, 1872-11-08
THE ELECTION.


Special Despatch to The Chicago Tribune.
New YORK, Nov. 1.-THE Administration press
continue to celebrate their triumph, ascribing
nearly all the glory to Grants popularity, ignor-
ing the fact that, it one party forgets to go to
the polls the majorities are likely to be1args and
one-sided. About 5000 Bourbon Democrats in
New jersey omitted to vote. Even the First
New York DistIct elects Grant Congressman.
Staten 1sland, which till now has always been
Democratic, gives Grants majority. The Demo-
cratic General Committee there neglected to
print any Electoral ticket, and no Greeley tickets
were to be had until the afternoon,
when supply was procured at pri-
vate expense. Suffolk County, where there is
good deal Of Bourbonism, gives 1,50o for Grant,
and even Queens County went Republican.
The Orange and Sullivan districts disappoint
both sides in its Grant majority and so indeed
do about all the caunties in the State.
One OF the ugly features Of the State election
Is the irregular running Of Ke1nan, on account
Of his Catholic faith. In Brooklyn he vas
scratched by five thousand voters, and in the
Catholic wards Of New York he ran heavily
| ahead. The Apollo Hall Democracy secured
the Republicans. Tammany made show Of re-
Of Congress elect are Tammany men.
The crushing defeat Of O'Brien proves that New
+t1o AAo 11&lGk4 ~ E5 4li6i Df k16 lIiSG Ftk9s
and that the business men generally are taking
more interest in politics. The O'Conor ballots
in this city numbered less than 20.
The World says of the Democratic
future depends on the fact that it is
not Democratic principles which have been de-
fected in this election, but only 3 mistaken
Democratic strategy. Had We gone into the
contest on our principles, and had We been free
from Tammany frauds, local matter for which
IN Fr11@ ot
way repsonsible, We should no" hare encoun-
tered this signal defeat. This has not been 3
contest Of opposing principles, but contest of
political accidents. The battle must yet be
fought on the ground Of principle, and, on that
ground, the Democratic party cannot fail. It
will learn wisdom from it's recent mistake, and,
! never again compromise principle for fancied
New YoRK, Nov. 1.-THE Times estimates
Grants popular majority at 701, 300. It thinks
States and Il Electoral votes. it says, are sure
for Greeley, and this cannot be increased by
more than two States, and % Electoral votes ad-
ditioaal.
The Tribune gives Grant txenty-three States,
and 243 Electoral votes. It claims Georgia,
Louisiana, Maryland, Tennessee, and Ken
tucky for Greeley, making q total Of 81 electoral
votes, and asserts that several States, making
an aggregate Electoral vote OF ~, are still in
Doubt
AA6 nUFM tHtllAkG5 tudt 11d4L toPu111
majority at 520,916 and gives him 269 electoral
votes to SO for Greeley.
The Tribune says ssIhe results in this State
seem to point clearly to two conclusions q
marked percentage Of the Democrats refused to
support Greeley, and that large percentage,
even OF those who supported Seymour, did not
vote at ALL" The Tribune is well pleased with the
results Of the city election though its candidates
we're not elected It says there is end to the
era Of fraud and violence in the metropolis.
St. John Repubican) is reelected in the
Orange District. He Was at first reported de-
feated.
That staid old Democratic sheet, the Journal
Of Commerce, has many misgiviugs as to the
future. It reasons that it is not well for the
country to have such unchecked power in any
human hands, for when the Administration is
brought into power by small majority,
it must measure more nicely the steps
it will take; ia kept within
reasonable bounds by the presence Of strong
opposition, ready to take advantage Of its slight
est e11ors. But with two-thirds or three-fourths
OF Congress as its supporters, ands 3 large ma
jorty Of its friends in the several State Govern
ments, this wholesome restraint is to great
extent removed. The journal is no better
pleased with the election Of Havemeyer through
the O'Brien bolt. If the regular Democracy
had been equally unHcrupulous, they would have
nominated and elected O'Brien.