Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-11-06
The Result.


FROM tnt bOs'uu 'puthsi
While the majority against Gen. Butler is
not so large As it should have been. and not
so large as il might have been had our re-
publicans in many localities put forth
the efforts of last year il is sufficiently EN-
phatic to show that Massachusetts,, under the
most adverse circumstances, is thoroughly
republican state.
The most striking lesson which the result
presents is the weakness of the Independent
Republican movement. Except in here and
there a town, these leaders have been un-
able to break into the republican ranks and
TO lead republican voters into the camp of the
enemy. They present to the public the pitt
full spectacle of leaders without followers
of generals without soldiers. They
have shown themselves to be the Falstaffs OF
politics. They remind one of that regiment
of brgadiers of which we heard SO much
during the late war. They have afforded a
fresh illustration of the inability OF assumed
leaders of the republican party to induce the
sturdy mass of republican voters TO partlcl-
pate in their apostacy and treason. Their
failure should prove warning in the future
The most surprising feature of the returns
of yesterdays voting is the utter collapse OF
the SO called regular democracy. Mr.. Adams
will scarcely muster the meagre vote which
Judge Abbott polled last year. Indeed, there
is reason to believe that large part OF those
who voted for Mr.. Abbott last year supported
Gen. Butler on Tuesday.
The republicans of Massachusetts, have
not only declared against Butlerism, but
against the action and the purpose of the
democratic Congress. As in 1861. the repub-
lcans of Massachusetts now condem the
heresy Of State supremacy and the plot of
the democratic leaders to rule this country
bv fraud and violence At elections. AS in
1861, they propose to join the patriotic
North in resisting Standardization. In
short, the old-fashioned republicanism Of
Massachusetts, has re-asseried itself.
from the Boston Advertiser.
The significance Of these brilliant victo-
ries, which are but parts Of the great triumph
of the national republican party, is not to be
mistaken. 1t is demonstrated that the conf
dence of the people of the North in the great
political organization which carried the coun-
try safely through its most important war,
which prescribed the terms of peace, which
effaced on the first dvy of this year an always
visible trace of that war by the resumption
of specie payments, is completely restored.
The republican party is the party Of the flu
ture 1t is as strong to-day as it has ever
been. in the States where free elections are
allowed. 1t controls every northern State
which has voted this year, unless New Jer-
sey, from which we have not heard, is m ex-
ception. Its candidates, if a reasonable de-
gree of wisdom be shown in the selection of
them, NAV be elected to the Offices of Presi-
dent and Vice President of the United States,
next year, by triumphant majorities. So
much at least is made clear by Yesterdays
elections; and we have further to congratu-
late the country upon the complete and final
of financial heresy as polit-
ical force. The contest is once more mar
rowed down to the two old combatants. the
one having added a new claim to the conf
dence of the people by having resisted the
to gain votes bv abandoning prin-
cipe, the other having added new and
heinous offence to its long record Of evil-do-
ing by promptly yielding to temptation. The
choice Of honorable and conscientious men
between them will be easier made than ever
before.