St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10
The New Hampshire SenatOri-
nj Contest.
HAS NOT CREATED FACTIONS.

HAS MOI CREATED FACIlONS.
The fact that nearly all the republi-
cans voted for Mr.. Pike on the last bal
lot would indicate that the choice is
generally satisfactory, which leads one
to assume that the protracted contest
has not created factions which may
hereafter affect iniuriOusly the party
organization Boston Journal.
A CHOICE ALL WILL CHEERFULLY AC-
CEPT.
1t is a choice which all the divisions
into which the party separated after its
temporary collapse as one political or
ganizatiOn, will cheerfully accept. No
faction has triumphed at the expense
of another, but all have ut last united
in choosing a senator who will ably and
fairly represent them all, and, what is
better, will worthily uphold republican
principles and policy, and maintain
the full weight of the state in the Ma
tional Senate Boston Traveller.
NOTHING CUT AND DRIED.
New Hampshire follows Pennsyl-
vania in depOsIng the republican boss
es and i'll making the party action more
nearly register the will of the peo-
pie. There has been nothing ''cut and
dried" about the election of ex-Con-
gresham Austin F. Pike to succeed
Mr.. Rollins in the United States Sen
ate. This is a new and reassuring fact
in the politics of a state which has been
notorious for its subserviency to the
''machine," and the revolution has
come without much heralding.- Spring
field Republican.
MIR CHANDLER REBUKED.
The republican anti-machine revolt
in New Hampshire has been crowned
with complete and gratifying success.
The battle has been waged since the
first Wednesday in June, to the exclu-
sion of all other matters pertaining to
state business. The victory is worth
far more than it costs, however. The
boilers have accomplished much good
for the party in freeing it from the thral-
dom of the caucus, and rebuking Mr.
Chandler for leaving his post at Wash
ingtOn to interfere Portland Adver-
tiser.
DECAY OF THE SENATORIAL CAUCUS.
The long senatorial contest in New
Hampshire, which has just ended so
fortunately, did not mean the demoral-
ization of the Republican party in that
state, nor the general disintegration of
the party, nor any of the things which
the democratic newspapers are glib in
prOphesying of it. 1t was simply one
more sign of the growth of the republi-
can party away from machine methods,
and an apparent indication, also, of the
decay of the senatorial caucus.
1t will he interesting to see whether
the process of discarding the senatorial
caucus goes on, or whether after time
it takes its old place again in the party
machinery New York Tribune.
TO BE JUDGED BY THEIR RESULTS.
Messrs. Marston, Stevens, Briggs and
Patterson (all except the latter mem
berS of the legislature) have taken up
on themselves and their adherents the
responsibility for the first time during
the twenty-siX years of the republican
in this state of breaking up
the caucus system of nominating sena-
tors, of defeating the regular caucus
nominee, and of prOlonging the sena-
torial balloting during seven weeks,
until, at last, nothing but great for
bearance on the part of members who
differed from them has secured the
election of II republican senator solely
by republican votes. 1t is not neces-
rary at this time to pass Judgment up
on the extraordinary action thus taken
10y the distinguished gentlemen named.
While engaged in destroying the eau
Gus system they have professed con-
tlnucd adherence and devotion to the
republican PARTY II remains to be
seen whether they are sincere, and to
what extent the party will suffer from
their recent conduct. BY their results
rather than their motives they are like
ly to he Judged Concord Monitor.