Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-10-17
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MONTPELIER VT.
WEDNESDAY. OCT. II. 1877.
The Fall Elections.

The Fall Elections.
Full returns from the Ohio election
show that r. NJ. Bishop democrat, has
about $4,000 plurality over Judge West,
the republican candidate; and the demo
Gratis have an overwhelming majority in
the legislature, The causes of this big
majority are set forth in so many way
that the only wonder is that there hap
pened to be any republican vote at all.
The democratic congressman who de-
nounced the burglarizing of the White
House" and abused Mr.. Hayes as well as
they know how, and they know how very
well, Mt the Washington serenade las
week lay ii mainly to the disgust of honest
people at " counting in fraudulent presi-
dent" That is the New York San plat
form. Gen. Beatty and Ben Wade are
sure it was the betrayal of the negroes and
old fashioned republicans by the presi
dents southern policy. Others claim that
it was because the convention did not in
dorse Mr. Hayes half enough. Then the
wolkingmcn polled large vote, twenty
five thousand or so, and that accounts for
the defeat, and several other reasons are
assigned the civil service order among the
rest.
There does seem to have been something
the matter beyond the fact that the demo-
Gratis, being very angry about what they
call the "great fraud, +" worked for victory
us men will do when mad clear through
We have no doubt that the southern poll
cy made many republicans stay at home.
and that the civil service order did the
same.
But the weather is very much the same
us before the Ohio election The national
House of Representatives is now us then
in democratic hands, the Senate is close
with chances of being democratic befo'c
long. The executive branch of the gov.
eminent is yet republcan-uness we take
rs truthful t. C tale that the President has
betrayed his party. Now the Beatty
republicans have just rs good II right TO
rebel against their party rs the liberal
republicans have. The way this country
is to be governed is by II maj 'rity of votes
and the only way to have the government
republican is to have more voters ut the
polls than the other parties have.
Military domination in the south is
thing of the past. A majority of northern
people are opposed to it. But if those who
believe it should have been continued are
sufficiently angry about the matter, to Stay
away from the polls and place democrats
in power nsteld of republicans who do
not wholly agree with them, well and
good.
When various classes of republicans
conclude not to take republicanism with
out prohibition, without such II southern
policy as perfectly suits them or without
course as TO civil service which pleasc>
them-they have Il perfect right to do it.
They have simply to choose whether it is
better to put The democracy in, power or
not. If they conclude that it is, the re-
publican party then becomes once more
" the opposition and will then begin to
g tther strength.
The Independent voting element in this
country is getting pretty large-thou9h
too much of ii comes from the republican
side-so large in fact that the party in
power for any length of time is sure to
offend enough of that element to throw
the balance Of power at the polls the Other
way. Heretofore the "od guard repub
licans have denounced this element, now
some of them become part of it. Tn,
Springfield RcpUb ica5 and the 1ribuncS
can now claim to have Beatty and his
crowd among their followers.
The Massachusetts republicans are troub.
led by having many of those who believe
in prohibition and who do not like Hayes
drawn Off to the support If Putnam rol
governor, whereas in New York the HAYES
republicans propose to support the Roch-
eSler ticket although they do not like the
platform. The Ohio plan if carried out in
Massachusetts will defeat Rice and elect
Castor, but if there are republicans down
there who are opposed to the platform en-
dorsrment OF Hayes that is the only way
for them TO free their minds o ,y they
ought not to talk any more about betray.
nj of party" They are the ones who put
the democracy in power.
In Iowa the only noticeable of feature
last weeks election was the vote, about
10000, received by the greenback oandi.
date.