Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1880-11-04
The Result.

The grand presidential election of 1880 is
over, and the Republicans have won most
decisive victory. As far as returns have been
received they show solid North arrayed
against the solid South, with the possible ex-
| ception of New Jersey. New York, the key
stone of the electoral arch, gives some thirty
thousand majority. Connecticut goes heavily
for Garfield, and elects the Republican State
ticket, three cut of four Congressman, and
every Republican candidate for sheriff except
in New Haven county. We hear nothing
special with reference to the legislature but
that is no doubt Republican.
The tidal wave that swept over Indiana and
Ohio in October has kept on with undated
force, and the result has been the mos, deci-
sive vote of want of confidence in the Demo-
cratic party that the country has ever given.
True, there have been more electoral votes
cast for Republican candidates before than
will be given next February, but the North
has never shown such an undivided front
against Democracy as it shows to-day.
The result is overwhelming. March 4th 81
will see the Republicans once more in control
of both Houses of Congress Gin the Senate by
the Vice Presidents casting vote) as well as
of the administration =. We hope they will
use their power wisely.
The South should see that the North is at
last unit, not against reconciliation, not in
favor of any domination of ignorance and
corruption in Southern local affairs, but
against the restoration to control of national
South almost as one man into rebellion in
1851. If the Republican party attempts more
than this; if it takes advantage of its new
lease Of power to restore Carpetbaggery to
power it will find itself again travelling the
downward path which led it near to destruc-
ton in 1874.
The Republican party has assumed other re-
sponsibilities than those relative to the South.
1t goes into power as more reliable both as re-
CARDS Currency and Tariff reform than its OPP
ponents The first step it takes should be to
stop the coinage of silver dollars worth less
than ninety cents each, yet enacted legal
tender for one hundred cents The repub-
lican party should also give the country q
reasonable measure of revenue reform. The
existing tariff is, in many of its features. in
defensible. While business men are opposed to
coming down to a tariff for revenue only, they
must consent to fair revision of an affair of
patchwork whicd conforms to no principle.
Another thing the Republican party cannot
afford to forget-how much they owe to Pres
ident Hayes His Southern policy, just and
moderate as it certainly was, seemed at first
calculated to inflict severe injury on the party
which elected him. Heated partisans de-
nounced him most virulently, but the result
has not only been to purify by to strengthen
Republicanism throughout the country. In
like manner he made great advance towards
civil service reform. Here, too, he met with
nothing but Stalwart reproaches; but, to-day,
cleared from the stain of Grantism, the Re-
publican party stands higher in the estimation
Of men whose esteem is worth having than
it has ever done since the death of Abraham
Lincoln. In short Mr.. Hayes has seen, what
few politicians appreciate, how strong thing
is moral force in politics. All we ask of Gar
field Is that he follow the footsteps of Q pre-
decessor who, if not illustrious is generally
and justly honored by the American peo-
pie.