The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-11-12

Yet there are others to be

Victory has been tied, with all her gar
lands, On, to the standards of the Demo-
cracy by faithful hands which have success
fully planted those standards in the fore
front Of this battle. 1t is a victory for free
trade victory for hard money a victory
for home rule
The sign by which we have conquered
in the Empire State is the sign by which
we small conquer in the whole country.
Let the same victory graced standards now
be carried on to the storming of the White
House, and to the northern as we'll as the
southern wing of the Federal Capitol, and
two years hence the quatrebras of Ridi-
calism shall be forgotten in the havoc of its
| Waterloo,
And that loud Sabbath shake the spoiler-
down"
THE NEW YORK "REPUBLIC."
| (Administration) is very general in its re
marks 1t says =
When old Massachusetts deserts the Re
publican cause, defeating Governor, Talbot,
and clecting three or four Opposition Con
gressmen by heavy majorities-Mr. Butler
being left at home, and the old district of
Mr.. Dawes captured by an out and out
Dcmocrat-it would seem almost as useless
to deplore defeat in other States as to i'll
dulge in explanations over the election OF
MIR. Tilden as Governor of New York. The
heaviest calamity to the Republican party
and We only hope it may not prove a ma
tional misfortune-is the reversal, by yes
terday's results, of the majority and con-
troll of the next House Of Representatives
in Congress.
We need not feel discouraged, and should
remember that though financial disquietude
and factional irritations may have tcmpor.
arily invaded the succetsful record Of the
party, these influences are only temporary
and the party organization is still intact
and vigorous.
THE NEW YORK ''TRIBUNE" (Ind REP
See in the result direct blow at the ad
ministration. 1t says =
The verdict Of the country against Grant
ism is deliveren. There were only two
great questions before the peopole at thi:
election. One was whether the admins
trstion deserves the public confidence, an(
the other was whether it ought to be per
petuated. They have both been answere,
in the negative so loudly that even tn,
President must her the verdict.
1t * not anywhere mere Democratic
victory 1t is the protest of all classes o
citizens against an administration which
supported Jayne, which enriched Sanborn
which lobbed the Salary bill through Con
gross, which established its Kelloggs in the
South by perjured judges and misusec
bayonets, and tried to sustain them by Sian
dering an injured people, and which hat
just put itself forward with the insoen
claim for perpetuation of power. Th'
public had grown weary IF six years Of rul'
remarkable for nothing but laundering ant
greed. The demand for an indefinite ex
tension of such misrule was too much fol
good nature 1t needed the sharp answer
it has received. This is the end Of Grantism
1t is not the rivival of the rebellion nor tn,
definitive rehabilitation of the Democrat,
party. 1t simply eliminates Grantism from
politics as an impertinent factor, and leave
the two parties contronted-so event.,
matched that both must hereafter BE- care
ful to make no mistakes. The future be
longs to the one whe shall earn it.
THE NEW YORK EVENING POST (REP.)
We do no regard yesterdays result a
expressing popular opinion on conhic
concerning any of these three subjects, 0
which we heard so much during the can
vass-hard money, free trade, and ''hom
rule" We do not believe that if tn
Democratic and Republican platforms haC
been identical as to all three Of these ques
tions, as they were, very nearly, in respec
to the financial question, this morning re
turns would have read very differently
What then does the defeat mean?
We have called yesterday a Republican
defeat 1t would be great mistake to cal
it Democratic victory. The Democrats
as national party, offered the people onl
one thing. They had no policy to submit
They had no record on which they coul
ask the people to trust them. They ha
no carefully matured or coherent measure
for the future better than or materiall
different from Republican measures. The
; did offer one thing-a change. The pee
yle took the change they did not take th
Democrats. Whether they will take then
remains an open question. Upon chang
the people are resolved If the Republica
party have the wisdom and courage to per
feet the change, that party will still be tn
| strongest in the country. IF it have not
: the people will try the Democratic party
S not with much hope, indeed ; but they wi
: try it. Let not the Democrats, then, dc
D lude themselves into the belief that the
e have gained a Democratic victory. Th
: Republican defeat is simply their opportu
| nifty. The people have used them as an IL
strument to chastise the Republicans
Whether the instrument shall prove fur
1 ther useful or shall be cast aside.the mex
: two years will show.