New-York tribune., 1874-11-05
THE LATEST RESULTS.

Later details do little but confirm the
unusually full and complete returns OF Tues
days elections, which were printed in yester-
days various editions of THE TRIBUNE. Ihere
has been q universal reaction against Gran'
and the Administration. The oppositloh
secure the next House of Represent
atives by an easy majority OF n1ty-
our latest reports make it ffty-six-whle
their victories promise also speedy anu
material change in the Senate. The Michigan
Legislature is reported as probably Demo-
cratic. in which case the places that now
know Zachary Chandler will know him no
more forever. 1t is a departure that has
been too long delayed. In Wisconsin the
Republican majority in the Legislature on
joint ballot is brought down to about twenty
five, but as large number of the Republi-
cans were elected on distinct pledges against
Mr.. Matthew H. Carpenter, it is probable
that that statesman has likewise re-
ceived his last vindcation. In Hi
nois the farmers combination seems to
have carried the State. The poker playing
Congressman from Chicago succeeds in work.
ing his way back to Congress. There is
sort of poetic fitness, however, in the defeat
the statesman of Essex District, have gone
under together in the common flood.
There will be few even of those who in
1872 pronounced the funeral orations over
Gen. Banks, who will begrudge him the great
majority by which he is sent back to Con-
gress; and there will be rejoicing of more
positive kind over the triumph of Prof. Seelye
of Amherst College in Henry L. Dawes's
district. Prof. Seelye is no such man as
Dawes. Able, Outspoken, and honest,
thoroughly sound on financial questions, and
safe on all important issues, he will be most
valuable accession to the House.
In the vth District of New-Jersey Mr.. Will
liam Walter Phelps made gallant fight, and,
if he is defeated at all, is only dragged down
by the Administration. He runs from 1000
to LOO ahead of his ticket, and the
vote is so close that only the official
canvass can decide it. 1t now seems probable
that the majority cannot be over eight or ten
on either side. But for his plucky vote on
the Civil Rights bill, it is plain that Mr..
Phelps would have ridden out the typhOon in
triumph.
The defeat of Messrs. Ellis II. Roberts
and Walter l.. Sessions are the most noticeable
changes in this State. In the city the Demo-
Gratis and Liberal Republicans made clean
sweep, the three Administration candidates
receiving the worst and most deserved rebukes
being James O'Brien, Isaac Ii. Bailey, and
Charles S. Spencer. Mr. Frederick w. Sew
ard was handsomely elected to the Assembly,
as was also Mr.. Thomas G. Campbell, but the
general qualification over these results Will be
somewhat marred by the defeat OF Hamilton
Fish, jr., who made an excellent record last
Winter and ought to have been returned.
The Brooklyn Ring should have the good
sense to understand the meaning. OF the
returns in Kings County. 1t is clear that but
for the State ticket the local candidates
would have been overwhelmingly beaten. Mr..
Tilden carried the county by $4,000, being
nearly double the Democratic majority of past
wears. The head of the local ticket, Mr.. Pow
ell, fell fully 10000 behind; Winchester Brit
ton fell 5000 short, and the Charity
Commissioners about 1000 Either figure
more than represents the average majority
of the party for several years past.
This notifying result is exhibited, too, in
spite of the apathy and disgust of the Repub-
lcans 1t is not much of "vindcation,"
and the members Of the Ring are doubtless
sober enough to comprehend its exact sig
nlticance.
On a larger scale there is another Ring
which may find in yesterdays TRIBUNE
the returns which show it to be
without a constituency. With the excep-
ton of Secretary Belknap, we believe there
is not to-day in the Cabinet of President Grant
a single member whose own State supports the
Administration. That tells the whole story.
The popular reputation is complete and alb
solute