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THE RUTLAND HERALD
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER Z, 1878.
THE ELECTIONS.

Our democratic exchanges came to us
Yesterday loaded down with black letter
headings and large display cuts of game
birds, and so many exultant expressions,
that we began to think that the party
had been out to a champaign supper and
come home slightly elevated. But we
soon learned by perusal of the election
returns that all this rejoicing in the anti
Republican press, was not caused by
an overdose of their ordinary beverages,
but that they had met with some success
scs in the election of Tuesday, and this
was such an unusual circumstance with
them of late years, that they were. per-.
fectly justified in getting hilarious over
their unexpected and uncommon good
luck. We will also excuse their extra
VACANT prophesies, that these local VIC
tories where they have won them, are
the fore-runner of the complete disrup-
ture and overthrow of the Republican
party, on the ground of their iutoxica-
ton by the influence of the victory
There can be no doubt that the lesson
of Tuesday must disabuse the minds of
the people of some of the theories many
Of them seem to have entertained, that,
the hoaTy old democracy was dead, and
that no damage could arise from its
corpse until the power of political re-
surrection should have collected its scat
tered members, and brought forth from
new birth, a regenerated and purified
organization, upon whose garments there
should not be a smell of the old order of
things. The fact is the old party has
considerable vitality left, and they do
not propose to allow an election, even
though it be of little Importance, to go by
default. On Tuesday the Republicans
stayed away from the polls by the
thousands in every State, while the op-
position marched out and voted with all
the precision and party drill of twenty
years ago. Fhe result makes it neces-
sary to again recognize the existence of
the Democratic party, as an organized
body, as an established fact, The old
Standard is raised, and this temporary
success in Ohio, New York, Virginia
aud other places is sufficient to hold it
together until the next Presidential can
yass. This is what 1t means and we be-
leve is about all that can be claimed for
it.
We have no fears of what the result
win be- The people are not going to
renounce the work of the last twelve
years, and suffer the disunion, rebel SEN
timent of the country to regain at the
ballot box what they lost upon the field
of battle. The American people never
make progress backwards. In politics,
business, or anything they take hold OF,
they drive through to its highest results,
and we can see no cause to now lose
faith in the integrity and intelligence of
the people because they have slept while
the enemy crept in and stole some of the
minor treasures. 1t is probably for the
best that this feeling of security for re-
suits that the Republican party have felt
In this campaign. should be shaken, and
all be made to feel that ''eternal vigil
ance is the price of liberty" The
democracy of to-day is the democracy of
war times, and their local successes now
must have the effect it always did, to
cement together and strengthen the de-
tenders of the country, and trusting in
that result we are not very sorry they
Won this time.
Descending from q general discussion
of these elections and their lessons, to
the more particular consideration of that
part of the battle field nearest to us, we
find across the border in New York a
demonstration of the strength of new
feeling in politics. Isaac Y. Baker, Jr.,
was regularly nominated by the republi-
can party as their candidate for the
State Senate in his district. The dis
;trict had a republican majority large
enough to elect him overwhelmingly,
but it was understood, whether truth
fully or not we cannot say, that pow
erful railroad company was supporting
him, and his own county, thagh strong
ly republican, gave a heavy majority for
his opponent, and every where the peo-
pie have shown disposition to strike
down the political power OF railroad
corporations. And all signs indicate
that one of the strongest war cries of
the immediate future is going to be anti
monopoly, and anti corporation oppres-
sion, and any man who has a railroad
corporation behind him, is going to
have up hill work in running for office.
We hope it will drive all parties to the
necessity of nominating better men as
their candidates, and that the reform
meant is the supplying of the places of
wirepullers and tricksters with honest,
sturdy men as leaders in every political
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