Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-10-20

in November. Considering how stationary
politics stood IN Vermont, and how feeble
was the movement in Maine, and compar.
ing these with the immense reduction of tho
Republican majority in Ohio, 10 candidmap
can fail TO recognize the operation of causes
which, SO far from having spent their force,
are in the very prime of their activity.
The tens of thousands of citizens who have
fofsak ken the Republican party in the re
cent elections, herald the accession to the
Democratic party of hundreds of thousands
more. Men of sense and reflection natur-
ally hesitate before changing their politics;
partly from pride, partly from distrust of
their own Judgment which, having decciv-
cd them in their previous choice of sides,
is relied on with less confidence now. But
when they see that such multitudcs of citi-
zens in Pennsylvania and Ohio have over
come this natural reluctance to change,
they will feel more confidence in an opinion
which they find to be so largely shared by
others, and will yield their pride to their
convictions. This class of minds made no
stir toward change till they saw that the
Democratic party had nominated a good
Union man and patriot which accounts
for the immense progress since the Septem-
Der elections. This progress cannot stop
here Its causes are in full operation. and
changes from the Republican to the Demo-
cratic ranks arc now seen to be so numer-
Gus as to merge individual singularity in u
general movement
| During the month which has interviewed
since the Democratic nominations, the ad-
mnistration party have had every adyan.
tage they can count on during the ensuing
month and some that cannot be repeated,
Within this time they have healed The di-
visions in their party aud closed up its
ranks. Fremont has withdrawn; Chase,
Wade, Davis, Greeley, and other dissent
tents have given in their adhesion to Mr.
Lincoln. The internal unity of the Repub-
lican party cannot be any greater than it
had become previous to the late elections
This ingatherng and consolidation of it's
forces did not suffice to arrest the trium-
phant advance of the Democracy consequent
on General Mcclellan nomination.
The shoddy and contracting interests have
been rs active IN these state elections as they
are capable of becoming. They have been
more efficient than they can be in the presi-
dental election, by the greater concentra-
tion which is possible in a narrow field
The administration comprehended the i'm
portance of holding their own in Pcnnsyl-
vania, and all the efforts that the sense of
peril could suggest or shoddy could pay for,
have been made. But in the presidential
battle these powerful batteries cannot so
concentrate their fire. Our triumph is in
sured by the fact that, with all this effort
and concentration, the administration could
not hold its own. In spite of it all, the
Republican party has lost ground, and lost
the state
The Republicans have set up false and
foolish pretense that the success of our ar
mics is injurious to the Democratic party.
They have pcrsistcntly striven to turn the
victories of our soldiers into eectioneering
capital Judging them by their own pre-
lenses, they have had, in this respect, a
most extraordinary run of luck since the
Chicago nominations. But what have these
electioncerng prctenscs availed them?
Have they added to the strength of Mr..
Liucoln? Corning before the elections. have
these splendid victories increased the Re
) publican vote? No; it has fallen off i'm
mensely, i'll spite of the n4ost colossal eft.
forts made, according to their own repre-
scntati0ns, under the most favorable cir
cumstanccs possible. But if, with all their
strenuous concentration, and the splendid
succession of victories which they filchcd as
party capital, they could not save Pennsyl-
vania, it is in vain for them to attempt to
stem the current i'll November, when tire
field ofoppcrations will be so'much enlarged,
} and the extraordinary personal popularity
Of the Democratic candidate will come more
Immediately into play and Operate so di-
r rcctly on the result --NeW York World.