The sun., 1873-11-05
The Election in the state and the City,

The Election in the State and the City.
The scattered and incomplete returns
from all parts of the State indicate that
the Democrats have elected all the candi-
dates ou their state ticket by n majority
which is quite ne likely TO he above twenty
thousand as below 1t.
No one who has carefully watched the
current of events for week past could
doubt that the tide was steadily turning
against the Republicans. But the majority
Ivy which they have been beaten
ls larger than even sanguine
Democrats anticipated. Tho aggregate
vote is doubtless smaller than usual in the
of years, and the Republicans have suf-
fcred from this cause more than the Dem
ocrats. The money panic Of the last seven
weeks has operated with much more Sc
verify III this city and State than in any
other part of the country, and for obvious
reasons il has tended to eInharrass the po-
litical action Of the Republicans to Il far
greater degree than it has that of their
opponents.
But these causes do not account for the
Unexpectedly large majority with which
the Republican candidates on the State
ticket were overwhelmed at the ballot
boxes yesterday. Great numbers OF Re
publicans refused TO go 10 the polls because
they were tired of the present leadership
OF the party in this state, because they
wished TO show their contempt for the
men who passed the cowardly back
pay resolution at the Utica Convcn-
ton, because they desired TO exhibit
their Indignation towards Credit Mobilicr
twindlers and Pacific Railway corrup-
tionists, and because they intended TO put
quietus upon GRANTS aspirations for
third term and get him and his hackers
out Of the way preparatory to instituting
searching reforms in their own party.
When the returns are all received and
carefully colated it will undoubtedly turn
out that there has been no increase in the
Democratic vote but a dminuton rather,
md that the result is owing TO the disgust
which many Republicans feel toward
some of the leaders of the party and
which they intended to manifest on this
occasion by ahstaining from the polls and
leaving them in the lurch.
Ii Will be noticed that the change In pub
lie opinion which has prostratoI the Re
publcans does not spring from few local
tiles, but spreads all over the State, and
that IL is more general and weeping In the
Republican strongholds than in localities
which are almost invariably Democratic.
This flows from the causes we have men,
toned, and from the additional cause
that in many of these stronghold
the Republicans wcrs burdeucd 10y
several unworthy and unpopular can
didatcs for the state Senate Another
reason why the Democrats have made
such large gains in the Republican coun-
ties Of the central and western portions of
the state sthat the Liberal Republicans in
those sections pretty generally voted with
the Democrats in order just this once Ia
plant "A stunning blow right between the
eyes of those short-sighted small lights in
this city who told the Liberals last sum
mer that they were strong enough TO get
along without them and wanted none Of
their aid.
1t is impossible to tell yet with certainty
how the Legislature stands. It looks,
however, as if the Republicans had pretty
surely secured u majority of three or four
In the Senate, with the chances decidedly
In their favor for a moderate majority in
the Assembly.
In TIN, ciJy the Tammany Democrats
have elected their sheriff, Clerk, Judges.
and Coroncrs by large maiorities. The
candidates, however do not run neck
and neck hy long odds. For three
or four days past this result has been
anticipated 10y careful observers. a fusion
of any sort was from the start distustcful
to large body of Republicans, and was
not entirely agreeable to por-
ton of the Apollo Democrats. The
fusion actually made dissatisfied great
numbers in both wings OF the
allied forces. The materials Of which
the Union ticket was made up were toe
light to give success TO an experiment
which could triumph only hv each sid,
contributing to the coalition its strongest
nnd most attractive names OF the twelv,
candidates on the joint ticket not NOR,
than two or three came up to this stand
urd In the heat of the battle the allie
filnched from their guns, aud of course
the victory was with their opponents.
The Tammany Democracy carry all tn,
Senators in the city, except Mr. BooTH il
the Fifth District, who takes the place o.
Mr.. BENEDICT. There was sharp contes
in the seventh District between LEDwITH
Tammany, and EvERARD, Apollo, TO III
the seat now occupied by Mr.. O'BRIrN. !
Is believed that LEDwITH is elected. In
word Tammany may be said to hay
swept the city.