The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1869-12-04
The Years Elections.

AN0 AOLtS 3 oAVVVASAOs
We copy as follows from the
New York Leader of the 18th ::
We believe that it is a fact, says(
the, New Heaven Register, that
for the past forty years no parry
which has been defeated in the|
Presidential election has recover
ed from it's defeat in time to sue
cessfully contest the next fail
elections. The party which elects
a President generally has pretty
fair sailing for one year at least.
The President does not enter
upon his duties till the following
March. New Hampshire holds
it's election in March, just after
the President is inaugurated.--
Connecticut follows in April,
Tennessee in August (only five
months after the inauguration),
California in September, and the
Middle and Western States in
October and November. The
President does not have time to
aleniate many friends, and the
enthusiasm of the victors usually
takes them through without diff
Guilty.
This year has been a partial
exception to the rule. A month
after Grants Inauguration the
Democrats came within a few
hundred of carrying Connecticut.
Next came Virginia. The con-
test was between Wells, Radical,
and, walker, Conservative. The
administration saw fit to throw
it's influence in favor of the form
Ter, and still he was defeated by
twenty thousand majority. The
fruits of this victory, ina nation
al sense, were the election of two
Conservative Senators and the
defeat of the Radical scheme to
ldisfranchise the people of the
South. Then came the election
! in Tennessee. That State had
given Grant over thirty thousand
in November, 1868. Grants adj
ministration took an active part
in the canvass, but the result was
an overwhelming defeat of the
party that carried the State the
previous year. The victory was
complete, securing a Democratic
Senator in place Of Mr.. Fowler,
and giving the Democrats. full
control of the State. .-,~
California gave Grant a major
!ity of over five hundred in 1868,
and 1869 gave a.Democratic ma
jority of over ten thousand. LII
the vote were to be taken to-day
between Grant and Seymour, the
former would be defeated by|
thousands. The State is now as
certainly Democratic as in 1860.
Here we have two States which,
have changed their verdict within
the year.
The October elections disap-i
pointed both parties. The Re-
pa1blicans were certain of victory,
and the Democrats hopeful. The
former carried Pennsylvania and
Ohio, but they had nothing to|
spare. Their majority in Penn
sylvanis was less than five thou
sand, and only 1900 in Ohio. And
these two States had given Grant
a majority of about seventy thou
sand only eleven months before.
The only changes produced by
the November elections were in
favor of the Democrats. The
Republicans carried. NIassachu-
sets, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
as they have done at every cleo
ton for the past ten years, and
the Democrats carried New York,
New Jersey and Maryland. The
gain in both the Re-
publican and Democratic States
The Legislature of New York is
Democratic in both branches for
the first time since 1864. The
returns from Illinois are not com
plete enough to make it certain
which side will have the majority.
These results have been accom-
plished in one year. If there is
in them to afford en-
to the party which
Gen. Grant in 1860 it'll
has escaped our observation. The
real contest will be in 1870.
~ The protracted meetingi
last Monday EVENING"
under the Rev. G. r. Evans hav-t
l.