The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-14
NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION

lC sAdtt tltCtiOu DidCC III
New Hampshire to-day, at which COVER
nor, railroad commissioner, councillors
and full senate aud house of representa-
tives are to be chosen. Last year, in the
largest vote ever poled in the state, Pear
son G. Cheney, republican, failed of an
election by the people by three hundred
and thlrtY.eight votes, although he had
plursli'y of one hundred and seventeen
over Roberts, democrat. He was subse-
quently elected by the legislature. The
total vote of the state was 70, 235, of which
80, $50 were republican, 30, 1853 democratic,
and 129 temperance. To 1874, Weston,
democrat, who was subsequently chosen
by the legislature, failed of an election by
the people by three hundred asd thirty
nine votes, although he had ,465 plurality
over McCutchins, republican. The total
vote was II ,S93 republican 81, 143, dem
ocratic 80, COS, temperance 2,141. The
indications, this year, are that Cheney,
republican, will be reelected by small
majority, and that both branches of the
legislature will be republican.
The effect of the disclosures relative to
Belknap's crime, which were expected to
be so disastrous and which, probably,
would have been in most states on the eve
Of an important election, seems to have
been comparatively harmless. To the
average voter of New Hampshire, it would
seem very much like jumping from the
frying pan into the fire, to change either
national or state administration on this ac-
count. They have, up that way, too
lively remembrance of Floyd's fraudulent
occeptances-th Dover banks holding
ninety thousand dollars of them, and the
Berwick bank twenty-five thousand dol
lars-to hope much by the exchange. 1t
may be poor argument to address to in
telligent men, but, after all, 1t does seem a
little preposterous to ask the republicans of
New Hampshire to forsske their party on
account of the frauds of asecretary of war,
when the only party offered them in ex-
change is the one which, during its last
days of power, had secretary of war
through whose frauds their own citizens
lost thousands of dollars-and the argu-
ment, such as it is, seems not to have been
without its weight.
But this aside, whatever effect these dis
closures might otherwise have had there or
elsewhere, it would have been-ana such
seems to be the case in New Hampshire
more than neutralzed by Clymer's culpable
carelessness, to call It by no worse name,
in letting the witness Marsh escape, and
thus rendering nugatory all attempts to
punish Belknap either by conviction in the
senate or In the courts. Moreover, the
counting in process, practiced by the dem
ocratic governor and council year ago, is
not forgotten the superiority of the re-
publican over the democratic nominees is
conceded /; and the stupendons blunders
of the democratic majority in congress, the
speeches of Ben Hill--Marcy, the candi-
date for governor, being democrat Of the
Hill stripe--all tend to make the New
| Hampshire voters fearful of again trusting
| themselves to the tender meTces of the
democracy. For these, as well as other,
reasons, we look for republican success in
New Hampshire to-day. The only doubt
full element in the contest is the 'purchas-
" able vote, and this seems about even
although the longest purse may give the
state to the democracy, but We hardly
| think so