The New York herald., 1871-10-12


many tho Dead Weight to tho Demo-
cratic Party.
The Pennsylvania and Ohio State elections
have been carried by the republicans by
increased majorities. A glance at the returns
which we publish this morning will satisfy the
intelligent reader as to the general results in
Pennsylvania and Ohio, and that there are
two points in the explanation Of these results
upon which there can be no mistake. The
hrst is that upon the platform of their national
administration, and under the broad ensign of
General Grant as their Presidential candidate
against all comers, the republicans are waxing
stronger and stronger; and the second point
is that the democratic party, East and West,
Is becoming weaker and weaker under the
dead weight of the astounding denominations Of
Tammany Hall.
This is the true explanation of these Octo-
Der elections, and these are the causes which
have operated and are operating over the
length and breadth Of the land to harmonize
and strengthen the republicans and to demor-
alize and weaken the democracy. Other
questions, local and personal, have here and
there had some effect; but the universal and
overwhelming drawback to the demo-
Gratis has been the odious fnan-
ciering of Tammany, as the central
| embodiment in s'the Columbian Order" of
the democratic party, democratic principles
and democratic aspirations. Hence we find
the late republican minority of five thousand
in Philadelphia changed to majority Of eight
thousand, and late majority of one thousand
in Cincinnati enlarged to two thousand, in
spite of disturbing local side issues and
mongrel third parties. An intelligent OBJ
server in Wall street remarked In our hearing
on Tuesday last that elf these elections in
Pennsylvania and Ohio go for the democrats
upon the heels of these Tammany disclosures
and this Chicago fire we shall have finan-
cal panic and revulsion, because the conf
dence of banks, capitalists and all dealers in
money in the public faith and credit will be
sapped, and reputation will stare them in
the face, as the inevitable consequence of
the popular endorsement Of the gigantic cor
ruptions of the Tammany Ring" This is
the idea which eoYers the popular verdict in
! these October elections. While the honest
voter has been attracted to the republican
ticket by the acceptable record of the present
administration of our national government
he has been repelled from the support of the
democratic party, in many cases, by the
scandalous record of the Tammany admins
tration of our municipal affairs What a
change has come over Tammany and the
democratic party since the ''ides of march,"
The March election in New Hampshire had
inspired the party North, South, East and
West with the delightful but delusve idea that
this Granite State" democratic victory, this
radical fash in the pan was the beginning of
political revolution, destined to carry every
| thing before it right on to the close of the
Presidential contest of 1872; but unfortu-
nately, JEFF Davis, ''down in Alabama" Join
| ing in these democratic rejoicings, interpreted
the results in New Hampshire as opening the
way to the final triumph of the 'slost cause"
with the overthrow Of the whole Congressional
system Of Southern reconstruction. This, to
the old Union party of the war, was like the
roll of the drum, calling ''the boys in blue"
again to the front, and SO, in the April Con-
necticut election, the tables were turned, and
so emphatically that the Northern democratic
leaders were convinced that it was worse than |
useless to fight or question any longer the |
issues Of the war settled in the new amend
ments to the constitution. The ''new depar-
ture," then initiated by Mr.. Vallandigham in
Ohio, was rapidly adopted by the democratic |
conventions Of the North, from State to State
but i came too late 70 be Of any service to the
party for 1871 or 1872. > Pr: e. - -
The July riot in our streets, In conse-
''the Boyne Water, and the question of equal
rights raised by our local authorities in refer
ence to that procession, created throughout
the country a strong excitement against the
daring assumptions of Tammany Hall, which
was by the republicans promptly used to the
prejudice of the democratic party. At the
same time this terrible war upon the official
corruptions and spoliations of the Tammany
'Ring" was opened, and the effect upon the
public mind Of the country was made mani
fest-frst, in the August elections in North
Carolina and Kentucky to some extent, but
with uumistakable emphasis in the September
elections in Maine and California. These
elections distinctly made the facts known to
the democratic party Of the Union chat, while
its ''new departure" had given it no strength,
the bad name Of Tammany had weakened and
demoralized the rank and fle East and
West. So it was that, after the popular ver-
dict of September from Maine and California
in favor of the republican party as repre- |
sented in the national administration of General |
Grant, and against the democratic party as
represented in the local administration Of |
Tammany, it came to be, the general belief |