Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-11-06
UAILELUJAH.

John Kelly, the Tammany chieltain,
said in a speech made in Tammany Hall
last night, announcing to his followers
how the battle had gone: No are Thp-
ped all along the line" These words are
true whether only applied to the fight be-
tween Tammany and anti-Tammany in
New York, or extended in their appIIca
ton SO as to embrace the whole field.
The opposition to the republicans ARE
whipped all along the line" In The South
therepuoiicans expected nothing, hut At
the North, whore free elections are h 1t.
where every party is protected in the
right to discuss and organize and vote as
ii pleases. the republican party has made
large and important gains.
First OF all Ben Batter is beaten and
Talbot is elected Governor OF Ma>sachu-
sets. This is victory OF the better ele-
lneuts 10 politics over the worse, the latter
led by one of the ablest, most audaclous
and worst demagogues this country has
ever known. Butler will not b. the caa.
didate of the greenback or any other
party for President in 1880. Massachu-
sets Also gains one republ can Congress
man.
New Hampshire gains one Of the same
sort. and will have a republican governor
and legislature aud the latter will elect a
republican United States senator.
In Connecticut the republicans have
gained three congressman and Will have
the governor and a majority of the legis-
iure, and gain a United States senator.
New L gland will he stronger epublican
in the next House than 10 the present.
In the Middle States the republicans
make importan Mt gains in Congressmen.
The returns from The West, as far as re-
ceived appear well, but we must refer our
readers to our telegraphic columns for
the latest news 10 regard to them, as well
as TO the Southern States. 1t will require
S veral days to siit out the exact facts in
regard TO the South where there were iu-
dependents conservatives, or greenbackers
run. rbuL by whatever name the candidates
elected may have designated themselves,
we shall probably find them all voting
with the democrats in Congress. The re-
port from most of the Southern States is
that The elections were very quiet, and
well they may have been where men
were not allowed to speak or vote for
the republican cause, except at the peril
of their lives.
This much is plain: where the cleo
tions were held fairly and voters were
not inundated the republicans have gen
orally increased their strength and mani
tested more OF the earnestness add enrhu-
siasm of the party in its earlier days, than
for some time.
The result OF the elections OF yester-
day upon political parties will be of the
very highest importance. The National
Greenback party might as well withdraw
from the field, after the small show ii
made at the polls. The people of this
country are not in favor of fiat money
That delusion has had its day. They de-
clare by their votes that they want honest
money, resumption of specie payments
and the resumption of business by honest
methods. The greenback party will dis
solve like the fabric OF vision. In the
West. where it sprang into existence and
grew wonderfully for while, it is less in
strength than it was, and in the East it
has little power and soon will have less.
The contest in 1880 will be between
the two old parties and largely upon the
Southern question. This Campaign has
proved the professions Of Southern demo
Gratis in regard TO equal rights for all the
people of that section to be utterly false.
In the face of his fine promises to Presi-
dent Hayes. we have seen Wade Hamp-
ton organize his red-shirt assassins and by
terrorism strike down republican ma
iorily of 10000 in South Carolina. The
South is virtually solid for the democratic
party. though ten States at least in that
section have republican maiorites. The
North viii not submit to such a monstrous
wrong and outrage. Wnh Tammany,
that most efficient ally of the ex-Confed-
crates, overthfown as it was yesterday
and New York redeemed from the CON
troll Of the democracy, and gains all along
the republican line in the North there is
enough in the situation to kindIe the
brightest b,pes of republican national
victory in 1880.
Suffrage at the South.
Senator Blaine, in his speech at the Ac-
ademy OF Music IN Philadelphia, Saturday
evening. made The following import ,nt re
marks touching the question Of suffrage in