The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-11-10
The November Elections.

Elections were held in above twenty
States. last week, all but three of them
on Tuesday. The result was n surprise
10 most people, Democrats as well rs
Republicans. In some of the States
only municipal or minor State officers
were elected, and the result in these
cases can scarcely be taken into this
consideration. AS for instance, in our
own state, the regular election was
held in September, and last Tuesday
only an especial election was held in
the Second Congressional District.
where they failed to make choice in
september There Denis0n was elect
ed over Pelaud, and the Democratic
McLane by handsome majority. In
nearly all the States which held State
elections, the Democrats made gains
and they carried some States which
have been counted on as sure for the
Republicans for fourteen years. Mas
sachusetts gave CASTOR, Democrat a
small majority, and the Democrats
have elected five out of their nine Con-
gressmen including one Liberal Repub-
iican, and of course there is some tall
Growing among The conservative roost-
ers.
Tho New York Democrats elected
Tilden by considerable majority over
Gov. Dix, the Republican nominee.
They also made gains In the number
of their Congressman.
In New jersey, Bedlc, Democrat, is
elected governor, by small majority.
OF the other States. Alabama, Kansas,
Michigan. Minnesota, Nevada, Penn
sylvania, Rhode Island South Carolina,
and Wisconsin have gone Republican
by reduced malorities and Arkansas,
Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Mary
land, Missouri, Tennessee and Virgin
ia have gone Democratic. 1t is gener-
ally conceded that the next Congress
will have a working Democratic major
ity, provided the Liberal Republicans
work In with them, which seems to us,
at least doubtful.
We dc not care to moralize upon the
causes of this tidal wave, just now, but
we must admit that there is evidence
that something Is the matter, Wheth-
er 1t was the Third term scare, which
never had any other existence than rs
IL bugbear conjured up in the heated
Imagination OF alarmists and willy
tricksters of the opposition, or whether
1t lie the grumbling of the outs, or the
general dissatisfaction Of uneasiness
and inderterminate discomfort, it mat
tiers not. The fact remains. Another
fact also remains in the application of
moral lessons to the New York cleo
ton. The election murder, which by
the way might have been, of some SER
vice if only it had occurred before the de-
ceased had voted, and the pool selling
which became prominent feature of
the New York election, this year, were
fitting illustrations of the way they
propose TO do il under the new regime.
1t was pretty bold affair, publicly an
nounced through the papers, and pub
licly sold at the fashionable hotels of
New York. Well, the party which
can afford to re-clect Britain for Dis
trict Attorney, whom Governor Dix
had felt under obligation to remove
from Office for malfeasance, could stand
any adium which might attach TO cleo
tIon gambling, of course.
The success Of the Democrats in New
York, Massachusetts,. and other States,
where we had reason to expect differ
ent result, should not be taken for more
than 1t Is worth. Many good men and
friends of progre ssive ideas will tenn
porarily join with the opposition for
the purpose Of administering rebuke.
Others change front for other reasons,
and for other reasons stlll they will he
ready to change back again as soon as
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