The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-17
The Defeat of the Democracv.

AT the late election New England cast solid
electoral vote for Grant by unprecedented ma
jorities. In former times, before the party
had become the slave of slavery and the vassal
of rebellion, it could count confidently on the
support of Maine and New Hampshire, and in
more recent contests it has carried Connecti-
cut, when its behavior was not unusually out
rageous. But against Seymour and Blair and
the new rebellion platform New England gives
an aggregate majority of more than 153, 900,
and the States classed as doubtful in the early
stages of the campaign have proved as reliable
as Massachusetts or Vermont. New York and
New Jersey are the only Northern States car
ried by Seymour and Blair. They were
wrested from their true position by the
most gigantic naturalization frauds that have
disgraced the century. Theinterior of New York
rolled up tremendous Republican majoritiss.
The Republicans Of INew York city also polled
an immense vote for Grant. But Tammany was
determined to carry the State. The key of the
Democratic canvass consisted in the accuracy
of its calculations, for its unscrupulous leaders
had at hand all the facilities for manufacturing
a sufficient number of illegal voters to ooun'
terbalance the Republican suffrages Of the
country districts. In New jersey similar
agencies were freely employed, especially in
her cities bordering on New York. Pennsyl-
vania rolled up for Grant and Colfax the
largest clear majority she has given in any
Presidential contest since the days of General
Jackson. The significance Of this action is
increased by the potent power of the electoral
vote of this State, and by the desperate efforts
made by the Democracy to secure it. The nine
Western States Of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas,
and Nebraska give an aggregate majority Of
2S5, 900 for Grant, and Seymour and Blair did
not receive from them single electoral vote.
These States formerly gave at many elections
large Democratic msjorities; but their attach
ment to Republicanism seems to increase
with the growth of their population. After
the next census they will gain an additional
number of Congressman and Senators, and
their influence will become more powerful
than ever. On the Pacific coast, California,
Oregon, and Nevada, all claimed by the De-
mocracy, have all voted for the Republican
nominees; and the Democratic hope of gaining
a foothold in the young mining States has
thus been blighted. With Democracy stamped
out in New England, overwhelmed in Penn
sylvania, triumphant in New York and New
Jersey only by the aid of transparent frauds,
routed in every Western State, and
defeated in the Pacific eommonwealths, it
stands utterly condemned everywhere except
in the rebellious South. 1t carried the Border
States of Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware,
because, while they contain an immense num-
Der of voters who aided the Rebellion, their
SeCessionists were not powerful enough to
secure the passage of Secession ordinances, or
to place their States in such direct and open
position of antagonism to the Union as would
have neoessitated and justified their recon
struotion on loyal basis. OF the other
Southern States the Republicans carried for
Grant West Virginia, Tennessee, North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, and
Arkansas; leaving to the Democracy, as fruits
of fraud and force, Georgia and Louisiana.
Even after Texas, Mississippi, and Virginia
are readmitted, II fair elections are secured,
the Democracy can scarcely hope to obtain
half the votes polled within the limits of the
exploded Southern Confederacy. In view of
their signal overthrow, 1t is scarcely wonder
full that some of their leaders seriOusly 00p-