The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-09
GreltiMa Telearaph
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1870.
THE ELECTIONS.


The elections yesterday exhibit series of
oheckered results, large Republican gains
having been effected in some quarters and
Democratic gains in others. Most of the
former are attributable to the enfranchise-
ment of the colored voters, but in some
localities other causes diminished the Demo-
cratic vote, and the result, as whole, is de-
cidedly favorable to the Republican party.
Its continued ascendancy in the National
House of Representatives is assured, even
if all the States yet to elect should
send solid Democratic delegations. The
Republican majority will not be less than 90,
and, giving the Democrats the benefit of all
doubts, it will probably be So, SO that the
Republicans have won decisive triumph in
the great political contest of the year. There
will nevertheless be reduction in the Re-
publican majority of 45 in the Forty-second
Congress as compared with the Forty first;
and the Democrats, though sadly disap-
pointed, can console themselves with the re-
Election that they have destroyed the ascend
ancy of two-thirds which has SO long been
maintained, and cut down the Republican ma.
jority nearly one-half.
The most brilliant Republican triumph has
been won in New Jersey. We scarcely know
whether we are to attribute this gratifying
result to the patronage lavished upon that
State, to the Presidential sol ournings at Long
Branch, to the enfranchisement of colored
voters, Democratic divisions, or to superior
Republican management, but at all events
New Jersey has been redeemed.
In New York city large diminution of the
Democratic majority has been effected by the
prevention of fraud, but it still reaches the
imposing figure of 50,000 and the light vote
in the rural districts, which was probably due,
in large degree, to the iealousies of jarring
Republican factions, and the unavailability
of the Republican candidate for Governor,
have secured the reelection of Hoffman, the
Republican gains in the city being counter
balanced by Republican losses in the interior.
In Massachusetts, the regular Republican
tickets have received more votes than last
year, despite the erratic performances of
Wendell Phillips; and the Gubernatorial aspi-
rations of that shining light of modern De-
mocracy, John Quincy Adams, are received
with as little favor as in former contests.
Little Delaware still belongs to the Sauls-
burys who have extended their lease of
power by keeping hundreds of colored voters
away from the polls. There is good deal of
reconstructing still necessary in the lower
counties of the Blue Hens Chickens, and if
they do not speedily mend their manners
few of the Republican townships in Ian
caster county should take them in hand, and
teach the brutal barbarians who resort to
mob violence on election day that this is the
nineteenth century, and that all America is
now land of liberty
In Louisiana, and especially in New
Orleans, large Republican gains are reported.
Seven companies of regulars, with two Cat
ling guns, secured peace and order in the
Southern metropolis, and the honest mon of
both parties rejoice in the fact that not a
single act of violence is reported.
Even in benighted Kentucky few faint
streaks of light begin to dawn. Heavy
Democratic losses are reported, and it is pos
sible that the Republicans have elected one
or two congressman.