The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-11
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION.
THE PROBABILITY OF BILL rHAND-
LER BEING SENT TO THE UNITED
STATES SENATE.

sAAAES 6ENAIE.
| Lamar's speech on the silver Question
| How IL Will Help the south in BOr-
! rowing Money In Europe.
Especial Correspondence of the Democrat1
RIGGS HOUSE,
Washington, March 6, 1873.
| THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION,
which occurs next Tuesday, attracts less
attention outside that State than any held
| there for many years, and perhaps the interest
| manifested by the people of New Hampshire
| themselves is proportonately Ianguid We
are told that this state of things is due to the
'off year" or to the fact that the Republicans,
torn by dissension, are making but feeble
efforts compared with former years, whereby
| the Democrats are enabled to take their ease
| and walk over the track. This information Is
| probably true to great extent, but there is
| another fact which must be taken into consid-
Grafton in accounting for the apathy man.
ifested not only in New Hampshire now, but
which has been shown more or less In every
| election that has taken place since 1876. This
is the fact, that there is no real issue at stake
In which the mass of the people take any in
| terest. There are, indeed, two political par
chinery of committees, local, State and
national, and preserving some traditions of
! alignment, If not of discipline, In Congress
| and in the Legislatures of States. But there
is no warm, aggressive vitality of organism
| In either party among the masses Of the peo-.
pie, nor is there any of that sharp distinctive
| ness of sentiment and feeling between men
who call themselves Democrats and men who
call themselves Republicans that used to dis
tinguish the two great party divisions of the
| body polite. Viewed according to the ancient
maxims Of electioneering, there is every rea
son why the impending election in New
Hampshire should possess great interest. 1t
is the opening gun of the grand national COM
bat which is to determine the composition Of
THE NEXT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
Under ordinary circumstances that fact
alone would be sufficient to make the narrow
limits of the granite State TEEN with rival
orators, and resound with the platitudnous
eloquence of the stump. Heretofore, the last
week of the New Hampshire campaign has
been signallzed by an exodus of Congress
men of both parties from Washington, with
their pockets full Of public documents and
five-act tragedies yclept speeches; but this
IroD hnc M nd
people of the State of Bill Chandler seem to
be left, peradventure, to their own destruc-
ton.
One suggestion in explanation OF this pecu-
liar state of facts might be that the proceed
ings of the electoral count set people to debatr
ing the question, "Do elections elect?" with
such a prepOnderance of argument in favor of
the negative that the sovereigns of the ballot
nave lailen lllto nlsneartenneht: N But SO lar
as New aalhpsiilre Is concerned, at least, me
apaIlly VI tha soVeIelgts Oh Gne pailot Is que
@ lol SO mucn 10 thelr dlsgust at me perVersion
ana deciv OF the electlve 1fanchlse as TO the
| uesueCuae thlS year OF the peculiar electlol.
| eeIing inethouS Which even tne eHlgencleS Oh
made a fived n1stnn of That ic p'e rs Gov T.,
palmer terms, New HAMPSHIRE has been
| bought at auction by the Republicans at every
| important election since the spring of 1872
with 50 much regularity and such business
like san0 froid That the veomanry ,lp there
had come to look upon the proceeds Of their
| votes as a source of income quite as certain
and inalienable as the potato crop or any other
staple of life. AS the Republicans set the
fashion, the Democrats were forced, of course.
| to follow suit which they did feeby and afar
| off: not SO much because their consciences
| were keener as because their campaign funds
were as a rule less ample than those of the
enemy. But this year there is
ro ,,,.rru r, r,,,, ,,.,-r.,e
nv A'osht i, ~ ihh ,AHsne' ,sl,
Oh ,tt nlICnef f, SIZE, anu apouc as ntue genuine
political feellng or party enthusiasm What
genuine 1 1eellng there Is Is all on the side OF
the Democrats 1of
THE REPUBLICANS ARE DIVIDED INTO TWO
FACTIONS,
the Haves men and the Bill Chandler men
in the proportion OF about ten of the latter to
every one Oh eie lorlermala IA apart lroin tne
elorls Oh nuuloer ol sgnatoriai asplrahts 1or
Inc u seaG no" helu py Wa:ulelgn 70 secure q
rep @isepuplean LegislattI,e = . u IL cQula De sale1y
welcome defeat in order to have the satisfac-
tion of blaming the disaster of the party upon
the other faction. The most interesting fea-
ture of the whole business is the operations
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