New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-04-10

INC c'oto CopIIdl, ana nall uoLch V'i''
Of quarrel. Like all new States and most old
ones), it is full Of people who want TO live easy ana
get rich fast, and who realize the practical adVan
tsge Of being on the side Of Patronage and Power
1t fairly swarms with desirable Federal oiiices'
while its prospective Railroads, Land-Grants, &C.
have already made great many mouths water
Had Walker and Stanton been sustained IN Kansas
as the President was every way pledged TO SUSTAIN
them, they had at least an even chance OF accom-
phshipg tie object of their mission, BY bringing
Kansas into the Union National Democratic
State, with L. S. Senator's aud Representative 70
match. The Lecompton Fraud and it, Presidential
backing have spoiled all this and rendered II highy
improbable that any conceivable degree OF folly on
the part of the Free-State men can now deprive
them of the ascendency in the organization oil the
new State
So at Washington A new National Adminstrs'
ton meets its first Congress, having IN either
House strong majority. 1t would seem lmpos'l-
bic to ALLEVIATE and destroy thst majority; yet Le-
compton has done it. The Executive is beaten,
not merely on Lecompton itself, but on the Army,
the Deficiency bill, and probably on other meas
ures now pending. Practically the Administration
has lost the control Of Congress though it opened
the Session with clear and strong majority In
either House. Can any man assign another reason
for this than the LecOmptOn bill
Coming next to the Elections:
Three States have chosen Governors, Leglsa.
lures, &C., since the President took ground against
Walker and Stanton and for the LecOmpton fraud
Two of them-New- Hampshire and Connecticut
were close and doubtful when Congress met; Rhode
Island vas Republican. but not strong! So Lee
compton has given each TO the Republicans, BY ma
jorites decidedly increased from last year-larger
than hss been cast for the Opposition at any State
Election for several years Ia the lesson hard to
read
In our own State, Township and Charter Elec-
tons have been very generally held at intervals
since Feb. J.; and those elections indicate two
general movements in the public mind |. A gen
ersl hostility to the Lecompton fraud 2. con-
centraton of the Opposition under the impulse OF
that hostility. There have been at least One Hun
dred more Republican Supervisors chosen this year
than last, while most of those elected as Ameri-
cans were chosen by Republican votes in the ex-
pectation and desire that the Opposition should act
and vote together next November. And not this
only: large proportion of the Democrats elected
are Douglas or anti-Lecompton men, avOwedly
such, and could not otherwise have been elected.
Their election therefore, affords no aid and com
fort to the Executive. Yet in this State the most
sy.tematc, earnest and successful efforts have been
made, by the rival factions who are struggling for
the receipt aud disposal of the Federal patron
age, to bind the party to the car of lecomPton.
Outside of this State, the evidences of repug
nance to the Lecompton policy are overw heming.
We speak not of such elections as those recently
held at Chicsgo and at Columbus (Ohio), where,
though the former went Republican" and the
latter was divided, both parties were hostile to Lee
compton, but of those where that matter was
prominently in issue Just look at the list OF re-
cent defeats which the Democratic party has en-
countered IN local elections:
In Ohio-CNCINNATI, Opposition by majorities
ranging from 1000 to $500; TOLEDO, Republican
by 1873 msjorty-last year, heavily Democratic.
In Miehigan-The Town Meetings show an al
most unbroken line of Republican triumPhs,
tnOugn tne DtfnOcIhlc parry tncTt Hds G'H'inh!
cut loose from and opposes LecOmptOn.
In Indiana-INDANAPOIJ recently went Repub-
lican by large majority; LAFAYETTE, ditto by 30
to 10 majority-usualy Democratic.
In Io,ca--DAvENPORT has gone largely Repub-
hcsn: DUBUQUE usually two or three to one Demo
cratic has elected Peoples Ticket t" over the
Democratic by some 500 majority.
In Mssouri-ST. LOUIS has chosen the straight
out Free Democracy's ticket by l,2O0 majority
over Peoples ticket headed BY an Eman :pation-
list, but made up and supported in good part BY
union of the various Pro- Slavery interests and fac
tons; while JEFFERSON CITY (the State captal)
has also chosen Frees officers throughout by
handsome msority. This is the first time dis
tnctive Emancipation ticket was ever run in that
city. FLORIsSANT, smaller city, is also reported
Free-State.
We ought, perhaps, to add that LOUISVILLE,
Ky., has lust chosen American officers with
very little opposition-their Representative, Hum
phrey Marshall, and their organ, The Louisville
Journal, heading the fight against Lecompton.
We give these merely as straws showing the
course of the wind but who finds any sNling the
other way The extent of a change wrought in the
public mind BY bad measure is never fully evinced
in the ensuing popular vote, especially if the contest
be for local officers alone. Thousands continue,
from habit discipline affection, to vote with their
old party 10 obige or advance personal friends who
are canddates-to obtain or retain al ofice-or
hoping to bring them over to their own views.
Where one votes plump against his party in a local
contest following quick upon the heels of a great