New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-11-19
back the SORROW and destruction which 1t is
lust beginning to forget
THE PRESIDENTIAL OUTLOOK.


The papers are full of spcculations as to
what States each party can carry in the next
Presidential election, and what parties are
likely to be i'm the field. The most reckon on
fair contest between Republicans and
Democrats. Those who peer further into the
milestone foretell three or four tickets
in the field,-a regular Republican ticket with
Grant at its head on platform of hard
money, Cuba, and no Popery in the schools !;
possibly an anti-third term Republican ticket !;
certainly hard money Democratic ticket from
the East and probably an initiation Democratic
ticket from the West. 1t is argued that it
is to the interest of the Democrats to run
two tickets rather than have lukewarm sup
port of one; to draw out in this way every
possible vote and keep every possible state
from the Republicans; to throw the election
into the House, and there to settle the cur
rency fight among themselves, and elect the
man they can agree upon, without any fear or
Republican interference.
All this is to consider too curiOusly. Too
many things may happen this Winter to give
such speculatons any present value. AT the
present distance from the opening of the next
campaign, it is enough to observe that as
fields of the last one the improved con-
dition of the Republican party becomes every
where manifest. A year ago this party had so
completely lost the confidence of the men who
formerly sustained it, that they allowed
Congress to so Overwhelmingly into the
hands of its enemies. Now they are
satisfied with the effects of the lesson
which they then Taught. They have seen one
State convention after another plant its foot upon
the third term scheme, have seen one State
Legislature after another repudiate the more
odous of the Administration leaders, have
seen the Buffers, Carpenters, and the like sent
to the rear, and have made up their minds
that the managers have been taught by adj
versty. Meantime they have also seen the heads
of the Democrats turned by their temporary
success, have seen very large wing of them
openly committing themselves to the imitation
madness, and have in various ways had all
their old distrust of that party revived.
In this state of affairs it is clear that tho
Republicans can win the next Presidential
election if they will only continue to deserve
it, The people who have given them one VIC
tory after another and have kept the party In
power for fourteen years will be only too glad
to find themselves justified in sustaining 1t
again. What they require is merely that it
should again become and remain true to Its old
time principles.
In the late election, THE TRIBUNE. in sup
port of those principles, found itself heartily
working for the Republican candidates III Ohio
and Pennsylvania. In those States they stood
for honest money az against the infationists
Next year the people will demand of them that
they keep up the fight for hard money, that
they keep the peace with foreign nations, that
they continue to cast their influence for adj
ministrative reform, and that they do some
thing practical toward reducing the expenses
of the Government and taking the burdens oil
the people. What will the Republicans III
Congress and in the Cabinet do, this Winter,
to show that they can be fully trusted on these
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