The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-11-11

10 the course of an article in which it is
claimed that New York is as certainly Repub
lican on a fair vote as are Maine, Massachu-
sets and Ohio, the Times states the principal
cause of the defeat of the party in that State.
1t says
We have no disposition to claim the con-
quest over Tammany Hall as partisan vic
tory, albeit the leading Democratic papers of
the country were only n few mouths ago boast
ing of tlsat rotten concern as being the hope
and PRIDE OF the unterrfied Democracy of the
nation. The destruction of Tammany is due
to that instructive hatred of thieves, and that
natural dislike to being robbed and plunderei,
which is common to honest men of all parties.
But the election last Tuesday was something
more than victory over Tammany. 1t was
victory over the Democratic Party OF the State
which for two years past has maintained its as
tendency through frauds upon the ballot per-
petrated by this very Tammany organization.
An examiDation of the vote in this city will
show that the Republican State ticket, which
is elected by majority OF not less than ten
thousand, received no aid from the uprisipes of
the people here against the Tammany thieves.
The regular Democratic State ticket received
within 4 600 as many votes in this city as Hoff-
man received for Governor last year. and 600
more than the same ticket received in 1869,
when, as now, no candidate for Governor was
running. The large increase in the Republi-
can vote in this city-from 81, 39l last year, to
"a, 119 this-is evidently owing, therefore, net
to accesSiOns from the Democratic Party but
to the fact that thousands of our citizens who
have not been in the habit of going near the
polls in years past were induced TO come out
this year and vote. 1t is safe to say that nine
ty per cent. OF this class of citizens are Repub
licaus, and wheneve they vote at ALL vote the
Republican ticket. One of the principal rea-
sons for their neglect of duty heretofore has
been the uncertainty that their votes would be
honestly counted. An extraordinary emergen-
| cy having brought them to the polls fact
| which everybody suspected before, has now be-
| come Avident-that the city of New York is
not so hopelessly and overwhelmingly Demo-
| cratic as is generally supposed: 1t is doubtful
whether on full vote and fair count, the
| Democratic party would have over twenty
| tn ousand majority in this city. 1t certainly
could not roll up any such majorites as it has
| during the last TWO or three years, and which
| have been the sole means through which it has
retained power in the State. The uniform
| gains to the Republican ticket 10 the couutry
| districts prove the same thing. For years past
thousands OF rural Republicans have kept away
| from the polls because they knew it would b.
useless to contend against the fraudulent ma
| iorities in this city, by which the Tammany
| thieves managed to swamp the State. Finding
| that TammaDy was net going to have every.
| thing its own way this year, they were induced
| to go TO the polls, and the result is seen in al
increase of the Republican vote in almost ev
| cry district IN the State.