Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1877-11-14
The Fall Elections.

OF this present month. fifteen States
have voted on general tickets of
more or less Importance. These
States extend from the exit enc East
to the far West, and embrace re.
mote points in the South. and may
therefore be presumed to cover every
phase Of political opinion.
Ten Of these fifteen States voted
for Hayes for President and FIVE for
Tlldcn. The first important fact
that strikes the obscrvant eye is
that the five States which cast their
votes for Tilden have now been car.
ricd for the Democrats, while the
Republicans have lost three and
perhaps four of those that were ear.
ried for HAYES. The five States
which went for Tildcn last fall, and
have now been carried by the Dem.
ocrats, are New York. New Jersey.
Maryland, Virginia and Mississippi.
The Democrats held their own in
these, wherever there was serious
contest, by maiorities which are
about the average in what are called
the off years.
The ten States that have voted
this fall for general tickets ami
which went for Hayes last wear by
overwhelming maioritics. are Cali.
tornia. Maine, Ohio. Iowa. Massa.
chuSctts, Pennsylvania. Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Kansas and Nebraska.
Three of these States have now Ger.
talnly been captured by the Demo.
Gratis, aud perhaps four, namely
California, Ohio and PENNSYLVANIA.
with Wisconsin rather in doubt,
though the chances are i'm favor jof
the Republicans. OF the six States
IN which the Republicans still main.
tain their control, they have carried
two this year by rcpudating the
Hayes Administration, while in two
OF the others they have not cot abso.
lutte maioritics but elect their tick |
cts by mere pluralitics.
These seem TO us 10 hc highly sig.
nlllcant features of the fall CAMPAIGN.
They are an emphatic and singing
verdict against the Fraudulent Adj. |
mllliStratlon Of Hayes and the policy
toward which there is such an ont. |
spoken revolt in all sections of the
country. These results. however. |
are not wholly owing to the deter. .
of the masses of the De.
to testify their adherence
OF the chlcanery, the duplicitv. the
dishonest practices and false prc.
fences whereby Hayes obtained his
lciectlvc title to the Presidency. but
Ihey are to some extent due to the
dissatisfaction and disgust which
large portions of the Republican
party feel toward him for having
abandoned and BETRAYED So many Of
The principles whcrcOn his suppor,.
FRS fought their battle in the last
residential campaign. But it is
sale To say that severe as this rebukc
Is, 1t would have been far more
and significant if portions
u ne ffcmocra;lr party had not sur.
'cndcrcd the solid ground whcrrou
hey should have fought their battle
his fall.
ne elections of this year Present
mother striking feature. We refer
o III" Unusual number of out>idn
actions which took the field. and
ne large vote thcy have cast. The
resent and probable future effect of
ms Widespread refusal to draw in
u" traces OF the two leading parties
l the country is worthy of tho
rave consideration of both Demo. ;
rats aud Republicans. Indeed. this
utSIdc vote has been so heavy that
lon@h the Democrats elected thcir
lckeiS IN California and Pcnnsyl.
anna, and the Republicans elected
hciIS III massachusetts, and prob
by III Wisconsin, it will pretty
citaiiifN turn .uUt when the canvass
completed that both parties are
! considerable minority in States
herein they have now What. unon
superficial view. seem to be vie.
Dr!es. 80, too, i'll Ohio, il we are
iGht IN oar recollection of the final
cures, the Democratic candidate
'r Governor barely obtained IA ma. t
'rity OF the aggregate vote. though l
c appeared to have beaten his lie.
ubllcan opponent by some $1,000.
We fancy 1t will prove to be very
luch the same in Minnesota when
@ get the complete returns from ,
he recent quadrilateral contest in
rat state. We all rccollect that il
'okrd on the surface as if the Re.
had swept Iowa by about
1000 majority, but when the out. o