The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-04
TuesdaY's Triumnh.

The results of Tuesdays elections are at
once extremely gratifying and utterly unex-
pected. We did expect that the Republicans
would carry Massachusetts,, Pennsylvania by
small majority, Kansas, Minnesota, and
possibly that the Democratic majority of 15,-
600 which Gov. Taylor had in Wisconsin in
1878 might be sponged cut if not reversed.
But few dared to express hope of carrying
New York, and those who did were laughed
at. The Tribune pronounced the chairman
of the Republican Committee simpleton for
declaring that such an event was barely pos
sible. 1t is great thing to overcome in an
off year majority Of $4,000, particularly
represented by man who was doing his ut
most to establish reputation for an honest
and able administration. The overturn in
New York Tuesday finds no parallel in the
Democratic successes of 1874.
But if the returns of Tuesdays elections
are source of qualification to the Republi-
cans, they have been like bulletins from an
irretrievably disastrous battle field. How
many hopes that had been cherished since
the corresponding Wednesday of November
1874, were blasted forever yesterday morn
ing. White-haired veterans who went out of
office 10 1861, for the year preceding Nov.
Sd, 1875, saw themselves all but at the public
crib, now behold all official station as forever
beyond their reach. OF all its defeats and
humiiations, the Democracy never expe-
rienced one so thoroughly crushing as that Of
last Tuesday. Greater defeats the party has
ever experienced but then it was prepared
for them. Tuesday, success in 1876 was as
sured; Wednesday, the wiser Democratic
leaders awoke to find that every hope had
perished. More keenly than ever mortals
realized it before, the eager Democratic lead
ers realize that there is but step between
that which is to them the bliss of heaven and
the other which is the woe of outer dark
ness.
Democratic leaders will tell us that Tues
days voting has nothing TO do with the con
test of next year. 1t will be in vain. The
tide has turned and turned against the De
mocracy. Angered at some faults of the
Republicans, the people, last year, by giving
several:states into Democratic control, gav'
Republican leaders fair warning of what
they might expect. The Democratic leader:
assumed that the reproof intended for Re
publicans was revolution in their favor
They imagined that prosperous days had re
turned. They assumed their old arrogan
airs and returned directly to their bad oil
ways. The people, if once half inclined t.
trust the old leaders with power, have re
coiled at the spectacle of the same old parti
sanship animated by the same old spirit tha
controlled the Democracy for twenty year
| preceding the war.
Tuesday the peoule said that they want n
further extension of Democratic power.
is not the party to which an Intelligent pee
| pie desire to entrust the welfare of the na
tion. 1t was this that all of the states mort
of Mason and Dixon's line, which voted O.
Tuesday, told the Democratic leaders-the
are not wanted.
AS for those states south Of Mason an
Dixon's line, it is sufficient to say that the
are falling into the hands of the old rulin
classes who are deadly hostile to the primo
pies of Republican government, and who's
spirit is SO well indicated by naming Jefferso
Davis for United States Senator from Miss
sirpi in connection with the announcemer
that for The first time since the rebellion tt
| State had gone Democratic,