Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-10-10
The Great Victory.

The great battle of the campaign has
been fought The enemy has been met
in their most boosted strongholds, and an
overwhelming victory has been won over
the combined factions of Democracy and
Liberal Republicanism. The banner of
Republicanism waves in triumph, in
scribed thereon, Pennsylvania Twenty
seven thousand Ohio Seventeen thous-
and, and Indiana Six thousand. The
old keystone State has responded, with
clarion voice to the rallying cry Of
Grant and Wilson, Ohio, which MIR.
Greeley predicted was sure to give in its
adhesion to the Observation-Disclosures, which
every man of the opposition we're conf
dent of carrying, by the election of Mr..
Hendricks for Governor; Nebraska sends
greetings, and the District of Columbia
saws the Capitol eff the Nation is loyal to
pa. the GOOD old cause, and New Jersey aids
her voice in a municipal election, by an
encouraging gain in the midst of the old
Democratic guard of Newark. Surely
this is glory enough for one day. The
presidential contest is settled, and the
Republican party has now only to take
up its march for the White House, arriv-
ing there and saluting its chief on the
5th Of November. I "a .....
The result of the election in Pennsyl-
vania, Indiana, and Ohio goes beyond
what appeared to be possible Hartranft
is elected, although his defeat was gen
orally expected. There seems to have
-, hos
disappointed and defeated his unscrupu-
& ilous accusers OF course the majority
for the rest of the State ticket and for
the congressman at large is considerable
more than that for Governor, for por-
h/tidn Of the republicans either voted
against Hartranft or refused to vote for
him. T. The republicans have gained sew
eral Cangressme9.
r tIIn1S6S the first reports. from the Oc
tober election in Indiana give the State
to the democrats, and tor several days 1t
was admitted on all sides, that the dem
ocrats had carried the State. More than
ten DAYS passed before it began to be
generally known that the republicans
had elected their ticket by nearly one
thousand majority and several demo-
cratic papers continued to claim the
State until after the presidential election
n@ 1t may be 50 now, if the vote is as close
as it was four years ago, for now, as
then, doubtless, the latest returns will
be more favorable to the republicans
than the first, as the earliest returns nee
III essarily included large proportion of
the democratic strongholds. We there
40 fore feel confident of theState, although
many think it doubtful, and the demo-
Gratis hope it may prove to have gone for
them by small majority.
TherepubIicans now hold a fortified
. 80 position. The liberals anddemocrats at
tackled it with view of capture, and
signally failed. This repulse takes away
the possibility Of triumph. .The.opposi-
ton having failed to win any of the
leading Northern States, is ruled out of
the race in the presidential contest. 1t
has scarcely a standing place for opera
tons in November. Having failed to
81 carry one OF three great States i'm Tues
: days election it will degenerate into
farce. The bubble has been pricked. No
-. 'reasonablehope exists foritin November,
although it has struggled desperately for.
for a few weeks more of life, There is
, nothing left but a sweeping triumph for
Grant and Wilson.