Arizona citizen., 1872-11-16
THE LATE ELECTIONS.
Local and National.


 CITIZEN. Not single disturbance is reported at any of the polling places. Wordy contests and solicitations marked the day in some precincts, but all were moderate.
 The figures given show the exact vote in each precinct for the several candidates. Hiram s. Stevens, Mark Aldrich, Levi Ruggles and Juan Elias are elected to the upper, and John B. Allen, William c. Davis, J. W. Sweeney, Frank M. Larkin, L. M. Jacobs, John T. Smith, J. s. Vosburg, and John Montgomery to the lower house of the Legislative Assembly.
 William s. Oury is elected Sheriff Augustus Brichta, Recorder; A. c. Benedict, Treasurer l.. c. Hughes, District Attorney; Surveyor, John L. Harris; Public Administrator, Solo mon Warner.
 Larkin W. Carr, E. N. Fish and R. Pacheco were elected County Su- pervisors.
 Lewis c. Hughes declined to run for District Attorney the week before the election, and John L. Harris was nominated for Surveyor without his knowledge and will not qualify there for. Solomon Warner was not at any time candidate for Supervisor, and the week prior to the election, P. R. Fully and William Zeckendorf with drew their names for Supervisor. John Miller was not a candidate for District Attorney. These facts should be regarded in judging the result.
 As in all elections, in this there were unexpected results, but men who can not accept defeat with philosophy would enjoy life moro tranquilly by not seeking office. Wounds received in election battles are always more painful in fancy than fact, and in this free nation, they usually heal without becoming contagious. The pictures drawn in advance of the ca lamity that will follow the election of this or that man, rarely appear as originally described, and if they do now and then, the delinquent officers, as rule, pay the heaviest penalties. As was clear to every candid and sagacious observer of the national contest at the time of the nominations at Philadelphia and Baltimore, Presi- dent Grant is reelected by the largest majority of any candidate since Pierce in 1852. The elements of his opposi- tion were not drawn together upon any principles worthy of public in- dorsement; but on the contrary both of its main branches abandoned their own cherished doctrines for which they had many years begged public approval, and all for the avowed pur- pose of winning victory over man they could not control.
 The masses saw at once the motives of the opposition and apprehended bad results from it's success, and con- demned it by majority almost with out parallel. It is foolish and absurd to extol our grand system of popular government whereby the people them selves change or re-elect their chief rulers once in four years, and then deplore the late national result, which will in the strictest popular sense show majority of over 60O,00O for Grant and Wilson. With thousands of journals presenting every phase of the issues, and all objections to the several candidates, supplemented as they were with millions of documents, speeches, &c., no man of tolerab ble req son will deny that the people were fully acquainted with the interests at stake, and cast their ballots accord