The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVt.MBER 24, 1866.

REPUBLICAN VICTORIES AND GAINS.

Twelve States held State and Congressional elec-
tions on Tuesday, and the result, as was expected,
shows that the Republican supremacy is still un-
broken, while "my policy" has received even a
severer rebuke than by the elections in October.
In Massachusetts, New York, Delaware, Michigan,
and Kansas only were governors elected, and the
Republican candidates were carried in by increased
majorities in all of them except Delaware, where
the Democrats still remain in power contrary to the
hopes and expectations of the Republicans, who,
in the person of James Riddle, had up one of their
most popular men as a governatorial candidate.
In Massachusetts the Governor vote will reach
130,000 against less than 100,000 last year, and
Governor Bullock has fully three votes out of every
four cast. Massachusetts also elected, in addition
to the entire state ticket, ten Republican Congress-
men, a State Legislature entirely Republican in the
Senate, and with not more than a baker's dozen of
Democrats in the house, and the entire Republican
ticket for local and county officers. New York
re-elected Governor Fenton by a majority of from
5,000 to 10,000, notwithstanding the immense ma-
jorities cast against him in New York and Brooklyn.
In these cities the Democrats also gained several
Congressmen, Bernando Wood, and Morrissey,
the gambler and prize fighter, among them ; but
as the Republican made several gains in the country
districts, the Congressional delegation will stand
the same as at present, 20 Republicans to 11 Demo-
crats. New Jersey elected a Republican Legislature,
thus securing a Radical United States Senator in
place of the dead Copperhead Senator Wright, and
the Republicans get three out of the five Congress-
men, a gain of one. Delaware, besides electing
Gove Saulsbury, Governor, by a majority of 1,000,
returns Jas. A. Nicholson, Democrat, to Congress.
In Maryland, though the Republicans ruled the
election machinery in Baltimore and all over the
State, Governor Swann's new police commissioners
having been arrested and put in gaol, whence even
a writ of habeas corpus failed to bring them till
after the election, the Democrats swept everything
clean, Legislature, members of Congress, and all,
showing great and unexpected gains, with still
greater losses for the Republicans, since the last
election. From the West, however, the reports
are " splendid." The Republicans gain largely in
Michigan, Illinois, and Missouri, and nearly sweep
the board in Kansas, Wisconsin, and Minnesota,
while the new State of Nevada brings up the rear
by electing Delos K. Ashley, Republican, to Con-
gress, with a Legislature of the same stripe, that
will send a Republican to the United States
Senate. Exactly how the choice for members of
Congress stands in all the 91 districts where elec-
tions were held on Tuesday, it is impossible to say,
but probably the Democrats have made a gain of
two, and get 26 in all. One hundred and fifty-one
members of the new House of Representatives are
now chosen, of which the Republicans have 115
and the Democrats 36, showing that the parties in
the next Congress will be divided very nearly the
same as at present. By the defection of Mary-
land the Republicans lose one Senator, as well as
several members of the house ; but this loss is off-
sett by the surety of a new Republican member
from New Jersey. Altogether the result of the
fall elections has been grand and hopeful in the
extreme. It is a great thing that the Republi-
cans have held their own in view of the
treachery in their own ranks, and the fresh hopes
and greater efforts of the Opposition in con-
sequence, and is altogether better than the
most sanguine dared to hope for three months in
consequence of the instruction and warning for both
President and Congress in the voice of the people
heard through the elections, as well as condemnation
of the former and approval for the latter, and both
will do well to heed the lesson it offers.--A second
election for members pf Congress in the third Ver-
mont district took place on Friday, and probably
Worthington C. Smith, of St. Albans, was elected
in place of Portus Baxter. The opposing candi-
dates were Asa 0. Aldis, of St. Albans, bolting
Republican, and Waldo Brigham, of Hyde-park,
Democrat.—Springfield Republican.
THE WOMEN MOVING.—The Equal Rights Asso-
ciation, which is the new name of the Woman's
Rights Association, will hold a convention at
Albany, New York, on the 20th and 21st, to "bury
the woman in the citizen," and to demand suffrage
for all citizens, without distinction of race or sex.
The meeting is specially designed to agitate for
"citizen suffrage" in this large sense, with reference
to the proposed revision of the constitution of the
State of New York. The venerable Quaker
preacher, Mrs. Lucretia Mott, is president of the
association, and Susan B. Anthony its secretary.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Theodore Tilton,
Frances D. Gage, Lucy Stone, and other women of
celebrity in reform movements, are expected to
speak at the convention, and it cannot fail to be a
very pleasant and entertaining affair. The ladies
deserve encouragement in their effort to give us
something to talk about now that the elections are
over.—An American Paper.