The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-03-16
NEW HAMPSHIRE.


4 From the meagre reports by telegraph ]
i seems that the Republicans of New Hamp
shire have not been shaken in their allegiance
70 the party Of Grant, Belknsp, Schenck. Bah
cock and the whisky stealers. Last year
after an animated canvass and lively cleo
ton, in which 1900 voaes were polled, Per
son G. Cheney, Republican candidate fol
Governor, received majority OF less thai
2OO-792 votes being cast for temperance
candidate.
In 1874, in total vote OF about S2,oOV'
Weston, Democrat, received majority Of
1465, the temperance vote being 2l0O.
Ia 1875 the Democrats gained two members
of Congress-
The Democrats of New Hampshire have
never had majority at any Of the twenty
five State and general elections since 1883.
They had plurality in 1868, in 1871 and
again in 1874, otherwise, for more than twenty
years, or since the Republican party succeede d
to the American party, the State has been
Republican by msjorities ranging from less
than 200 TO about 5000. When elections were
closely contested the floating or temperance
vote has usually been small.
Where party lines are and have long been
so strictly drawn there has been but little rea-
son to expect any extraordinary change either
for us or against Us. Returns received indi-
cate q full vote, which is always incident to
an election which enlists the feeling and
arouses the interest of the people.
The friends of the Administration made
great exsrtions and spared neither pains nor
money to poll heavy Republican vote The
State was canvassed by many of the most
popular and skillful debaters Of the party,
who were no doubt we'll paid for leaving their
homes or offices to brave the drifts and blasts
of New Hampshire winter. Local questions
appear to have been subordinated to party is
sues, and the election was made rehearsal
or drill pre- psratory to that of next November.
The irfammatory tactics of Morton and
Blaine were pursued vigorously, every
effort being made to re-awaken the ami
mostly, venom and malignant spirit Of
the war. Infinite care was taken to give the
widest circulation to every recent speech in
Congress or elsewhere that could be miscon-
strued or distorted into an expression of
Sou thern disloyalty. With this purpose the
eloquent and indignant speech of Mr.. Hill, o.
Georgia, in garbled form and without refer
ence TO the provocations under which the
true speech Was made, was circulated through
out the State as campaign document Every
possible effort with this purpose was made to
ALLEVIATE Fl ON the Democratic party the liberal
and conservative friends of reform in local
and nationa afiairs. The object of Radical
harangues being to persuade the people Of
New Hampshire that q rebellious spirit pre-
walls among the Southern people, they were
heard and spplauded by people often before
deceived and eager to be deceived again. The
anti Democratic voters Of Northern States
yreedily swallow slanderous tales told to our
le.riment. The dry earth does not more
freely drink in the falling rain than Radical
listeners devour Radical ISLANDERS against the
people Of the South. The day is far Of when
politicians will cease to play upon their pre-
udices and their enmity in the same way.
The Republicans Of New Hampshire EVIL
lently care nothing at all about the villainies
If Radical officials which have recently been
brought to light. If every Cabinet officer had
,een convicted Of bribery, if frauds upon the
'evenue had been proven to fifty times the
'xtent revealed, or if the buying and selling
# lvotes, offices and influence had been
hown to be the universal Radical habit, no
fleet would have been produced upon the
laters of the South who live and vote in New
They will sustain thieves.
moving them to be such, if they also know
hem to be our enemies.