The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-11-24

this grand gate in the Alleghanles between
the East and the West is altogether prac'
ticable and easy undertaking, and the GOV
eminent should not hesitate TO ORDER III
immediate construction.
The Tariff and Revenue Reformcrs-
How the Two Parties Wsll Stand In
abe Next Congress. ....
THE New York Post IA Republican jour-
nal, but a strong advocate Of revenue re-
form,l argues that the protectionlsts "
have been signalIy defeated in the elections
for members of the next United States
House OF Representatives. AS matter OF
general interest to men of all parties, we
COPY its remarks and conclusions
According to our count, the revenue re.
formers will have in the next House l22
votes, the protectionists will have 10 votes,
and there are IS members whose opinions
we do not know well enough to designate
them. Of these, however, it is probable
that at least as many will vote for revenue
reform as for protection. There is no doubt
that the House, when it divides on the
question, will show a handsome majority
for reyenue reform.
How has this been accomplished? Sho TT
" after the Indiana election, in October,
Vice-President Colfax made public what
he believed to be the causes of the defeat
of the Republicans there. he showed, by
a curious array of figures, that the Repub-
licans were beaten first, because many Re
publican voters stay away from the polls
second, because sit was positive year OF
ooSs r.f
well as of not voting tickets at all" As
examples, he showed that in seven districts
Republican candidates for the Legislature
were beaten, while the Republican State
ticket had O majority in them all. The
oply Congressional district where, by Re-
pnblicans disaffection Congressman was
lost, the Republican State ticket has ma
jority." -
Now ticketsplitting probably appears to
MIR. ColfaX the gravest OF political crimes,
though to others it is one of the best signs
that the American citizen thinks for him.
self, and is not mere machine. 1t is the
discrimination exercised by voters, and
mostly by Republican voters, which has
put q majority Of revenue retormers into the
next Congress. The EUentng Post during
the summer faithfully warned the Republl-
can politicians that if they wished success
they must not nominate monopollsts, or
land-grabbers, or men of bad character
that their only way to success was to take
I'D civil service aud revenue reform, and
nominate their best men. The result has
shown the wisdom of this warning. In al.
most every instance in which civil service
and revenue reformer was nominated by
the Republicans, he was elected by the PEG.
pie but in multitude of eases, where
thew nominated protectionists and hack
politicians, they were beaten.
We have before called attention to the
peoples verdict in the October elections
upon some of the monopolsts. No less
shan six of the Pennsylvanians who voted
to keep up the high price OF salt, steel, ano
coal were rejected in caucus or at the pols
Dennis Mccarthy, Martin Welker, ane
Ehakim II. Moore, were summary re
iected by their party. schenck, ONelli
Morrell. Donley, Cessna, Stewart, Arm
strong, Gilfillan, the most pronounced mo
| noDolists. were defeated at the polls in dis
triets which before uniformly supported
the party. In several districts where reVe
lnue ,relormers had been nominated-fo
example the 1st, I'd, 7th, and 14th Ohio
Handsome gains were made.
| The November elections present simila
results. .-
| In the first Alabama district Buck, one o
the most intense monopolists, is left a
home, and Norris, another, is defeated b,
a Democrat in the third district. In tn
sixth Michigan district Strickland, who ha
was detealed in the Convention by briggs
: who was in turn defeated at the polls by
. revenue reform Democrat. The devotion
. of Gen. Paine to monopoly has given tn
| first Wisconsin district to the Democrats
who elected Alexander Mitchell, goot
man, by over 1900 majority. The first Wiz
Iginia district has been lost in the same way
, Brown and Hoge were defeated in Soutl
Carolina. No less than five pronounced
protectionists lost their districts in Tennes
, see, while Butler and Maynard were nomi
mated and elected, with greatly,reduce,
majorities, only by the corrupt Use of pewe
in two of the strongest Republican district
in the country. ......- .... .,.
Il Of special significance was the result il
Arkansas and West Virginia. The first an,
third districts of Arkansas are represente,
!, by Roots and Boles, two of the worst mo
nopolists in the House. They have bot
: been defeated-the former by majority G
2 nearly 1000. On the contrary, in the sec
ond district Of Arkansas the Republican
I nominated liberal man, and the peepl
!. elected him, although the district gave
: large Democratic majority in 1868.
West Virginia is now represented b
S three monopolists, who were elected b
8 large majorities. In the next Congress tn
| first and third districts viii be Representa-
by Democrats, while McGrew's majority i
$ the second district is reduced from $3.50 t
: less than 900. s-,s.z-. - h. .....
In the eighth Illinois district direct issu
was made on the tariff, and the Democrat
candidate, James e.. Robinson, spoke j
4 almost every town in favor OF revenue rt
form. He overcome the very large Reput
RI Iican majolity Of. two years ago, and wa
;. elected on that question. On the othe
hand, the Republicans of the second Mir
nesota district gained member Of Coz
tlgress by placing General AVerill on
straight revenue reform platform.
Throughout the whole&list of Congress
linen, we can only discover two monopolil
aains-that of III. e. Ravens, In the fourt
Missouri district, and that Of Charles I
Farwell,a member of the Chicago city rinl
who supersedes Mr. Judd in the first lllino
idistrict, while the monopolists losses nun
her more than forty. For, in addition t
those already enumerated, in many district
lwhere there was likely to be contest, th
ERepy1blicans were wise enough to take ne'
lmen--in this way Congress has got rid {
Ferris, Knapp, Latin, Chuscnm hets .s
fHotchkiss, Fisher, and sheldon, IN IN
State, who all voted for almost every mel
sure OF protection. 4,
The result of the canvass, ASIDE from u
d Yictory Of revenue reform and civil service
is that the Republicans have lost thirty Oh