Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1878-11-28

elected President by : majority "a
eighteen eleclofal votes and perma-
nentiy retained The House against one
of The str0nessl and most proaigaie
combinations ever made. Contrast for
edlfcali1p TIE above details with the
Insies'I Of sen he Democrats have
now fhirfy sir. and 81 the next session
viii have foFty-ihree members Of the
Senate. A clear rnsjorify OF ten
Instead Of sixty-seven members Of
the House, or less than one-third, we
have nov majority Of nineteen, and
have already scared . majority Of from
seven to nine in the next House over
all.
That instead OF ten Democratic gov
errors oi States there are now twenty
four. o. neaEl8 two-thirds Of the whole
number.
That our soie has increased from
z. 800. 900 10 1872 10 1. 295 900 IN 1875.
and from . minority Of over 700, 600 to
= clear majority Of nearly 900, 600.
Because New York has been LOST as
the natural fasnIt Of disgraceful local
quarrel, because for lack Of organization
and ordinary party sense, the uniformly
Democratic Slales Of New Jersey and
ConnectlcuE have been. taken away
from ms BY slsall plurnlities, j. there any
good reason &c repinfng.
Were we 90 told that Independent.
ism and fEa1eessm would break the
South into III ffsgmentss
And haz e not learned that while
other 81 nheen frivolous or
faiihiess, Tie soath has become more
solidly Democratic than ever before
With their one hundred and thirty
eight electoral votes to be relied upon
Cor a Democratic candidate in 1880, and
with an equal absolute certainty OF the
eighteen votes Of Indiana and Oregon,
but tweniy-nine are wanting to secure
the requisite number, with Democrat
ic Senate md House 10 prevent them
from beingstolen by any future Hayeses.
Grants, Mortons or Bradleys. And for
the number lacking. who is there to say
that the Democrats have not the best
chance fer the thirty-seven votes OF
Connecticut, Ohio and New jersey
leaving ont of consideration New York.
with its sure Democratic majority when
ever freed from the domination Of quar-
relsome leaders-or an equal show for
the forty votes Of Illinois Nevada, Cal
ifornia and Wisconsin
When in conclusion, we stop to re-
flect thatthe Republican party has a
majority IN only nine States OF the
Union, with an electoral representation
of only fifty-four votes, that it has to
bear the odium Of fraudulent Execu-
tive-whom every honest American Is
willing to admit has stolen bis seat
intelligent Democrats viii conclude
with US that all their party needs to in
sure success is moderately intelligent
leadership and an efficient organization.
Above intelligent leadership-of which
We admit we have had but little-we
place efficient organization. Will that
we are sale, and that We should provide
for al once.-WashingtOn Post.
The SOLID SoUTH.-The Republi-
cans had no objection TO the solid South
in the Forty-frst Congress. In that
body they had twenty-five Southern
Senators and the Democrats only two;
and they had fity-two out of the sixty
three Southern Representatives admit
ted. Perhaps IL they had sent decent
men to Congress and behaved them
selves otherwise in decent and poll
tic manner the solid South would not
have melted and crystallized so sudden
Iy into new Sentinel.