The New York herald., 1872-10-07


Revolution Involved In the Results.
The State elections which take place In Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska and South
Carolina are of surpassing importance, inas-
much as they may determine the issue of the
Presidential contest Of November. We give in
another part Of this paper list of the Offices
State and national, to be filed in these cleo
tions, and Of the candidates in the field from
which it will be seen that in the heavy cata-
logue of members to be chosen to the next
Congress the results may settle the complexion
of the first House of Representatives for the
Presidential term beginning on the 4th Of
March next. There are also two United States
Senators depending upon these elections-one
in Pennsylvania, to succeed Simon Cameron,
whose term expires on the 4th of March, and
one in Indiana in place of Oliver p. Morton,
whose term also expires with the present Con-
gress. IT, then. there were nothing at stake in
these impending elections but the members Of
the two houses of Congress concerned, there
would be matter enough involved in reference
heavy popular vote. and especially in Penn
SylVan1a, ONO ana Indiana
But the congressman embraced In these
elections and the Legislatures are secondary
considerations in the presence of the Presi
dental issue between the administration party
and the opposition coalition, which will be the
all-absorbing issue tomorrow at the polls from
the Delaware River to the Missouri. The
main question: therefore, in Pennsylvania
Ohio and Indiana will be the popular vote Of
the States as between Grant and Greeley for
President; and hence the main battle In Penn
sylvania and Indiana will be for the Governor,
and In Ohio for the State ticket, not as test
of the strength of the immediate candidates,
but as trial which in such case will settle the
question for Grant or Greeley in November
| Nay, it is understood on all sides that these
| State elections Of tomorrow will either settle
the question of the Presidential succession in
favor of General Grant or. by popular reac-
ton against him, make the interval up to the
9th OF November including the national cleo
ton of that day, one of the most exciting,
desperate, closely contested and doubtful po-
litical struggles in the history Of the United
States.
These State elections Of the 9Th of October,
accordingly, may be set down as involving the
broad and comprehensive issue of political
revolution, embracing new administration at
Washington and the establishment there in
power of the new composite party of demo-
Gratis and liberal republicans in place Of Gene
raj Grant and the present dominant republican
party. This is the grand and all-absorbing is
sue; and what is the prospectP The democratic
| party at Baltimore made radical change Of
base Abandoning the dead issues of the
war; it accepted the 'ixed facts" of the con-
stitutional amendments, and upon this repub-
lican platform, fusing with the anti-Grant
republicans upon an anti-Grant republican
candidate for President and Vice President, it
stands before the country. This change Of
base-this new opposition organization-ren-
ders our statistics Of past elections exceedingly
unreliable, although the late results in Maine
and Vermont, touching the strength of this
new opposition movement, show that in that
quarter at least it has not materially shaken
| the integrity of the administration church.
But in Pennsylvania there is different con-
dition of things. Against General Cameron
there has been bolt on the part of such active
and experienced party leaders as Curtin, For
ney and Mcclure, which may be compared
with the secession of Mr.. Greeley and others
from the original firm of s'Seward Weed and
Greeley in New York. We know how the war
between the Seward and anti-Seward factions
has, from time to time, turned over this State
to the democrats and it is just this sort of in
/ ha%xy
Cameron republicans of Pennsylvania which
holds out to the opposition alliance there the
prospect Of the election tomorrow of Bucka-
lew as Governor. Moreover, General Har-
tranft Is still somewhat under cloud of
charges of corrupt surroundings, notwith-
standing the late extraordinary afidavits in his
vindication. He appears to be the weakest
man upon his State ticket, when, like Bucka-
lew, he should be the strongest. All these
things have operated to unite the opposition
elements and to discourage and demoralize the
republicans Under such drawbacks if Har-
tranft is carried through tomorrow, even by
the narrow margin of few hundred votes,
Pennsylvania may be set down as good for
General Grant in November by handsome
majority.
| Such is the operation Of a success of these
Pennsylvania October elections in the Presi-
Dental years. In 18i8 the State in October
was carried by the whig candidate for Cover
nor by only o few hundred votes, whereas in
November it was carried by General Taylor by
thirteen thousand over Cass, and by some
twenty-five hundred over both Cass and Van
Buren. In October, 1856, the democrats, on
the test question Of Buchanan, carried the
State by some two thousand majority, and the
result was accepted as the election of
Buchanan in November, with the aid of Penn