The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-11-18
ouR NEW YoRK LETTER.
NEW YORK, November, Ie, 1874.
THE ELECTIONS.

NEW YORK, November, 10, 1874.
THE ELECTIONS.
Did you hear anything drop out
your wayg Are you, dear Republican
reader, in receipt Of notes every hour
from your %jocular Democratic friends,
asking you how you like it? Does
your Democratic neighbor slap your
back with a vigor unknown to former
years, and remark, Things have
kind o. changed amt they?" That is
what is affecting the Republicans of
New York just now. A more hilari-
Gus, jolly set Of men than the Demoe-
racy are not in existence. The enor-
nous majority given to Democracy
in this city is very easily explained.
A vast number of Republicans-the
best and and hardest working Re-
.publicans formerly-voted deliber-
ately and in cool blood for Tiiden
and the Democratic ticket. They
did this, not because they have lost
their Republicanist0 and purpose to
90 into the Democratic party, but be-
cause they believe that the leadership
of the party has fallen into bad hands,
ard that a rebuke is necessary. One
solid, substantial merchant, who has
always given literally of bis time
and money to the Republican cause,
told me the day before election that
he should vote the straight Democrat
lie ticket. lm ne.
aYour reasen?v / asked.
"Because," was his reply, ait is
time to slap somebody in the face.
The good old party has gone astray.
We promised civil reform, and we
have not done a thing 10 that direc-
ton. We promised the settlement
of the affairs in the South, and snar-
chy reigns there. We pledged our
selves to purity in the administra-
ton of affairs, and loi Ben. Butler
runs the appointing power. Sim.
mons was made Collector Of the Port
of Boston against the protest of eve.
~ merchant of that city. Shepherd
is in favor in Washington, and, in
short, the buzzards, the c~ampfollow-
ers, the brigands of the party are too
close to headquarters. II am going
to vote q with the Democracy just
this once, as a note Of warning"
AS this man did, so did thousands
of others. The Republicans Of the
city felt that a change was necessary
shat within the party evils had
grown up that required q radical and
very severe treatment. And SO they
either voted the Democratic ticket, or
refused to vote at all.
The Democracy are as jubilant as
men can be. The Manhattan Club,
which is the headquarters of the lead
ers Of the organization, was, on Fri
day night, q scene Of revelry of the
widest possible kind. Champagne
flowed freely, and the more Demo
cratic Acknowledgements as COM
mon as water. Thurman, of Ohio
made a speech, as did TIlden and the
other magnates.
No wonder they feeljubiIant. They
see ahead of them q long vista of
good things. They see in this tri-
umph a Democratic President in 1876,
which gives unto them the unchecked
control ofthe city, the State, the
whole country. Through the minds
Of these men float visions ofpositions
Of trust unhampered, and of plumber
unlimited. They see in the immedi-
ate future q revival Of the glorious
days Of Tammany, when the great
city, bound hand aud foot, was in
their hands, bleeding money at every
pore. They see the revival Of the
Americus Club, with It's gang ofjolly
roysterers; Of the old Tweed times; in
brief, when every man who could
control City votes had bis hands in
the treasury. elbow deep. And by
the way.