Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-04-04
The First Sign.

The result of the New Hamnsbiro
election is very gratifying. 1t is the frst
immediate popular response to the worSs
and acts of President Hayes, and shows
that there is no fear or doubt among those
who supported his election Not only ia
his majority more than sustained in an
ordinary State election, when the fi,ureS
of the preceding Presidential wear arc
seldom reached, but there is Republican
gain in Members of Congress, which
brings the next House nearly to tie
The election in New Hampshire is but
one OF the many signs of the unalterable
opposition OF intelligent Northern senti.
ment to Democratic ascendency under
such control as that of which the country
had plain glimpse in the closing hours
OF the late Congress. Col. IngersoIl In
his late lecture did but Justice To tne
manly patriotism of the Southern Demo.
cratic leaders in withstanding the Bour.
bons Of the North. Could they have ba6
their way, could Field and Knott and Gov
and Springer and Beebe, and the other
anarchists and revoutionists, have pre-.
vailed, the country would have been
plunged into unreasonable calamity
1t is the instructive recoil of an intelli
gent, industrious and conscientious peo-
pie like those of the Northern States from
the mad fury of the spirit of '93 in France
which explains the steady and virtually
solid opposition of the North to Demo-
cratic supremacy. For that element shows
itself only in the Democratic party.
Thus, in the last desperate struggle of the
revolutionsts in the House on the Cd of
March, just after the Speaker had de-
clared that the Chair would no longer
submit to the disturbance, and had an
pealed to the members to be in order a
Mr.. Sparks, of Illinois, shouted, "The
Chair is simply the Speaker Of this House
of Representatives. We arc the repre-
sentatives Of the people" 1t was precise.
~ the spirit and tone of the old French
Convention. 1t was an appeal from the
lawful order instituted by the House ID
self to the passions of a mob. That was
the feeling upon which the anarchists
played. 1t was happily resisted by
Southern Democratic leaders, and by
Fernando Wood and others from the
North, in accord with the Republicans
But it was "A Thoroughly Democratic ee-
ment, and it is this element, always strong
in the Democratic party, which the coun-
try has now plainly seen, and which
deepens the invincible distrust of that
party in this part of the Union.
There is now no question before the
country which, so far as appears, cannot
be settled upon the general principles an
nounced by the President, by cooperation
between the better elements of both par
ties. The only plausible pretext for the
existence Of the Democratic party is what
is called local self government at the
South The Democratic Interpretation Of
that phrase is practical disregard of equal
rights, race hatred and white supremacy
at all costs. The Republican interpreta-
ton is race amty and the consequent
natural leadership of intelligence.
Toward this Interpretation the Southern
leaders incline. This is the keynote of
the policy of the Administration, as stated
by the President in his inaugural address.
This is the wise and just solution of the
problem. And the result of the New
Hampshire election is the first significant
sign of the hearty National approval
which is sure to attend it.--Hdrper's
HeeblB