Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-12
THE MAINE ELECTION.

corning the Maine election, as follows:
The indications from the returns received
up to this hour IL o'clock point to a ma
iority of from 5000 to 10000 for Governor
Conner over Williams, the regular Demo
cratic candidate Some 5000 votes, at least,
have been thrown for Munson, the Greenback
candidate, drawn from both parties. The Re-
pubhcans have probably elected twenty -four
of the thirty one state senators, and fully two
thirds and probably three fourths of the house
of representatives. 1t looks as though we
had carried every county In the state except
two.
The Republican majority in Maine, this
year, is considerably reduced below that of
last year. (They elect Governor every
twelvemonth in that State J. But majority
of one is a majority. The result shows that
the party is alive. 1t has stuck to its colors
The political policy and personal course of
President Hayes were not endorsed. On the
contrary, they were deliberately repudiated
by that significant silence which does not give
assent. Maine shows what can be done by
being more loyal to the party and its princi-
pies than 10 a Dolly Warden President with
his policy. Now the next test in order is
Ohio. Mr.. Hayes, with great flourish of
Carl Schurzs) trumpet, proclaimed instan
taneous decapitation to all National Office
holders who presume to participate in poll
tics. Meantime he sent his emissaries into
Ohio to control the Republican Convention;
and now he has gone there himself to exert
what influence he can upon the October Elec-
ton. We believe his hypocritical, false pre-
lenses will be rebuked. We believe that
there is enough of solid manhood in the Re-
publican party of that State to withhold from
the President and his policy an endorsement
whose most obvious moral effect would be the
humiliation of every loyal member of that
party to the purposes and impudent assump-
tons of the marplots who surround the White
House. At the South the Republican party
has been completely at the mercy of the
President. Where is it now? The last dis
tinctive act of it's performance was to record
its acquiescence in the policy which strangled
it, and then give up the ghost. We know of
nothing so abject and pitiabe in all the his
tory of politics. After struggling heroically
for years, the Republicans of Mississippi and
Georgia finding themselves formally and
coldly abandoned to the mercy of the rebels
are so weak as to lick the hand of the man
who bids them die. 1t is fact, so far, that
wherever Hayes has had influence enough to
secure an endorsement of his policy by the
Republican Conventions the party has gone
to its death. Such endorsements ought to be
fo1 NV Az,
have insisted time and again, If Hayes is |
right the Republican party is a mere imperti- |
hence. One of the chief functions OF that !
party is to keep the Secession Democracy |
from gaining the ascendency in this Repub-
lie. The President says by his every word |
and act that in choice between National |
and State Rights Democracy,
the choice is in favor of the latter. What
his acts and purpose evidently mean, is, that
between State Rights Repubicanism and
State Rights Democracy his choice is in favor
of the former. Rutherford 3. Hayes, if he
is anything and we doubt his possession of
mind enough to have any clear notions of
Craftsmanship is follower of Salmon P.
Chase. Chase was States Rights Abolition
ist. He was a Confederate Free Soiler Civ
ing Hayes's policy its very best estimate and
it merely splits hairs with the Democracy.
Now We do not believe in any quibbling pol
itcs. There are two manners of essential
thought in this Republic One bases itself
on the National Idea and cherishes National
Supremacy. The other holds to the sover-
eighty of the States as against what they call
80 The Federal Compact" The one idea was
necessary to the upholding of the Flag of the
Union, the other justifes as it suggests the
right of Secession. 1t is folly to think that
The Doctrine taught by Calhoun is dead. 1t
S equally weak and foolish not to recognize
n Hayess policy dangerous tampering with
hat doctrine. Indeed, the Chase school of
politics meets Calhounism half -way But we
nave wandered from our subject. We were
lealing with the Hayes influence in active
politics. We believe that for any convention 7
If the Republican party to indorse it is for
hat organization to first confess judgement
n favor of the Democracy Cor the Dolly +;
Vardens, who are its satellites }, and then go S
nto dissolution. If there is not great,
bridgeless gulf between National :;
and State Rights Democracy Y
hen there is no difference worth taking into v