The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-11-11
A Suggestion That May be Worth
CanhidhflnR.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER IL, 1879.
A Suggestion That May be Worth
Considering.
The ofciGl vote Of Allegheny county
Pa, as we find Tin The PitIbuIgh C1m
Msretal L.: GRANT, 25,s40. GRIZZLY
9,o55-GRANT's majority 1891. In DC.
tOber the vote stood HARTRANFT 25,77li
BuekGLsw 10. n thus appears thai
GRASTs vote was IS greater than HAIR
TRANyr's, and GREELEY's 7,435 less than
BucKALEw's. The Official vote Of Phil
adelphis, Is Published in the Reaprd iS
GRANT %, $50; GREEIET e3, 4lO-GRAxT's
majorit 45,As. In October the vote
stood: HARrRAAFr ese7s; BucxALEw
4sAl. 1t thus appears thus appears thai
GRANTS vote Is AZ less than bar.
TRANFT's and GREELEY's q, 43l less than
BucKALEw's. It's common TO hear Re,
publicans say that "GRANT Is stronger
than his party" but 1t does not appear tc
have been so in the two CHEF cities Of
Pennsylvania, where he had his largest
moj0rities. The Republican vote for
Governor is not quite maintained, while
S2s6s Democrats and Liberals who voted
in October appear to have RETAINED from
voting in November.
The official figures when published
will doubtless show an analogous state Of
facts throughout Pennsylvania and in
other States that held State electio prior
TO the Presidential election. We presume
it Is true, as q general proposition, that
the very large Republican msjorities for
President are relative rather than real in
their excess over former Republican ma.
jorities. That is, that the Republican
vote was not larger, but the opposition
vote was less. Our vote was not swelled
by the accession Of opposition votes, but
the majOrities were greater because the
OppOsIUOu VOIe leII OIL
Republicans in their ardor over their
great victory should not neglect to scru.
tinize the facts. We must not assume
that great part Of the Democratic party
has stampeded to the Republican ranks
and that our party is now strong enough
to do anything 1t pleases, right or wrong
The material Tor powerful opposition
party is still there-lying about loose it i.
true, but more ready than ever to take
any form Of combination that a seriou.
blunder Of the successful party might en-
courage. Il Is pAradoxical but true tina,
successful party is never in so much
peril as when It Is most successful; iol
then more than at any other time every
doubtful, or ipjudicious, or mercenary
scheme is thrust forward under an as
sumption that party SO powerfully
supported ray do anything it pleases
or under the claim that the victory
was an endorsement OF the scheme
THERE'S no question that in ordinary
times too large a majority in Congress il
dangerous, no less to the perpetuity o
the party possessing it than to the purity o
legislation. JONI RANDOLPH is CREDITED
with saying that the best majority is I
majority Of one, and the idea Is a sount
one.
The danger to the Republican party
now lea in having 100 absolute a control
1t will require the restraining efforts o
allprudeut Republicans to keep the mex
Congress from running headlong into tht
enactment Of improper legislation, ant
the corrective influence Of the press Il
keep the executive from lending It BIZ
countenAnce. About the first whole
some TACT that ought to receive the con
siderAtion Of Republicans Is that indica-
ted by the vote Of Pittsburgh and Phila
delphia. The reflection that the opposi
ton Is not seriously reduced in thu
mass, and that few errors on the part o.
the Republican Congress or Admlnistra
ton might fuse the now scattered ele
ments into compact and powerful party
which would sharply contest the Con
gress elections two years hence and the
Presidency two years later, should make
the Republicans temper their exultatior
with caution. The brakes will be needed
more than steam for the next two years