Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-03-10
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY. MARCH 10, 1877.
THE RESULT.

The work OF counting the electoral
votes was completed Friday morning of
last week, and resulted, as it should have
done, i'm an official declaration of the
election of Rutherford B. Hayes as Pres
ident, and William A. Wheeler as Vice
President, for four years from March 4th.
1877. Although the result was attained
by the use of the electoral commission,
plan considered by many able minds as
entirely outside of the constitution. yet
it was the only result that could have
been justly arrived at had the constitu-
ton been strictly adhered to. and
although the plan was expressly devised
for giving the Democracy one more
chance to win what they had already
fairly lost, and was bad precedent to
establish. the country has reason to be
grateful that the decision resulted in de-
claring the Republican candidates as
being duly and legally elected. The sat-
isfaction that the question has been
definitely settled is not confined alone to
the Republican party, but is shared in
great measure by the better elements of
the Democracy, and some of the leading
Democratic papers of the country are
giving evidence of rejoicing over the de-
feat of the Democratic candidates. The
expressions an regard to Mr.. Tilden. which
were so generally INDUCED in by some of
the leading papers of that party
previous to his nomination are be-
ing renewed, and the language can only
be construed to mean that they are glad
that a man so unfit for the position has
been defeated. Not only are the candi-
dates eff the Democratic party spoken of
disparagingly, but the party itself. The
following from the Chicago Times shows
what it thinks of the party: a
That heterogeneous combination of
miscellaneous and peculiar officc-hunters
called the resurrected Democracy. has
gone all to pieces again. In fact never,
since it was called up from the political
grave yard by the scheme to make Sam
Tilden the national spoil dispensator, has
1t ever been anything but an incOherent
accumulation of disjointed fragmen ts-a
collection of political dry bones of all
extinct party animals, out Of which a
complete skeleton OF amy kind could not
be patched up. Though assuming to
have majority OF nearly two-thirds in
the national assembly, that majority was
made up of all the political odds and
ends of earth. Bourbons, Liberals, Sore
Traders, Bullionisrs, Rag-Lunatics,
Calhounites. Nationalist. men of every
sort and shade of political opinion. hold
ing utterly irreconcilable views. and |
agreeing upon nothing but the appetite |
for spoils, composed the absurd cOmbi- |
nation of old graveyard politicians that |
attempted to impose themselves upon |
the country rs the Democratic party come
back from the other side of the Stygian
river, with all the sins done in it's life
time burnt and purged away" bearing
new life, possessing reformed char
acter, and having new claim carefully |
cOneealed) popular trust and confidence.
With such an opinion of their own par
ty, is it any wonder that there should ex-
ist feeling OF satisfaction over the sue
cess of the Republicans. In Washington,
many of the leading men of the Democ-
racy joined with the Republicans in ten
dering congratulations to President
Hayes over his election. There is no
doubt, We think. that after the bitter par
tisan feeling over their defeat subsidies,
that the Democratic party will acknowl-
edge that the result arrived at was just
one, and the only one which could have
been reached constitutionally.