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

| other States.
The result of these elections, in their M
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 ID discoura-
ging. 1t is Encouraging to have so large u
DETECTION from tho republican party as is in
dicntcd in the election Of 80 many dcmocra-
tic candidates instcud Of republican cnnii.
dates through the wrong voting Of rcpubli-
cnns, or through their failure to vote ut all
1t is bill more discournging TO npprchend
| the Inauguration of democratic measures Of
Legislation and the defeat Of republican
IN easurcs of Legislation by a democratic
house of representatives, and the Jar i'll tn c
whole machinery oflcsislation which will
inevitably follow from the want OF harmony
between democratic house of rcprcscna-
tivcs and u republican senate.
But we do not see TINT it is discouraging
| otherwise. a democratic house of rcprcscn
tatives cannot perfect any democ ratio meas
urcs of Legislation in the fac, ofn rcpub!ica
senate to say nothing of a republican Prcsi-
! dent
Nor is there anything in this result to in
dicntc any decline in the strength of actual
rcpublicanism. AS n general thing. the de-
| feat Of party Mt m election is to be re gar
dcd as the defeat of the principles or poll
cics .r party is supposed to represent, bat
such is not necessarily the case. Is it not
| the case now: Ih: republican candidates
| or ylo bry h,n Ia, 70 | "a i
election 80 far We know, have not been dc
fcatcd, i'll single instance, because of their
| rcpublicanism. Personal qucstons-ques-
tions of "a local neutrality-suspicious. con-
ncctrd with measures of general legislation
questions connected with the finances Of
the country about which both parties arc
dividcd--thcsc were tho questions which en-
tered most largely into the canvass ins every
State, and which III every State decided
the canvass i'll favor Of the democratic can
didntcs. The question of actual rcpubli-
cnnfsm, one way or the other, Iii l not cnt CIR
into the canvass at all.
| Take, for instance, thc case of General
Butler. He has been, for ten years, one of
The most prominent republicans in the
country. lie h,s been, II that tim, n re-
publican leader in rrc1s II has been
! identified, during Tint time with every i'm
| portani republican measure of legislation
That has come before it. Eut no opposition
was made to him, in the canvass on the
scare of his republican ism. lie WAS opposed
OIL the ground OF his alleged corrupt
| rr. fcss:onal prac'ccs--of his allie god con
ncclion with currupt official action. and of
aud he defeated. But he was by
another relu"'ican--anl 80 rcrublicanism
Loses nothing Ivy hi, defeat.
Tnke, nsain, the case OF Banks. He
ron against the regular republican can,l-
date Was republ IAN lie is himself II re
publican as pronounced az his opponent. lie
was one Of the founders of tn. republican
| party III lS"1. H. was the frs: republican
| speaker Of the national house of representa-
| tivcs. lie WAS the republican governor OF
Massachusetts for several years. lie WAS
one OF &c republican generals in the war.
| lie was q republican mombcr OF congress
for seycrol consecutive terms ur 10 the close
Il
OF :lic present if he had no. declined III c re-
, publican nomination in devotion to the can
didacy of Horace Greeley rs better repub-
| licnn than General Grant, anil accepted
liberal Republican nomination in its stead
lie was defeated then; but he has succc-cl-
cd now by n majority of 5,00a votes re
rubl:canism loses nothing by his success.
1t may be tina, the republican defeats in
all the Southern States have been brou ght
about, rs General Toombs declares they
were brought aboui in Georgia, '.by bribery
and intimidation; by the ju,licious dis.ribu-
lon OF half dollars and few well -dis,ribu-
ted scnrcs." And it may be that The demo
cratic success thus obhincd in these States
may DC held in the future by the same
democratic Influences. Tut the republican
voters of the No.thcris SNtcs are not sub
icct to the same disabili,icaas the republi-
can voters of the Southern Mates When
they vote against republican gaalli R,;cs it
is not by reason of democratic hribery and
| intimidation, but for some such reasons rs
we have already mentioned rs entering
into the present canvass; and whc:. ut the
next election. republican candidates are
put into the field iwho are not ohjccti nablc
on the ground of such questions, they turn
again TO he republican organizatin to
labor Of old.
And such, we nrc smre, will be the actin
Of those who, in the present canvass, havS
suffered so many democratic candidates To-