Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-08-24
OUR AUGUST

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The victories, of August have thrown
a bright halo of glory and promise AROUND
the Republican banner. Montana, bloom
ing into the pride and distinction of State
hood, sends a Republican Representative
to Congress, with the high endorsement o.
a majority of 1900. This is a clean gair
of thirty-fve hundred, as two years ago a
Democrat was chosen by a majority of q
thousand. The settlement of intelligent,
honest and industrious immigrants, bring
ing with them the moral and civilizing in
t~uences of the school, church, law court,
the railroad, telegraph and printing press,
has wrought this amazing revolution.
Kentucky, renowned for her obdurate,
unyieldirg and copper-distilled democra-
| cy, has deepened the brilliancy of our
colors with an unexpected glow, polling a
heavier vote than ever before and a larger
portion of it Republican. The Republi-
can triumphs in such counties as Fayette.
Jessamine, Christian and Logan, and in
the principal cities like Lexington. the
home and burial-place of the immortal
Clay, Paducah, Frankfort, Paris. Bowling
Green, Hopkinsvillc and Henderson, de
velope the naked and undeniable fact,
that the Republicans are gaining a solid
and permanent power, with a rapidity
that promises an early occupation of the
government of that State. The fact is
disagreeably significant to the Democracy,
that whilst they cast a far heavier vote
than last year, their majority has dwindled
into an alarming slimness of a few thou
sand, compared with their former tri-
umphs. All this happens whilst they have
of every poll-book, and "lord it"
over the Colored element and thousands
Of Whites with their landlord power, re-
straining them from voting or compelling
them to a suffrage against their c~ouvic-
lions. AL things considered, the Repub-
leans have conquered a brilliant result in
Democracy-cursed Kentucky.
But to the proud and noble "Old
North State" we turn to behold the utter
out and inextricable confusion of the
Democracy. Last year their majority was
1000, and this year they deplore a loss of
800. They had impeached Holden, the
radical Governor. They had the Legis- 1
and the supreme control of the '
tate. The Republicans had to carry the
dunn of Holden's administration with all !
S grevious blunders and its ~marauding,
lundering militia. A Constitution framed v
y Radicals. and e~mbodying the hated d
!easures of reconstruction was to be torn o
to atoms. A Republican Judiciary was G.
be driven from the Courts and Demo- Il
attic supremacy was to be installed IN all b
apartments of the government. The peo- IL
e were appealed to, all the horrors of the
'uation were fully depicted and all the al
and advantages Of a change st
src deliberately set forth. But to the d.
lazement and CONSERVATION of the Demo- CT
ltic politicians they anwered, No. This SIT
defeat cannot be charged to the hr
arpet-baggers'' and "niggers." There tn
, hardly a thousand white voters of te
birth in the State. The Repub- pr
an majorities are as heavy in proportion su
the population in the counties, where tn
White vote largely predominates, as
the counties of the interior and sea- thu
lrd. At least 10000 white votes, ina an
g and to the manor horn, are m be the
nted in the majority.
The dazzle of the Republican triumphs
this August almost equals the blaze of eel
suns, and are a sure indication of what Mr.
be. in