Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-03-12
The Pennsylvania Local Elections.

The results of the recent local elec-
tions in Pennsylvania indicate that the
tidal wave" is returning. Its first
splash upon the shore comes with a rush
and roar that reminds one of the old
times of Republican victories in the
Keystone State. Philadelphia was car.
ried by clean sweep, and the Repubh-
cans score to their credit a majority of
IL, 900 in a vote of $4,000, sixteen Magis-
trates out of twenty-four, twenty-five
Select Councilmen out of twenty-nine,
fifty-tive Common Councilmen out of
seventy, not to mention School Directors
and Assessors in the same ratio. Lam
caster, which was about tie last year,
elects a Republican Mayor by Asa ma
jority, and the Republicans carry nearly
the entire Council and School Board, and
this in city which the Democrats usu-
ally carry. The old Democratic city of
Reading, which gave Democratic ma
jority ef 300 only four months ago,
turns a somersault and comes up smiling
with 300 Republican majority. Harris
burg, which has been a doubtful city for
long time, and gave q Democratic ma
jority last fall, returns Republican ma
jority of 500, and has broken up the
whole Democratic crowd by electing
seven out of nine Select Councilmen,
eighteen out of twenty-one Common
Councilmen, six out of nine School Di-
rectors, all of the city and nearly all of
the ward officers. 1t was a rout Of the
Bourbons, horse, foot and dragons. AL
legheny, which was about equally di-
vided last fall, elects a Republican
Council, and Pittsburgh also, which gave
a Democratic majority in nearly every
ward in November and changed the po-
| litical complexion of the Legislature
| The Pittsburgh Commercial reports that
the news from Newcastle, Meadville,
Erie, TItusville and Wilkesbarre, and
such county seats as Allentown, Easton,
Norristown, West Chester, Lebanon,
Pottsville and Tyrone, shows that the
Republicans of these and other cities
and towns were wide-awake and success
fully earnest in maintaining their local
supremacy.
Commenting on these results the Chi
cago Tribune of the ID says:
"The thousands of Republicans in
Pennsylvania who voted the Reform.
Democratic ticket last fall are now
heartily disguised at the broken prom
ises of the Reformers, and have returned
to their first love, and the result is the
| old Bourbons are experiencing a series
of reverses all over the State wherever
the people can get blow at them.
CAS- in Pennsylvania, so in the coun-
try at large. The spectacle of their old
friends coming into power again has en-
couraged the ex-rebels to manifest their
hatred of the Union Government The
furious speech of John Young Brown
was the index of what will take place at
the next session of Congress when the
| Southern Democrats, the majority of
whom were in the Confederate army or
held civil offices under the Confederate
| Government, get control of the Demo.
| cratic caucus, dictate the policy of the
House. and hold the power of the purse
and the sword. The people of Pennsyl-
vania have already grown disguised with
the pretenses of the Reformers, the shall
lowness of their promises, and their fail
ure to correct, or even try to correct, any
abuses, and, as they are the first to have
the opportunity, they have improved il
by electing Republicans again. The
Democratic reaction in Pennsylvania
was but short-lived. Their brief tenure
| of Office has shown that there is no hope
of reform from old Bourbons. The elec
ton in Pennsylvania is the first gun il
the campaign of 1875. We are soon tc
hear from New Hampshire and Connect
cut. 1t remains to be seen whether the
people of these two States will joir
hands with Pennsylvania in denouncins
this Bourbon humbug of reform"