The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-11-15

portionately heavier losses in the of-year
than party having no such extTaneous
and adyentiticus aid. The real truth Of
the matter was set forth in the despatch
which we published from Massachusetts,
viz
The feature Of the election to-day is the
revelation it makes Of the weakest Of party
ties. The independent tickets have been the
popular ones everywhere and no opportunity
seems to have been lost for rebuking the
trading politicians.
Those who think that these simultane-
Gus Republican defeats are the symptoms
ofan of-year, and not the first tokens Of
revolution, had better study the returns
by localities, and they will find that the
heaviest inroads have been made in pre-
cisely those places where the Republican
party has hitherto been strongest--in such
counties as Kane, Kendall, and Bureau In
Illinois such as Scott and Henry in Iowa I;
such as Douglass, Kansas, and Racine,
Wisconsin, to say nothing Of the State of
Massachusetts, which is strewn with local
wrecks everywhere.
The Democrats have carried all the
States in which elections for United States
Senators are to take place at the next SEES
sion of the Legislature. Ohio will continue
Mr.. Thurman in the Senate. He is
among the ablest men in that body, and as
pure as he is able. His skirts are not
soiled either by Credit Mobilier plumber or
salary-grabs. In Wisconsin Carpenter
will be chosen to stay at home, and some
good man put in his place. Maryland will
continue Democrat in the Senate, and
Mr.. Lewis, in Virginia, will be superseded
by some person in harmony with the Dem
ocratic sentiments of the people of that
State. These are important elements in
tho late elections, and give the verdict of
the people with unusual force and signi6-
cance.-Philadelphid Age.
The Portland (Maine) Argus says: We
met Republican yesterday who has trav-
eled among the people since the elections
and he declares he has not met a member
of his party, not an ofhce-holder, who does
not declare that he is, like himself, re-
joiced over the result. He says their par
ty deserved it sill, and more, and that if
they do not now reform-cease TO do evil
and learn to do well-they will be voted
out of power by larger majority than
they were voted in last year. Probably
no election results in many years have
given such universal satisfaction as those
Of this autumn, beginning in California
and closing with those of Tuesday last.
The Charleston Ncps and Courier says
God speed the Democracy. The hopes of
the South rest upon their success. The
only possible escape for us from utter ruin
and degradation rests in their restoration
to power. We would encourage caution
aud fidelity to principle. Let every lover
of his country give aid and support. Let
us purify the errors of the party if any
exist uniting North and South for com
mon cause in common effort against a
common foe
A HEAVY GAIN.-Washburn's MAORI
ty in Worcester county, Mass, last year
was l2,50O this year his majority was only
500, a Democratic gain of 1l,7O0. The
city of Worcester, the most Radical city
of the most Radical State in the Union,
gives the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor over 1000 majority, while last year
Washburn's majority was 215S, showing
a gain in vote of 5000, of 1880 votes.
The Syracuse Courier says that if the
Democratic party will now earnestly in
augurate the work Of true reform and
honest government it will surely win the
Presidential prize in 1876"
The Democratic majority in Maryland
will reach twenty thousand, and in the
Legislature there will be joint majority
of sixty.