The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-06-12

THE election in Oregon took place last
Monday week. ard, as usual, it was report
cd bv telegraph that the Radical State
ticket was elected. Complete returns,
however, show that such was not the fact,
and that Grover, the present Democratic
Governor, was reelected by a majority OF
1000 over ToIman, Radical, and Campbell,
Independent, and that A. L. Dow, Demo
Graf, was elected to Congress. Thus Ore
gon in the far west sends greeting TO her
two redeemed and Democratic sisters IN
the extreme east, New Hampshire and
Connecticut. and by her vote forecasts the
downfall of the present national admins
tration and the certain election of Demo
cratic President in 1876. The New York
World of last Saturday, speaks of the re-
suit as follows
In p country so SparSely settled ana de-
void Of easy intercommunication rs Oregon
it may bc expected that several days Will
clapSe before complete returns of general
election can he received. From what is al
ready known, however, and estimating The
vote in tue far eastern counties, where the
Democrats largely prepOnderate OUr CORES
pondent ut the State capital felt warranted
in telcgraphiug yesterday that the entire
Democratic State and Congressional ticket
was elected by upwards OF lUOe majority.
This result, which is confirmed hy the As
sOciated Press despatch this morning, had
been anticipated in Tie World. IN view of
the present condition Of our politics II was
idle for anybody to expect anything else E.
The country is moving by common i'm
pulse towards = Democratic restoration, and
it would have been strange indeed If Ore
gon had been laEgard. The States of New
Hampshire and Connecticut, in which, the
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twenty years, We're during the past spring
swept into the general current, and Oregon,
! whose recent autecedents have been Demo
cratic, could do no less than stay in 1t.
The most significant feature of the result
| in Oregon is the complete failure of the So
| called independent movement. Our news
! paper friends who from imperative motives
! of self-respect have been forced to abandon
/ the support Of the Republican organization,
! but whose eyes have not yet perceived the
! true path, hoped much from il. The result
/ shows, Just as we predicted that it would
! last week, that the new party was third in
I the contest. 1t demonstrates that third
partv is not wanted by the people. The
Democrats find that within their own organ
/ ization every patriotic aspiration OF their
| hearts can be satisfied, and The discontented
Republicans are learning very fast that the
: salvation of the country must be accom-
/ plished by the same organization, and that
| Il gathering of Heterogeneous elements with
, no common purpose in view, and calling it
/ self an independent party, can never do it.
There are conventions about to be held in Ill
/ iuois, Indiana, and Kansas TO organize this
} third party, but the movement in those
1 States will have no more favorable result
| than that in Oregon. When the time fol
/ voting comes, sensible men who are anXiOu
! to defeat the party in power Will not throw
! their votes away upon an impossible caNse
/ Mr.. George A. La Dow, who has been
successful on tn. Congressional ticket, is tn,
! rst member elect of the FOrty-fOuEth Con
! gress. He IS a Democrat, and his election
may be regarded as prophetic of the politi
| cal complexion OF that body.