New-York tribune., 1874-12-05

In the great States Of Illinois and Indiana
the Administration vote actually falls off. and
in Iowa it increases One-sixth instead of one
half as it should have done. In Minnesota
there is an increase, corresponding to the
growth of population. And whyf Because,
fOrsooth, Salary -Grabber Dunnell and the
celebrated Mr. King were running for Con-
gress and made it "lively for the boys" In
Missouri there is an increase, but it is owing to
the fact that the Administration party made
no nominations at all, while the independent
press supported reform movement against
the reactiOnary Democracy. Throwing out
Missouri, as we may properly do, the Admin
istration vote of the four other States is not
as large as the Republican vote was eight
years ago, when the voters were only two
thirds of their present number. The State of
Illinois, which shows o falling off of forty
thousand, gave the 203045 votes she cast in
1866 on no greater provOcaton and for no
better purpose than the election of John a.
Logan as Congressman at Large.
Let us now see how it is with the so-called
Democracy. In three out of the five States
named the party has not even an existence,
and did not enter the field with State
ticket! Anti-MOnopoly, Peoples Granger
Independent Reform, and such like names
were appropriated in these States by the op-
position to the party in power, but there was
no agreement in the principles of these sew
eral organizations with each other or with
the Bourbons of Indiana and Missouri.
The voters who have gone into re-
tirement with the Republican party cannot
be discovered under either or all of the
strange banners of tho Opposition factions,
In Indiana and Missouri We had something
like tho old mOss-covered Bourbon party of
the war period. In Indiana the vote of the
party was 155,3o9 in 1868 and 1S2,15i in 1874
not equal to One-half the natural increase in
the numbers of those who voted that way in
1865. In Missouri we can make no comparison
franchised at that time; but the aggregate
vote of the Democratic Governor just elected
is less than that received by Coy. WOodsOn
two years ago by over seven thousand, and
his majority only two thousand greater. In
Illinois, the strongest of the two parties which
opposed the Administration is nearly identical
in its principles and the elements of which it
is composed with that which opposed the
Democrats in Missouri. Yet both the Oppo-
sition parties in Illinois, combined in support
of their common candidate for Superintendent
of Public Instruction, did not throw as many
votes as Seymour obtained in 1868, when
Grants majority was SLIGO! Tidal wave, in
deed! The Administration party has not
been drowned, like Pharaoh and his
hosts, in tidal wave, but asphyxated
in vacuum. In Minnesota, where the "cO-
"hesive power of public plunder" appears to
have been of uncommon efficacy, the Anti
Monopolists and Anti-Salary Grabbers are
In minority of 5,56j on the vote for Con-
gressmen. while last year they were beaten
only $50 in the race for Governor. In Iowa
also they are beaten worse than they were
last year and have received fewer votes, as
considering the character of the platform they
put forth. they deserved. Do VIC not use
words rightly when we call these things pOlt-
ico oh