Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-02-07

as expressed IN their ordinary modes
of choice.
The one living question during the
late campaign was the Administration.
The opposition to it was on the grounds
that its discharge OF its administrative
duties had been failure; that its man.
agcment of finance, revenue, currency,
taxation and civil service was either
incompetent or mis-directed that its
long and almost unchecked hold of
power had engendered in it corrup.
tons, which, breaking out sporadical-
ly in such cases MS those Of Belknap,
Babcock, Schenck, and Delano, and
the other robbers, were proofs OF deep
rottenness that the system Of force
and fraud which it inaugurated in the
South was keeping alive cruel resent
ments and doing grevious wrong to
the whole nation. This was the ar
raignment and should the Tripartte-
Tribunal find the administration en-.
dorsed by the election Of Hayes, still it
will have been done by such mere
scratch that it will put the leaders on
their best behavior The Republican
party was on its trial and the Jury
stood six to six.
As early as 1870 the DRIFT of public
opinion against the dominant party
made itself apparent and from that
time steadily increased. By 1872 it
had become formidable, even in the
Republican party itself, among its ia
theirs and champions. The opposition
came to head last year when the
power Of the Republican party was to
be renewed, if possible. The move
ment attached itself to the Democratic
party as the ole existing compact or.
ganization capable Of an effective as
sault; bat that party can not claim
cridit for the shaking up given to its
opponents 1t embraced much wider
following than that Of that party, a
following that would not call itself
Democratic A proficient mathema.
tician has been at work on the figures
and they show some very interesting
results. The figures contrasting the
Administrations highest vote, that OF
1872, with that given it at the last
election, and the highest Democratic,
1864 and 1872, show that the opposi.
tion or Democratic party has been
growing with prodigious velocity while
the Republican or Administration par
ty has decreased in some States, has
barely maintained itself in others, and
in its most favored localities has lag
ged far behind its opponents. This is
true of the thirty.eight States except
some of the Western States. In the
New England States the aggregate
vo;e was $4,000 in round numbers,
an aggregate increase Of 10000, of
which the Democrats secured 10000.
So, in the land Of steady habits the
Democratic nucleus has rolled up at
the rate of As in 100, while the Rcpub.
lican has gathered only in the proper
ton Of II to 100 The friends of Mr..
Blaine, in Maine, have crept along at
the rate of 7 per cent, their adversa-
ries have made III per cent. In Yer.
mont the Republicans have G, the Dem
ocrats 6s per cent increase, In Maine,
New Hampshire and Rhode Island,
the Democratic increase almost, not
quite, doubles the Republican increase.
Here 1t must be remembered, popula-
ton does not increase so rapidly as at
the West, but at the rate OF progress
since 1872, before tho next Presiden.
tial contest the Democrats will have
four Of those six New England States
by majority Of 10000. In the nine
great industrial and manufacturing
States of the Northern belt, from the
Hudson to the Mississippi the aggre.
gate increased vote was 10000, OF
which 47l,0o0 was Democratic,
and COCOON Republican. Not one
OF those States was Democratic
in 1872, but four, New Jersey,
j New York, Indiana, and West vir.
n ginia, are largely 80 now. At the
c same rate OF increase in all, every one
3 will be Democratic before 1880. In
the aggregate vote of 100000 given by
the States Of the far West, beyond the
Mississippi the increase has been 23i,
900, of which 100000 wore won by the
opposition and $4,000 by the Admin.
istration. But even there the dispro.
portion in the rate of increase was
kept up, for it was still 40 per cent, on
&. the Democratic and 36 per cent on the
Republican vote. If the same relative
, increase is maintained, the Democrats
will have three of those States, with a
good prospect for two Others, at the
next Presidential contest. In the Dor.
der States the increase has been 40 per
cent. Democratic and 81 per cent Re-
, publican. In the eight Southern States
the Democrats have gained $4,000
and the Republicans 10000
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THE Boon FIGHr.-rhe Philadel.
phia Times says "a formidable move.
ment is beng organized 10 attempt the
passage Of bill, the practical effect OF