The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-11-08
Comments Of the Press on the !ate
Eleotionn.

The NEST important days work done in
this county since the close Of the war, was
accomplished in the yates in which elee-
tions were held yesterday. The Damoc-
racy have aunihilatsdihe majority Of iifiy-
Ave thousand by which thn Republican
party carried the State Of New York last
year. replacing It BY Democratic majority
Of fifteen thousand making gain Of
ninety thousand in one year. The Dem
ocratic victory in Ohio, last month, impor-
tant as that was, was as a small localshow
er compared with wide drenching rain.
We have not only triumphed in New York,
but have carried Virginia, carried Wiscon-
sin, carried Texas gained handsomely in
New Jersey, and reduced the great Re
publican majority of seyenty-fye thousand
last year in Massachusetts to mere insig-
ni6cant bagatelle.
The revolution has fully set in bywhich
the Republican party will be overthrow
in every important State in the Uuion us
fast as elections are held. A Democratic
Congress viii be elected next year, and a
Democratic President in 1876.
The righteous verdict. which has been
pronounced against the gross incompetence
and the seandalous corruption of our Re-
pnblican rulers, has been FASTENED by the
present financial disturbances; but the
grounds of this verdict were as clearly
perceived by many minds long before these
troubles commenced as they are to-day.
The mass of the people, however, are not
accustomed to foresee events in their
causes; they base their judgment on ac-
complished facts; but when they see credit
Frustrated, business ruined, and industry
arrested, they justly hold the Government
responsible when there is no other cause
to which they can trace the disasters This
Is what has happened now The tide was
indeed beginning to turn long before these
financial disasters came on. The diseon-
tent Of the agricultural classes was fore
boding symptom. The universal cry of
denunciation against the salary-grab and
kindred iniquities, was symptom ofshaken
confidence. The courage of the Demo-
cratic party in Ohio in making a square
fight, evinced growing popular sense
that the Republican party had lost lis
prestige and was ceasing to be inyincible.
The financial crisis has only accelerated a
movement against the Administration
which was already well begun. But even
with the financial crisis as an explanation,
the work of yesterday will fill the Repub-
liean leaders with establishment as well as
CONSERVATION. They cannot misrcad the
fatal handwriting on the wall "Thou art
weighed in the balance aud found want
ing"
The victory has been more splendid in
New York than in any other State, because
in New York the Democratic party had
the honesty and wisdom to set forth its
principles without any quailing hesitation.
We boldly presented platform in which
there was no trimming ambiguity, in
which We told the people with the most
perfect frankness and the utmost distinct
ness what the policy is which the party
intends to pursue when it comes into pow
err The people of the State have signiied
by their votes both their approval of the
policy and of the honest boldness with
which it is proclaimed Had the platform
adopted by the Democratic Convention
at Utica been less explicit and courageous,
We should have witnessed no such triumph
as the people gave US yesterday.
The success in Ohio made it certain
that the Democratic party would maintain
its organization.
The great victory in New York and the
important gains elsewhere make it equally
certain that "the night is far spent and
the day is at hand. ~ y World, No
remJer 5h.