New-York tribune., 1874-11-07

only one, Secretary BristOw. being selected
from State which has been Democratic
for generation. To-day five of these
party chiefs find themselves in the predica-
ment of men who are without honor In
their own country, dsowned by the people
they claimed to represent, and rebuked by
voice that must ring in the dullest ears MT.
Fish's State gave almost as heavy majority
against Grant and all his works as two
years ago it gave for him under the
seductive influence Of money and patron
age. That ancient and genial mariner,
Secretary Robson, whose timbcrs must
have been terribly shivered by the tidal
wave, sees his State swept out of his grasp by
a majority nearly double what the most san
guine Democrats dared to hope for at the
time of their Convention, and his visions OF
peaceful mooring in the Senate rudely blown
away. Columbus Delano, who of all the Cab
met officers seems nearest the Presidential
heart, finds his State completely over
turned and himself overturned with 1t.
The Postmaster General was without
Republican majority behind him when
he received his portfolio, and there
is now still smaller prospect OF
his obtaining one. Attorney General VIII
hams, who owes his position more to the
personal preference of the President than to
any merit or representative character OF his
own, has been for years without State at
his back, and was taken into the Cabinet be-
cause he had nowhere else to go. OF this ar
ray of brigadeless brigadiers, Secretary Bel
KNAPP alone comes from an Administration
-, -, ifr
military cOusinship being the sole cause OF bis
political advancement. This Is sorry crowd
of political cripplos to form the van Of great
party.
The carnage on all sides is terrific. In the
Senate, every member of the Presidents faith
full staff has had his party legs shot from un-
der him. Mr.. Roscoe Conkling, whose burning
elOquence, it was thought, would suffice to
send prairie flame from Westchester to st.
Lawrence, finds the wind blowing the wrong
way and the fire sweeping not only his State
but his District, even his townsman, Ellis H.
Roberts, going down with all the rest of the
Senator's candidates; while the reputed "dead
"and buried' FentOn carries his District for
Liberal Republican. Carpenter, provided with
a fresh "charakther" by the President in place
" "vindicatedn by the Senate, was long ago re-
pudlated by the decent sentiment of his
State aAd party. Whether this sentiment
will control the Legislature, remains to be
seen; but there is great reason to believe that
Wisconsin will no longer be disgraced in the
Senate by man who is as worthless as he is
brilliant. This deserved rebuke will be shared
by his colleague, Senator Howe, who has shown
himself much more partisan and no less bit
ter. Morton, Conklings rival in ministering
to the slightest caprice of a military Execu-
tive, gets defeat at home for his pains, re-
verse from which no antl-Grant protestatlons
of his organ could save him. Logan, blatant
Granite and InhatiOnist, receives the repri-
mand which all GRANTEES and Imitation
lists deserve. And the chief of the rotten
borough Senators, too, may now see clearly
the date of their last appearance on
the National stage. Spencer, bar-roOm poll
tican; Clayton, border rufhan; and Dorsey,
partner of Clayton, are weighed and found
wanting. OF the more respectable attaches of
the White House-those who have observed
Loyalty the ordinances of the Administration,
but have kept their linen cean-the tale is
almost as bloody. Sherman of Ohio, Freling-
huysen of New Jersey, Oglesby of Illinois, and
Boutwell, and Washburn of Massachusetts-all
these may not be killed, but they must be
classed among the badly wounded.
1t was well, on the whole, that the full
extent of the revolution did not show itself in
the light of Wednesday morning. To know
that the High Priest of Grantsm, Benjamin
+. Butler, was beaten absolutely out of exist
ence, was enough to give every patriot real
appetite for his Thanksgiving dinner; but to
learn, as we have since learned, that Penn
sylvania has refused to register the DEGREES of
Simon Cameron, and that Michigan has come
so near achieving her salvation that the re-
election of Zachar1ah Chandler may fairly be
classed as very doubtful, is almost too good
news to digest all at once. Cameron, whose
gray hairs have brought him neither repent
ance nor honor, has debauched the politics o.
his State until their corruption and venality
have made her a kissing and by-word
to the English-speaking world. He will not
now require the Legislature to send his son
Don Cameron to the Senate as his colleague.
Chandler, whose reeling figure has strad-
died the State of Michigan for nearly a
would be at last, it was hoped,
by one supreme effort dislodged. His
dismissal from the Senate of the United
States would clear the air of no small pro-
portion of demagogism, partisan malice,
unblushing effrontery, and offensive morals.
Whether these men will ever again buy
or force favors from Legislatures no one
can say; but the seal of the popular
condemnation has been set upon them once
and for all. They may not be ruined, but
they are sternly rebuked. Added to this
achievement, the defeat of Butler, the Presi-