The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-17
yssE OCTOBER ELECTIONS.


sssE OCTOBER ELECTIONS.
one year ago the October elections
we're arxiously looked forward TO- the
telegraph offices and bulletin boards,
the night after election, were surround
81 by AZ e>pectant and anxious crowd,
and hilarity or depression ruled the hour.
II was true that the elections in Vermont
and Maine, the previous month, had fore
shadOwed the result, but some of the tri-
,imphant party were disposed to be de-
spondent, while the opposition pretended
10 ascribc their defeat to local causes and
conten,ed Themselves with 4 calculation
Of the percentage Of loss and gain in diff
tercnt districts and states. Perhaps they
had reason to thus content themselves. A
mere tyro in arithmetic could demon
stratc, beyond the possibility of cavil OF
doubt, from the Vermont election re-
turns, the sure, certain, overwhelming de-
feat of General Grant. a., 1t was all fine on
paper, and plain clear and conclusive az
one Of the demonstrations Of one of Eu-
lids problems. Why, look at it minute
end ''sce how il was ysurself." Gen. Grant
Nas first elected to the Presidency. in 1868,
by majority of only three hundred zine
thousand five hundred eighty eight votes,
being less than six per cent of the votes
east. II this majority could be disposed of
il this six per cent could he wiped out, it
would be all plain sailing, aud the admins
tration changed. Aud wasn't the victory
already wonf Didn't the actual figures
show 1t? 1t was not necessary TO so to
Maine to find how the matter stood, but
right here in Vermont, it was apparent.
The q ~ criterion, of course, was the re-
turn of the four years before-thc State
election preceding Presidential election,
and, from 1868 to 1872, Panton showed an
opposition gain of three hundred per cent.
Mt Tabor about the same. while West
Windsor exceeded one hundred per cent.
and the matter was hopeful enough fo.
those who wanted to see it in that light:
But after ALL there was really no doubt
about the result of the October elections in
the. mind of any one save that that
little lingering doubt which always remains
until the event, itself, happens.
Ii didn't need newspapers, however, to
inform the people that there was to be an
election, when it was TO occur, or what
was its result. There was a president to
la uianfpl ba VT mud tho ,,pr,,io
were wideawake but this year it is all
different. Like dim memory of the past
we recall the fact that political conven
'ions were held, and nominations made ir
somr Of the western and middle states il
the later summer or earlier autumn, but
the telegraph has hardly deigncd TO inform
the country press that the elections hay,
actually taken place or to pon, ont the re-
suit. Notwithstanding oil this silence
elections were held, Tuesday, in Pcnnsy
Yania, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa, aut
although for the want of general interest
TIN actual result is not yet known aocu
faicIy. yet it is sufficiently so for all prac
tlcal purposes. In Oregon--which. by thu
way, VIC omitted TO mention before-.Iame,
", Nesmith, democrat. and fOrmerl,
Dnite1 states Senator, was elected mem
Der ri Congress, Monday, Ia ill vacancy
orcasloncd by the death of Joseph @. vii
nan, republican elected in June last. Iowa
alone, shows larger vote, which Is ac
counted Tor by the appearance in the fiel,
IF distinctive farmers ticket, In addition
10 the two old party tickets. The reports
come in slowly, of course, but enough
have been received to indicate, bcyon,
doubt, the reelection Of Governor Carpen
ter, republican, the present incumbent, sn,
thc remainder OF the state ticket Ii
Pennsylvania the election was for judg
of the supreme court, state treasurer, one
third oi the state senate and the entir
house Of representatives. The republican
state officers, as well as a majority of boil
branches Of the legislature of the SAM
party, seem TO have been elected. In Ohio
there is more doubt. Governor Noyes, re
publican, is, doubtless. reelected but til,
particular complexion of the legislature i
not yet determined and may not be unit
i's assemblagc. The Ohio election was, il
TACT the only one TO which any import
ance attached, because United State
Senator must he cho. en-, by the new legls
liturc' In the place of Alien G. Thurman
A new party movement was started here
early in the summer, designed 10 embrac,
the democrats, liberal republicans. anti
monopolists, ETC., and thus lay the FONDA
ton for grand national party. Thurman
aud some of the other more prominen,
democratic leaders refused TO Join Oh,
movement, but made o distinctive mart,