The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1874-11-12
The II
4th. coinmeL
the late State

corded this morning has surpassed
the widest hopes of the Democrats
and it has far outstripped the mos,
doleful anticipation of the greatest
coward in the Republican party. In
fact the change is 30 complete and
overwhelming that il is not possible
to assign any local cause for it, or &c
count for it on other than general
principles The Republicans lose
everywhere and universally. They
lose in the most amazing way, and
in the most astonishing places. They
do not hold their own in ten localities
in the United States, apparently ;
and such q phenomenon as an in
creased Republican majority is only
peculiar for its rareness, and for the
solitary wastes between.
The cause for this change must be
looked for deeper than any mere sur
face scratching will show although
that expedient, as applied to tickets,
had good deal to do with it. Those
who shall undertake 10 account for
the upheaval must discover reasons
commensurate with the depth and
violence Of the shock. Different
classes will reach different conclu.
sions. The rampant partisan will
find in petty causes enough to salts.
fy his dim and contracted observa
ton. The better class of observers
will reach the same sedate condition
OF conviction through other avenues
OF varied bredth. One will attribute
the disaster to this. that, or the other
neglect OF some duty on the part Of
the party driven from the command
OF the nation 8 purse and sword, and
find ample explanation for univer-
sal revolt in acts which have nothing
but local character, and the effect
which could not reach beyond cir
cumscribed circle Others will see
and these arc chiefly Democrats
that "the enthralled nation has risen
in despair to crush the oppressor,
for the terrible evils Of the fourteen
years during which the country has
done many Of the noblest things in
her own history of the human race.
Others, consisting OF q set Of
Pharisees and hypocrites, will discern
in all that the last thirty-six hours
have shown that the once powerful
Republican party has fallen because
Grant would not speak out on the
third term because the civil service
(Oh ! where is that waif now y was
not made the leading issue that
the moral sense was violated by the
Of Simmons to the Bos
ton collectorship, and that Simmons
we use him as type-did not do
wisely in appointing his tide waters.
But particularly that BUTLER has
dragged the party down to the ter
rible level of his low nature. And
more to the same general effect.
Our own opinion is that the Re.
publican party is beaten because the
panic has affected il as it has affected
every other party that ever existed in
this country. That the fear of dis.
aster, now, as always, had alarmed
the bad class in our ranks who cling
to the strong party for the sake of
personal gain, and who desert the
ship like rats in storm. That the
workingmen now idle, because of the
panic, have become convinced that
"a change was the cure for all evils,
and a restoration of every good. That
the enforcement of the laws in the
South consolidated that region in op-
position. That the hopes of the Free
Traders consolidated New England
md New York. And that the rest
less desire to punish somebody
which we presume was the element
in human nature suggesting the doc
trine,of total depravity-had spasm
of peculiar malignity this year. To
these reasons, and to the open,
and disgusting treason of
those who, no longer able ograsp all
the offices determined to ruin the
party, we owe our present disaster,
and the disastrous defeat from which
we now rest but rest without dis
honor"