Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-10-22
THE ELECTIONS.
The Rcsalt In its Bearing upon the
Future OF Parties.

The result of the elections last week
seems TO have taken the country conf
pietcly by surprise. The year Sue
cceding n presidential election is an
off year in American politics, and
local elections in such years generally
attract but little attention outside of
the states in which they are held. AS
a general rule, they arc not marked
by any degree of enthusiasm i'll the
states in which they arc held, because
Of the uniformity with which parties
have hitherto adh, red to the vote OF
the year before. 1t has heretofore
been found impossible to deprive an
administration party of a clear ma
jority in any state, OH general issues,
within n year after the election by
which such administration was placed
in power. 1t has been known to and
maintained by those who have had
acccss to the public mind, that a poll
teal revolution was in progress.
which would, before another national
contest, sweep over the West and
annihilate the party by which the
= country has SO long been misgovern-
ed. and one section oppressed for the
bchoof of another: but those even
who were best informed were not
prepared for the substantial results
OF revolution, before the season of "a
The Republican and administration
newspapers, as i'll duty bound, are
able to invent theories by which the
result can be explained without adj.
uniting the loss of popular confidence
hy the party in power; but all such
theories are faulty in the one material
respect, they fail to include and ac.
count for all the facts. The last
session of the United States congress
was employed, to the exclusion OF
The pressing business demands of the
country, in the work of investigating
the fraudulent transactions Of Tho
leaders aud representative men Of tit
Republican party, and of cxposin.
tlGbI t1Cu " tiC oSoi" nv Aoutuiu
Of honest people. Tho session
closed with n piece of legislation il
admirable keeping with tho body o
che work, n piece of legislation whicl
has been denounced by men Of al
parties and of every political creed q
steal, and no man who participated
in that legislation and the steal la
since been able to face an American
audience, except probably two indiv
iduals long since given over to ii,
fanny, without n distinct dis claimc
Of participation in the job. The Re
publican party and the administrator
Is Justly held responsible for this, ant
no amount Of sophistry or sIcciu
pleading will ever convince tn
masses that any part OF that respon
sibility attaches elsewhere. A RcpuL
lican introduced the bill, n clca
Republican majority passed it, and
Republican President sanctioned il
The fact that a few individuals of
Democratic minority voted with III
majority and pocketed the pIundcl
f""s .ot in The smallest degree nit
gate the responsibility &C the majoI
i'y. So ilr people understand il All
have acted wpou il.
II Is evident that voters ar
freeing Themselves from the shack
.is Of discipline. by witch they hav
hrcn bound fur 30 many years, an
,rey have evinccd Enthusiastically adt
termination to think and act 70
themselves. The old party device.
which have been employed so 81,
cessfully by Radical orators In stin
ulating prejudice and section.
hstrcds, have become threadbare au
exceedingly thin, too thin to GOV,
their designs. The result in Ohio
doubly gratifying, because 1t une:
pectedly q Democratic q,
ministration In tho most populous ,
the Western states, aud because
guarantees the reelection 10 IL
Quilted States Senate Of Hon. A. I
Thurman, the sblest aud most incoI
ruptiblc member Of that body, an
the most unconpromising Dcmocr,
In the United States; and becaus,
finally, It demonstrates tho value {
pluck and manliness. We have a
ways coubted the expediency Of con
promi - aud coalitions, and hav
euiy heda reluctant consent. whc