The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-09-10

Grant.
The result of the Maine election has verified
our prediction of yesterday. The State has
declared for the republican candidates by one
| of its accustomed majorities, and has united
with Vermont in testifying that the liberal Sc
cession from the republican ranks has not
affected the strength of the party in the New
England States in any perceptible degree In
| 1868, in the State election Immediately pre-
ceding the Presidential vote, the republican
majority in Maine was twenty thousand four
hundred, and upon this foundation a majority
of twenty-eight thousand was built up
for General Grant This year it is
estimated that the majority for the
republican Governor in yesterdays vote
has reached about fifteen thousand, and
this of course secures the seven electoral
votes of the State again for the republican
President. The verdict is the more significant
since the case was argued with considerable
force and earnestness by the counsel for the
losing side, and lively hopes were excited of
q more favorable finding. Added to the un-
questionable depression recently evident in
the liberal cause and to the apparent
lukewarmness of the democracy in the cam
paign, this new triumph of the administration
cannot fail to exercise considerable effect upon
the more important trials about to
take place in Indiana, Pennsylvania
and other States. It has been claimed
by the liberals that the great revolution prom
Used by them in the republican party was not
to show itself in the preliminary State contests,
or at least that nothing would be seen Of it
called upon to speak in October; but this
position has been virtually relinquished by the
| vigorous efforts made to break down the re-
publican majorities in North Carolina, Yer
mont and Maine, and it will not do for the
liberals, now that they have failed in two out
of three of these cases, to put in the plea that
they are, after all, Of no consequences and can
have no effect one way or the other on the
Presidential question. The elections in YER
mont and Maine must be accepted for what
they are worth, and, as we have said, unlike
North Carolina, they indicate that the liberals
have not succeeded in shaking the republican
strength, at least in the New England States.
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to teach the opposition that their efforts to
take any Of these States from General Grant
will be unsuccessful. It is now as certain as
| any future event can we'll be that Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont Massachusetts, and
Rhode Island will cast their electoral votes for
the republican candidate. In Massachusetts
there will no doubt be material falling off in
the republican strength, for Banks and Sum-
ner will carry with them large number of
the republicans; but unfortunately. in that
State the majority to be overcome reaches
seventy-seven thousand. However calamity
the seceders may fight, they can never hope to
break down this enormous figure; and if
General Grant receives the thirteen votes of
the State it is immaterial whether he secures
them by one hundred majority or
by one hundred thousand Connecticut
alone remains as disputable ground,
and even there the chances appear
to be that the State will be found in November
in the same position it occupied in 1868, when
it declared for Grant by three thousand ma
jority. We have thus got something tangible
at last to lay hold Of in this singular Presi-
Dental scramble, for we find that there is no
detection in New England sufficient to wipe
out the republican majorities of 1868, and
that all those electoral votes may be scored as
tolerably certain for Grant We have also
seen enough to convince any reasonable mind
that the negro vote will be cast solidly on the
republican side, and that Sambo North and
Sambo South will adhere to the blue coat and
brass buttons to which they religiously be-
ieve their race owes its freedom. From
this we may fairly conclude that the
administration will also secure the
Southern States in which the colored
voters predominant or form large
percentage of the population, such as South
Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas,
Florida Georgia, Alabama and Virginia, thus
leaving the battle to be fought mainly in the
Middle and Western States. Over these
States doubt still hangs but it will be toll
erably well settled by the votes in the October
elections. We shall then be able to tell with
something like certainty whether there is
really to be popular revolution in November
or whether the famous liberal movement is to
prove itself Of no more account in the larger
States than it appears to be in New England
and the South, and is to collapse in advance
of the great final battle. At oil events, what
is already known is sufficient to show that the
opposition have hard task before them; for
if we are to concede that General Grant goes
into the race with thirty-two New England
votes, excluding Connecticut and ffty-four
Southern votes, not reckoning Virginia, in his
favor, we give him start that carries him
more than half way to the winning post
1t must not be forgotten that the democrats
in New York and some other States have up to
this time been remarkably apathetic in the