The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-11-04
Comments Ofthe Leading Papers
ON the Elections.

The fast mail last night brought US the
New York papers Of the morning with
their various comments on Tuesdays
elections. The Herald says that the re-
suit indicates that "the Republicans con.
troll States enough to enable them to elect
the next President, with the aid Of New
York, and the result Of yesterdays voting
Is not such as to take New York out Of
the list OF debatableStates next year. The
Presidential election will be a more equal
and far more doubtful contest than II
the Democratic party had continued to
hold all the ground it gained in 1874"
The Tribune says that "all late Re.
publican triumphs have been due to
Democratic iollies." 1t further says that
"The country will watch the next
House to see how much Democrats have
learned. Ii years OF defeat have not
taught them tha: it isalways expedient to
do what is right, iflong Punishment from
power has not taught them that the peo-
pie will not trust party which does not
maniully serve the interests Of the peo.
pie, II the recent defeat Of inaatiOnists
has not taught Democrats that they cannot
afford to go into the next Presidential
campaign with even the faintest suspicion
Of intent to initiate the currency and repu.
diatO solemn obligations Of the nation,
they will deserve defeat, and will be
very likely to get what they deserve.
The World Dem does not admit de.
feat in New York, and has nothing what
ever to say about the result in Pcnnsyl-
vania, Wisconsin, or Minnesota, and very
little about Massachusetts. Speaking Of
New York it says that
"The reduced Democratic majorities
along the line Of the Canals plainly dis.
close the immense, but thank God the
defeated activity Of the robbers OF the
Canal Ring. Buffalo, where dozen Ca.
nal Ring men OF both parties have been
COllared and are in danger Of justiCe;
Rochester, the home Of the Lords; Syra.
Cusc, the headquarters OF the Ring and
the home Of the Beldens, OF Denison and Of
Gale; Albany, where the yultures gather
and arc reinforced by the men who have
grown rich on the plumber Of the new
CapitOl-from all these cities the returns
though unusually late and defective, ,abun-
dainty show the energy Of desperation
which the Canal Ring has contributed to
its alliance with the Republican party,
itself aroused to the last supreme effort
for life.
The New York Times (Rep,) speaks Of
the result in that State as follows:
"Eilher the sixty thousand Republican
voters who stayed at home and allowed
Gov. Dix to be beaten last November
have come to the polls this year and voted
the party ticket, or thirty thousand Of the
people who voted for Gov. Tilden last
year have changed their minds about the
beauties Of Democratic REFORM" and
have resolved that II Is very safe thing
to have the representatives Of one party
in the State administration watching
those Of the other. Probably u correct
solution Of the change in the popular
vote will be found by taking into account
both these influences, viz, by allowing for
n certain proportion Of Democratic NAL.
contents, who have either not voted at all
or who have voted against their State
ticket, and by taking account Of the Re.
publican voters who returned to their
party allegiance this year, as we'll as Of
still larger body who have thought il
worth while to claim the franchise which
they were too apatheticto to llse In 1874"
The Cincinnati Commercial (lndepend.
ent) of yesterday, speaks Of the result in
New York and Pennsylvania as follows
"Governor Tildcn seems 10 have been
attempting in New York to do the people
real service, but his warfare with the
rings has had something Of incongruity
in ia aspect. Ele probably raised up
more enemies among the canal robbers
than he secured friends outside the par.
ty, which he has for time had in his
pocket. lie may have been great re.
former, but there was sincere distrust OF
him as q whisperer who meant intrigue
rather than business.
"The elimination Of GrantiSm from the
Republican party in the Ohio campaign,
and winning the battle here against the
innationists, have had an influence in the
great Middle States exceeding all CalCu-
lations. The Republican victory in
Pennsylvania Is the echo Of Ohio, and
the hard.money platform of the DeInoc.
racy in New York was not sufficient to
remove the popular distrust Of the party
~ unsound on the great questions OF
public credit and finance, or 10 check the
disposition Of the intelligent citizens who
do not belong to either party organization
to trust the Rcpublicans-with Grant
passing away--rnther than the Demo.
crats, who have been claiming the coun-
try with the air Of conquerors, and who
have no fixed principles applicable to
current affairs, and capacity for devil
ment beyond measurement"