Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-22
THE SPRING ELECTIONS.
Republican Losses and Democrati
Gains Everywhere.

Republican Losses and Democratic
Gains Everywhere.
From the Chicago Tribune, April II.
The st. Paul Press POSTMASTER, and
other servile-to-Grant newspaper or
gans In the West, are recommended to
drop their fgure-work on the Connecti-
cut election, and attend to what the
Hartford Comant Republican, says,
VIZ:
"The Butler papers - notably the
Bostoa IrdUeler-attempted for selfish
purposes to make out Republican gain
In the vote of Connecticut, and they
put it in this way: Democratic major
ity IN 1873, 3,273; IN 1874, osrly ], ,S97 2
Why not accept the fact as it is?
The Republican party in 1873 was in
majority of 1872, and this year it is
In minority of II, ,72l We fail to dis
cover any partisan victory in these fig-
ures for Republican rejoicings, and had
rather acknowledge the truth than ap-
pear ridiculous by making foolish mis-
calculations
In Connecticut no part of the politi-
cal situation is better understood than
that the Prohibition voters this year
1929, mostly drawn from the late Re
publican, are not out for a holiday
frolc. They are out for good.
The Albany papers argus and EUeR-
ing JOU7TiaD publish returns of the
election of Supervisors at the town
meetings throughout New York, and
the footings are:
1-lS7t---, --lSIs-Z -iS52--S-s
Opposition. So Opposition. Al Opposition. $40
Total. LOS Total. ,Ol4 Total. ,O1O
OPP.ma 90 Rep. maj. Y Rep. maj. go
OF the town elections in Michigan,
April 6, for Supervisor, etc, the De-
trOit Free Press says:
''The returns which have been re
ceiyed amply Justify us in saying that
the Opposition gains have been great,
and that as a result of the election
there viii be material changes in the
political complexion of many of the
Boards of Supervisors. There
has not been time in years ID the his
tory of Michigan when such revulsion
against the dominant party In State
and nation was exhibited at a spring
election as was shown on Monday"
The Wisconsin returns town cleo
tlons for County Boards of Supervi-
sors) come in decidedly anti-Republi-
can. The Madison Democrat says OF
the proper classification:
Whatever names may be employed,
there are but two great parties in the
nation. One the Republican party, led
by Grant, Butler, Morton, Carpenter
and Chandler; the other comprises all
the elements of society that repudiate
the above leadership and oppose the
men and measures of the party in pow
er. Everywhere, under what
ever name, the hosts of opposition are
marching under a common flag and
are contending for the same great prin-
ciple."
The spring elections IN Minnesota
and elsewhere move the st. Paul Dis
patch Republican, to say:
Taken as a whole the result of the
spring elections show a more marked
disapp .obation than has beenmanifest-
ed since the Republican party came
into power. =. The Dispatch
does not rely upon the spring elections
as a rule, for positive indications of the
drift of public sentiment, but when the
change is so general and almost uni.
versal as. the recent elections show
there is more than ordinary signif,
canoe in the result. 1t is the beginning
of the end"
The Eastern papers are, many o.
them, inclined to regard the local elec.
tions in the West as even more sugges
tive than the Republican disaster in
Connecticut. The Boston Journal (Re
publican) says:
Generally, it may be said that tn,
Republicans have lost ground.
These current Republican failures are
by no means the same thing as Demo
cratic reaction. - 1t is probably
true, however, that a continuance OF
Republican mismanagement or of Re.
publican discomfort or apathy, viii
make the present reverses of the party
permanent"
The Harrisburg pa Patriot says:
There are thousands of Republican,
whose tottering allegiance has beer
finally annihilated by the manifest cor.
ruption, dishonesty and incapacity tha
ride rampant in every department o
the National Administration.
This is the ominous tide that has car
ried the local elections, not only IL
Ohio, but in Michigan, Illinois, Wis
consin, Iowa and Minnesota. 1t is not
likely that for years to come, if ever
the Republican party VIII regain its as
tendency in these States. Ii
is tie manifestation of long withhelC
discomfort that has finally burst into
the impatience of action"
Want More Qualifications for Jurors
MONTREAL, April 21.-A large and in
flueatisl meeting was held here last nigh