The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-14
OPINIONS or THE PRESS.

OPINLONS OF lille PRESS,
We make the following editorial extracts
from the New York papers of to-day
The "Tribune,"
under the caption, "The Five Forks of 1885,"
it was universally felt, and virtually con-
must triumph In the State elections held yester-
day or abandon all hope OF success. Every
she esxs net 9 mags States @ the
vania, Indiana, and Nebraska as certainly, and
Ohio as probably, for Seymour. The most In
genious among them could not make up a list
of Estates expected to vote for Seymour sufiicient
TO elect him without including all or most of
those above-named. They had thus advertised
their followers that they must carry those States
in October or confess themselves already beaten
in the November struggle.
times jmpelled them to superhuman efforts.
They fabricated bogus naturalization eertif.
repeaters in regiments; they poured out their
money Without stint, and organized fraud
prisons To- WIN
they spared no effort and left no trick untried
whereby ~ they could 6n0pe to d,asy the jHdg
cheated us more than ten Thousand votes in
Philadelphia and Its neighborhood alone. we
But they cheated in vain. Their judicial null
LITIGATION of the Registry act. their manufacture
their Importation OF bIacklegs and DULLES, their
conspiracies and rascalities, have all availed
them nothing. magnificent day and despe-
rate struggle brought out by far the largest vote
ever poIled in the State. with q result that
shows her for Grant beyond contingency. His
now, but il viii be more than twenty Thousand
In November. We have probably two thirds of
the Represefnta1ives f IN Congress-, With both
lican States Senator for six years ensuing.
in place Of Charles. r. Buckalew, Democrat.
Nobly done, gallant old Keystone!
Ohio we have at no time doubted, though
certain injudicious nominations exposed US TO
(hoiding s over % rom last Year, is Democratic in
either branch, as 1t would not begin to be II
,ns s sns Allen ~ e ss, T
gone Republican by at least twenty thousand
cans CANS TO TO- the next House. tFhe Republicans
chose General r. B. Hayes her Governor last
3 as s" Ses s a
year; Grant will walk over the course,
nous naturalizations and heavy importations
from Kentucky. Despite the sanguine adyices
Of our correspondence; we apprehend disas-
threatened to swamp our state ticket, though
we confidently expected to carry the Legisla.
Thomas A. Hendricks, Dem.) and a majority
OF the REPRESENTATIVES In Congress. Vague
riu%ph enough %e pres9me by
small aggregate majority.
The s'IeraId',
says, under the head "The Question Settled:"-
The results of the State elections yesterday
clearly indicate the election Of General Grant
as our next President by an overwhelming
majority Of the popular and electoral vote Of
the Union. The Democrats. early in the cam
vass, n1ing the popular current in Ohio and
Indiana setting In heavily against them, con-
centaated tner avaspIe srv s sJrengsh upon penn
could save Pennsylvania in october theirs was
"the lost cause" They have made, therefore,
State since the october election of 1885, when
they carried It by two thousand majority, and
October contest, however. their delusive
State majority Of nine hundred of last year is
buried under the Republican reserves beyond
all hope of q resurrection for at least year to
come; and las goes Pennsylvania 80 goes the
We say that this loss of Pennsylvania, with.
out going further, Is the deathblow to Seymour
and Blair. But apart from this ticket the De-
mocracy were impelled by another necessity to
They knew that the loss of Pennsylvania in
October would. in all probability, involve the
impulse that would be given to the cause of
Grant and from the general depression which
the New York Democratic managers the
paramount object was and ls to save
this State In view OF the influence Of Zen. and power
these New Workers will be able to WELD In
shaping the battle OF 1872, no matter what may
tion in his favor in Tammany Hall was that
his name would carry New York, and that in
have a solid foundation to build upon for 1872.
Now. with their loss OF Pennsylvania, there Is
every reason to believe that the forty seven
state last year will disappear In November like
morning fog from the face of the sea.
The "Times."
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana yes
terday virtually ended the Presidential contest.
The Republicans swept all three States, and by
no equivocal msjorittes. This splendid civil
| his brilliant military achievements The over
throw Of the Democracy Is as disastrous to their
hopes as the surrender OF Lee to the 'lost cause"
OF the Confederacy. 1t Is fortunate for the quiet
of the country that these October results are so
| conclusive as to relieve the f1nal trial In No
vember OF the painful anxteties ana maddenlng
excitements which would have followed q less
decided verdict from the Important and com-
handing States which yesterday declared for
| General Grant and the Republican party.
| advices as to popular maJorities and the cleo
| tion of CoDgressmen. In Pennsylvania the
| majority win reach $4,000, perhaps l7.000 In
| attempt to number II. In Indiana the Republi-
| can Governor, Baker. Is re elected over Hem
bricks by from 5000 to 10000 majority.
| The "wOrId.D
| At the hour OF writing, A. M, the returns
which we have received from Pennsylvania,
Indiana, and Ohio are so meagre and 80 con-
nearly impossible.
| It seems clear that the Democrats have gained
aCongressman In nearly every one OF Lne snarply
contested districts where Victory was thougnt
| by our friends to be possible. s.,
| 'As To the general result In the states named,
| we cannot indulke the hope, IL would appear,
| would nave made the result OF the election In
Novamber o foregone conclusion.
II is certain that the Democracy OF the North,
| II they would redeem tho Republic, must Keep
| their arIn0r on, and know no rest or wearlness
| in their labors till the night OF November 3.
Victory hoyers still above tne contepding