Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-10-21
Union Republican Nominations,
The Recent Elections.

The elections last week in Pennsylvania,
OHIO and Indiana have really ended the
Presidential campaign henceforth we have
',lt TO stretch out our hands and grasp the
ripe fruits Of victory. We have not vet
received the official figures, but enough is
known to make il certain that Pennsylvania
has given her state officers from 10 600 to
10000 Republican majority As a set off to
this splendid achievement two Congressman
are lost In Ohio the Republican majority
will be from Is 900 to 20 900 and several
congressman lost. though from the close
vote in some doubtful districts it is impossi-
bic to say exactly how many. The Repub-
iicans gam one, in place Of the political
what-is-it, Sam Cary
In Indiana the contest has been most ex-
citing. Hendricks, the idol of the Democ-
racy in his state, a statesman acknowledged
ability and Of great personal popularity
had been put forward as the candidate for
Governor, and despite the prestige he
brought down from former successful cam
paigns has been defeated by majority of
about 1000 The legislature, which is to
elect United States senator, is strongly
Republican.
Thus the great Democratic wave which
was 70 Overwhelm the Republican party with
its Congress and their acts of reconstruction
has broken and scattered. If its angry
surge at one time looked threatening, it has
now been dissipated in foam. Pennsylvania
he 5,Iax Of tt,o
u9erringlv to the result in November, and
the 90 lost cause y is again lost without hope
Of redemption. The certainty of the de-
cisive results which these elections will have
is well shown by the action of leading
Democratic newspapers.
The World astonished the country by cali
ing on its national committee TO haul down
the names Of Seymour and Blair and sub
stitute those Of some less objectionable lead
ers- 1t laborei zealously to find excuses for
not yielding to utter despair, and professed
unyiclding confidence in the indomitablt
Democracy 1t confessed that the position
assumed by Blair ION the reconstruction
question could not be maintained, and be-
Iieved that by * magnificent exercise OF
pluck " the Democrats might in the time
still left fight the battle out on a new line.
Other leading journals followed in the same
cry, and for time confusion reigned supreme
in the counsels of the unterrifed The sage
Of Utica and the blood thirsty Blair were
consulted, and for a while it seemed as though
all show Of opposition would be withdrawn.
Other cOunsels have prevailed, and the Dem
ocratIc party has CONCLUDED to 60 to destruc-
ton with the candidates it nominated in
July. They have seen that it would be
useless to claim that their errors were simply
minor The country has already declared
their platform unsound in principle, and nc
change can possibly avail them.
In every contest there are faint signs
analogous TO expressions of countenanct
which show to good observer which way
the tide Is turning. These reckless propO
sitions, this disagreement of those to whom
the party look for guidance cannot be mis-
taken. Their hesitating, backward step.
are marks of conscious defeat the party
has lost its cOmpOsure and the stout heart
for which the warlike Psalmist prayed i,
denied them
They have lost their discipline and the
power of their leaders is neutralized the
no longer have the party in their grasp ant
its ranks are confusion and dismay.