The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-24

says livery Administration loses before
the people in the middle Of its term.
There were special reasons why this one
should. The dissatisfaction, even among
the more jealous Republicans, has been |
continuously increasing for now nearly
eighteen months. Credit Mohilicr was
hardly out Of the way till the Salary Grab
came. Then Jayne and Sanboen made their
appearance. Simmons followed promptly,
and after him came Kellogg and Carpen-
ter. A multitude of other and almost
equally exasporating occurrences have in
creased the discomfort
Then party ties have been growing looser
for year or two. Men have learned to
bolt easily, aud to accept unsatisfactory
caucus nominations with very i'll grace.
The ponic has been followed BY hard
times. Furnaces have blown out, Man
ufaeturies have stopped. Wages have
fallen. Thousands Of laborers can find no
work at any wages. II always happens
that such condition makes heavily against
the party in power. Some think the Gov
ernment directly responsible for their
misfortunes; all think that something Is
wrong and they want change.
Local causes have swelled the Admins
tration disasters. The temperance cru
SADIE aroused an unusual feeling, and the
adoption of prohibitory PLANK in the Re-
publican platform in Ohio cost them far
more in the cities than they gained in the
country
But however clearly the result in each
case may be traced to some local cause,
the important fact remains that the effect
is national Tildcn is ten thousand votes
stronger to-day in New York by reason Of
Tuesdays work at the West, and the poll
ticians may as well take that fact into all
subsequent calculations
view OF GREAT REPUBLICAN jour
NAL-THE PHILosoPHY oPTHE OCTOBER
ELEcrIoNs.-Th New York Times, Re
publican says There is great deal Of
vague apprehension and discomfort in the
public mind With lively sense Of the
situation, there is no clear conception Of
the remedy This condition of public
feeling is unfavorable to the party in
power 1t produces critical temper and
fault-fnding more or less Just Things
which in good times" would 90 un noticed
are pounced upon and growled over. 1t
may be party treason, but we are bound
to say that the Republican party is not
prepared so wen as it might be to with
stand the operation Of this mood Of the
public. There are too many points on
which the public, if so disposed, can fasten
criticism. The party has taken good
deal Of credit to itself Of late for kicking
out its seoundrels and exposing the mis-
deeds that have been done in its name,
and the credit has not been undeserved.
But the operation Is not one that inspires
confidence. The cantankerous and obsti-
nate public is inclined to think that where
such things are brought to the surface
there is more of the same sort underneath.
This impression could only be removed by
making the process of publication SO
through that no one could question its
complete efficacy. That we have hardly
done. The Credit Mobilier business drove
Patterson out Of public life, but no one
connected with that shameful chapter ia
our political history suffered seriously from
the action of Congress in regard to it.
The back pay bill was repealed, but in
half-hearted way. The Sanborn contract
law was repealed, but it took change in
tho Cabinet to upset the official actors in
the scandal, and Butler, the deus er-
ntaehhld Of the whole dirty business, has
received no effective damper on his AFRO
| giant pretensions as a party leader.
Then, the condition Of the South is not
winning Republican votes. No enc doubts
that the President did his duty in putting
down the White Leaguers in New Orleans
last month; but the fact that, nine years
after the surrender at APPROXIMATION, such q
duty dovolved on the President. is not
calculated to excite enthusiasm for the
party that has been in power during that
period. The party leaders have felt it
necessary to circulate reports concerning
outrages in the South, some Of which were
obviously not to be relied on. They
undoubtedly expected to bring into prom
incnco the depravity Of the Democrats;
but the public seems to have thought that,
however depraved the Democrats may
have been, the existence Of this alleged
''reign Of terror" in the South was some
thing for which the Republicans were
not wholly irresponsible. And it is not
impossible that u portion Of the people of
Ohio are foolish enough to believe General
Grants personal partisans in their asser-
tons regarding third term, and so far as
they do believe these, they are not en-
thusiastic over them,
The Next CoSGREss. The Baltimore A.
mericaR of October I6, says I'm view Of the
extraordinary gains made by the Democrats
in Ohio and Indiana, Democratic majority
in the next House Of Representatives is within
the range of possibility. The political com.
plexion Of the Senate is fixed for the next
four years, but the Democratic minority will
be largely reinforced by accessions from the
South. The Senate now stands--Republi-
cans, 90; Democrats, 10, and Liberals, g.
Tennessee will send Democrat to take the
place Of Senator Brownlow. Mr.. Flanagan. Of
Texas, will have Democratic successor, as
will also Mr.. Foreman, Of West Virginia
Colonel Withers has already been elected 10
the seat now occupied by Mr. Lewis, Of Viz.
ginia, and the Connecticut Legislature has
designated Mr.. Eaton as the successor of Mr..
buckingham. The term Of Mr.. Robertson, Of
South Carolina, expires in 1875, but he will
be undoubtedly succeeded by a Republican.
Should there be no further changes tho SEN
ate will Republicans, As; Democrats,
"a, and Liberals, 8.
1.-THE Republicans do not carry New York
at the ensuing election the liberals will lose
Mr.. Fenton, and his seat will be filed with an
orthodox Democrat. Senator SCOTS term
expires on the Sd Of March, 1876, but VIC do
not think il probable that he will be succeed
ed BY Democrat. Conceding, however, that
both New York and Pennsylvania should elect
q majority Of Democrats TO their respective
Legislatures, and that Indiana has done the
same, the Republican representation in the
Senate viii be reduced to ~, and the Demo.
cratic representation increased to q. Mis-
sour win send Democrat to relieve Mr..
Sehurz from further duty as Liberal
Senator, and Nebraska win elect a straiqht-
out Republican to the place now filed BY Mr..
Upton. This will give the Republicans 4s
Senators and the Democrats %. From this
brief exhibitit viii be seen that under no. cir.
cumstances eau the Democrats have more