. Y. Eeeniag Express, Dem.
We regret the loss Of the Connecticut Leg.
stature, involyiugth the election Of Democratic |
Senator for the fnIlterm in place Of the late !
Senator Ferry. We had reason to hope for
q small Republican majority on joint ballot.
The Legislature was the vital point of The |
canvass. Utica Hsrdld, Rep.
Free, untrammelled, interrupted and Dem |
ocratie Connecticut, leads the Centennial col
nmn that's to put down and wipe out corruption
and restore the Government once more to the |
path OF honesty and economy. The era Of |
corruption is passed. - ftsburg Post, Dem.
The appropriation, 100000, for the
current fiscal year for lights and fuel for
post Offices and custom houses made BY |
the former Congress, was largely in excess /
OF other years, yet the money is exhausted |
three months before the expiration of the