The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-11-07
The Election Elsewhere.

The result of these elections, in their mn
tional aspect, is, that the democrats will
probably have n majority in the house Of
| representatives in the next congress.
In somc respects, the result s discoura-
ging. 1t is Encouraging TO have so large
detection from tho republican party US is in
dicatcd in the election of 80 many democra-
tic candidates instead of republican canii.
dates through the wrong voting Of rcpubli-
cans, or through their failure to vote ut NIL
1t is still more discournging to apprchend
the Inauguration Of democratic measures Of
Legislation md the defeat Of republican
IN easurcs of Legislation b. Il democratic
house OF representatives, and the Jar in tn c
whole machinery oflcsislation which will
inevitably follow from the want OF harmony
between democratic house of rcprcscna-
tivcs md u republican senate.
But we do not see that it is discouraging
otherwise. a democratic house OF rcprcscn
tatives cannot perfect any democratic meas
urcs of Legislation in the fac, of Il rcpublca
senate, to say nothing of a republican Prcsi-
| dent.
Nor is there anything in this result to in
dicatc any decline in the strength of actual
| rcpublicanism AS general thing the de-
feat of party nj an election is to be re gar
dcd rs the defeat of the principles or poll
cIes the party is supposed to represent, but
such is not necessarily tho case. Is it not
the case now: h. republican canlidotcs
for congress who have been Gcfcafc in tn is
| election so far we know, have not been dc.
fcatcd, i'll n single instance, because of their
rcPublicansm. Personal qucstions-qucs-
| tions of local Neutrality-suspicious. con-
ncctrd with measures of general legislation
| questions connected with the tinnnces c:
the country about which both parties arc
dividcd-thcsc were the questions which en-
tered most largely into the canvass inss every
State, and which i'll ,rcry State decided
| the canvass in favor Of the democratic can
'lidntcs. The question of actual rcpuhli-
into The canvass nt all.
Take, for instance, the case of General
| Butler He has been for ten years one Of
the most prominent republicans in the
country. He h,s been, II that tim, n re-
| publican leader in congress lie has bccn
identified, during thu, time, with every i'm
portant republican measure of lcgisluti on
that has come before it, Iut no opposition
was made to him, in the canvass, on the
score of his rcpublicansm. lie WAS opposed
OH the ground Of his alleged corrupt
| rr. fcssonal prac,iccs-of his alleged con
ncciion with currurt official action. and of
his alleged support of corrupt legislation;
| aud lie was defeated Hu he was by
another rel u,.'ican-anI 80 rcpublicansm
loses nothing hy his defeat.
Take, again, The case of Banks. lie
rSn against the regular republican can,li-
,lA'c was n republican. lie is himself u re
publican as pronounced az his opponent lie
| was one Of the founders Of tn. republican
party in lS5:'. H. was the frs: republican
spenker Of the nntonal house of representa-
tivcs. lie was the republican governor of
| Massachusetts for several years. lie WIS
one OF &c republican generals in the war
| lie was e republican mombcr OF congress
for seycrol consecutive terms up TO the close
ui iic ia>i and would have been u member
|
publican nomination in devotion to the can
didacy of Horace Greeley MS a better rcpub
licun than Gcneral Grant, an accepted n
liberal republican nomination in its stead
! lie was defeated then; but lie has succc,cl /
cd now hy Il majority OF 5,00D votes re
publ;can-m loses nothing by his su;cc,s
II may be that the republican defeats in
MI the Southern States have been brought
about, as General Toombs declares they
were brought abou, in Georgia, ''by bribery
and intimidation; by the iulcions lisribu-
tion of half dollars ard few we'll -di,.ribu-
ted scarcs." And it may be that tho, demo
cratic success thus Outlined in these States
may hc held in the future by the same
voters Of the Nosthcrrs Sutcs arc not sub
icct to the same disabilticsas the re cpubl-
can voters of the Southern ,tates When
they vote asans, republican "a nli R,:cs it
intimidation, but for some such reasons as
we have already mentioned Scattering
into the present canvass: aud whc, Mt the
next election, republican candi.l:rcs are
put into the field swho nre not objecu ,nblc
on the ground Of such questions, they turn
again to The republican organization to
labor as Of old.
And such, we are sure, will be the actin
Of those who, in the present canvass. have
suffered 80 many democratic candidates o