The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-08-12
First Gun for Tilden
100000 Majority in Alabama
Immense Democratic Gains
Kentucky Overwhelmingly Democratic
MortOn's Bloody Shirt Won't Win,
BOYS, DO YOU HEAR THAT 2"


on Monday. The returns show Demo
cratic gains everywhere, and the majority
for Houston for Governor is estimated al
10000 The Congressional delegation
will stand Democrats to ! Republican
a Democratic gain of one. Many counties
heretofore Republican send Democrats to
the Legislature, and that body will be
largely Democratic The election passed
off quietly, no disturbance in any locality
being reported.
County elections were held on Monday
in Kentucky. All the counties reported
show Democratic majorities, except Boyd
In the Congressional election in the
Louisville District, Henry Watterson
Democrat, was elected by an overwhelming
majority, over Heady, Independent. Hea,
dyr eceived only few scattering votes
Henry Clay was defeated for Prosecuting
Attorney by few votes.
Referring to the result OF the Alabama
election the New York Tribune says
"No doubt this will cause great joy in the
Democratic camp, since they will regard
it as in some measure foreshadowing the
course of the Southern States in the pres.
idential election"
A Washington despatch to the Balti.
more Sun makes the following reference
to Southern politics The result of the
election in Alabama is regarded here as
having very important bearing upon the
presidential canvass. Since reconstruc
ton Alabama has voted Republican us Of
ten if not oftener than Democratic, and
in close calculations it has generally been
set down as doubtful State. The very
large majority by which it elects the Dem
ocratic ticket consequently possesses great
significance, and will exert a remarkable
influence upon the other States Of the
South which have also been admitted to
be somewhat doubtful. The Republicans
admit privately to-day that Louisiana,
Mississippi and Florida will now certainly
follow the example of Alabama and give
Democratic majorities in November, un-
less some scheme eau can be Matched to
prevent it. 1t is not certain but what this
effort will be made, as it is said that GER
tain prominent Republicans are busy in
trying to get up plan to obtain full con-
troll of those States. The proposition
made by Senator Boutwell, in his report to
territorialize Mississippi is one of the plans
which has been thought of, but there does
not seem any way by which the President
and Senate can do this without consent Of
of the House of Representatives. Some
of the more sagacious Republicans also
said to-day that such measure would be
very unpopular and odous among the
people of the North, it would not do to
attempt it. 1t is very evident that the
Republicans are disheartened by the signs
of the times.
The Philadelphia Times, independent
Republican, makes the following sportivc
allusion to the Alabama and Kentucky
elections:
Alabama gets more and more one-sided
like the handle of u jug, as the full returns
come in. Nearly unanimous Senate,
four.ffths of the House, and nearly sixty
out of sixty-five counties carried by the
Democrats, with the silver wings Of peace
spread over both the pale and the sable
faces, the administration programme for
the South must be suddenly and boldly
remodeled, or the whole country may 90
to the demnition bow-wows Nothing but
an immediate peace with Sitting Bull by
liberal payment to him and his braves
for the Custer butchery, and the prompt
transfer of the whole army and a full
complement Of Calling guns, will give
Hayes more than township here and
there in the South; and, what is worse,
the North doesn't look much more prom.
Using. There must be prompt peace with
Sitting Bull and Rain.in-the-Face, and
prompt war in the South, whether any
body provokes it or not, to meet the pres
ent emergency. Don Cameron must look
to his scalp.
The Kentucky election looks as if Hayes
was running there only in spots, and they
few and far between. Bristowism is either
enfeebled greatly by the heated term or it
doesn't mix well with Hayesism, and the
county elections in the home of Clay pre-.
sent the appearance of huge assortment
of Democratic landslides. Even the sable
brethren couldn't be restrained from vo-
ting for Harry Watterson, and Bourbon
county, with its lustrous and luscious
Democratic memories, more than main
tains its Democratic majority, The Wings
of oldeu times, who worshiped Harry Of
the West" will pause to drop tear for
saudi lang syne" when they read that
"Henry Clay was defeated for District At.
torney by few votes" and Curtis and
Schurz will doubtless rush into each others
embrace and simultaneously fling out the
pertinent inquiry Where is civil reform2
All this in Kentucky, and not so much as
the sound Of shotgun from the Cum
bcrand Mountains to the waters of the
Mississippi. Sadly will Boutwell,, the
patentee of the latest improvement on
Williams original outrage mill, exclaim :;
"'Tis true, It's pityp
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