The New York herald., 1873-04-09
attention 70 the matter as one most deserving,
because of tbs extremely practical and benef-
cial nature of s6e enterprise.

The results of Monday s. election IN Con-
necticut are somewhat singular. On the main
questionable Governor and Stat6sticket-the
republicans have suffered a remarkable
defeat, and they have narrowly escaped the
loss of both houses Of the Legislature while
on the congressman, three out OF four, they
hold their own. From the returns before us
the popular vote of the State this year, as COM
pared with that Of 1872, on the Governor is
as foliows-
For Jewell rep. =. 1858 For Haven, rep. :. 81 424
For Hubbard, dem. 445i3 For lngersoll, dem 4o,l25
Scattering. 1867 Scattering 2o79
Total vote. ..... s3,O73 Total vote. .... 7362s
From these figures there is falling off in
the aggregate popular vote OF this year.
compared with that of last year.
of nearly twenty thousand two-thirds
of the loss falling upon the republicans
and one-third upon the democrats.
Here is something more of q loss to the party
in power than that usually resulting from gen.
eral apathy the year next succeeding
successful Presidential contest. There have
been dissatisfactions in the republican
columns in Connecticut. But how is it that
while they lose their Governor by some four
thousand majority for the other side they
have the popular vote of the State on their
congressman, by some two thousand majority?
This is easily explained The Connecticut
Congressmen-the whole four being re-elect-
ed-presented good record to their constitu-
ents. They were not mixed up with those
Credit Mobilier shares or dividends,
nor blackened by any other of
the many disreputable, nefarious and
scandalous doings of the late Congress.
They kept well to the windward of public
sentiment, and so they have not been
wrecked on a lee shore Each of these men,
bers Of Congress stood upon his own record
and the record Of each being good all are
endorsed for another term. On the other
hand, Mr.. Haven, the republican candidate
for Governor, represented the party ring of
the State and stood before the people as the
champion of this ring and Of all the ruling
rings of his party at Washington and else
where, and of their acts and measures, and
of their plans and policy, right or wrong
Hence his inglorious defeat. Local griev-
ances and prejudices will not account for it.
The Connecticut people have struck, through
him, at those above him and beyond him,
and this defeat of Haven is a warming and
rebuke to the republican party of the State
and the nation.
In the results of other recent elections in St.
Louis, Cincinnati, Cleveland and elsewhere,
there are evidences or indications not only of
general apathy in the republican camp, but of
general insubordination. In the State cleo
tions of September October and November
next, from present appearances, this republi-
can insubordination against party rings and
party candidates will be very emphatically
made manifest The issues between the oppo-
stion and the dominant party growing out of
the shortcomings and the corrupt doings of
the late Congress have hardly yet taken a def
mite shape; but in the interval to the Fall cleo
tons the republican budget of blunders at
Washington and that at Albany will be fully
exposed.
There are no more general Congressional
elections to be held this year. The State cleo
tions henceforward to come off will be local in
by influences operating in behalf of the con-
solidation of all the opposition elements
first, for the Congressional elections Of next
year, and, secondly for the grand campaign
of 1876. For that campaign, notwithstanding
the enormous power of patronage and spoils
possessed by the republican party, and not
withstanding the apparent poverty-stricken
helplessness of the democratic party, there is
an inviting prospect for the opposition forces.
In the very strength of the republican party,
and in its overweening sense Of security, lie its
greatest dangers-the dangers of continued
reckless extravagances and corruptions, and
of clashing intrigues among the party
leaders for the succession. In 1852, when the
democratic party of the country, under Pierce
for President, carried all the States except
four-Vermont and Massachusetts in the
North and Kentucky and Tennessee in the
South-the democratic leaders supposed they
were good for lease Of power of twenty years.
But in 1856 they were saved from disastrous
defeat by 'the skin of their teeth" and in
1860 they were scattered to the four winds of
heaven. So the republican party from its
overwhelming victory of 1872 may recklessly
do for itself the work Of the opposition for
1876 in preparing the ways and means for
another political revolution. The Connecti-
cut election and other recent elections, East
and West foreshadow general popular. reac-
ton in this direction against the bold and
reckless Jehu driving of the government pro-
vision train by the party in power.
THE GAsMEN's STRIKE HAS ASSUMED
DANGEROUS AspEcT.-Yesterday Italians and
Germans who were working for low wages in
place Of the strikers were attacked and beaten
We have earnestly sided with the men in
thar ofr,, yola ooaipcf tho crrshipo corporafa