The New York herald., 1878-11-07
The General Result.

! the SENATE. alter the Attn of next March,
they will have majority of nine, without
including Senator David Davis, who figures
as an independent. In the House, leaving
aside California, which does not elect its
four Representatives until next year, and
which now has two of each party, the DEM
| ocrats will have majority of over twenty,
according TO present acoo'ls..s which cannot
be much changed by fuller reports. This
leaves out OF the count the greenback-
ers, for it would be a mistake to
count these swelling the democratic
majority, because some of them are
OF republican antecedents, and therefore
1 likely to vote with the republicans on
general questions. But party bonds hang
SO lightly on Congressman in these days
and both parties are so devoid OF ques-
tions on which their members agree
that partisan majoritles are mainly impor-
tant because they will control the election
of Speaker and the formation of the COM
mittees Of both houses. There will be, Of
course. other contingencies in which
the fact that both houses are demo-
cratic will be Of moment; and it may
| happen that the possession of this pre-
| dominance may force upon the demo-
Gratis sense OF responsibility which shall
enable their leaders, if they are >judicious
and determined, to impose upon the party
definite policy.
| Leaving out Nevada, from which decisive
reports have not yet come, and California,
whose delegation is at present tied, the
| democrats have a majority in nineteen State
| delegations and the republicans in seven
teen. II Nevada and California should both
| give republican maiorities the House on
count Of States would be equally balanced.
But it is not probable that the next Presi-
Dental election will have to be decided by
| the House.
| The democrats must see by this time the
folly of encouraging the greenback move
ment, from which some of them, as Senator
Thurman, hoped for important advantages.
Not only has the silly and undemocratic
surrender Of SO many democrats to the inha-
tion and paper money swinde given the
astute republicans an opportunity to grasp
for themselves the sound and evidently pop
ular policy of hard money, but the sup
position Of men like Mr.. Thurman that
the greenback movement would cause losses
to the repub blican party is SO entirely fall
lacious that in fact the democrats have lost
several districts :Aed the control OF at least
two important States and New
Jersey-by democratic votes drawn off into
the greenback ranks. The elections of
Tuesday show clearly that the republicans
have benefited greatly by the green
back craze, not only because this
has drawn off democratic voters, but
also : because it forced the republi-
cans to take positive ground on the
currency question, and wherever they have
| done so they have gained. To take only
ono instance out of many, MI. Chittenden
in Brooklyn made his whole canvass on the
currency question and took the most ex-
treme hard money ground, denouncing
|. even the silver movement and the sacred
'.dollar Of the daddics i yet his majority
increased from two hundred and fifty in
1876 to over six thousand last Tuesday.
Mr. Morton also carried a democratic dis
trct as distinct and uncompromising hard
money man. We advise the democrats to
unite to get the currency question ont of
politics they have always blundered and
lost with it, and they ought by this time to
see that for their safety as party it ought
| to be settled as soon possible.
The greenback-national party failed to
| put in an appearance almost everywhere
and its boasted strength, which SO badly
! frightened the politicians of both parties
during the summer, led Senator Thurman
| out Of true democratic paths and kept Sen
ator Conkling long silent, to the grief Of his
| friends, turns ont to have been mere empty
brag General Butler is beaten by over
twenty-five thousand majority, although the
hard money vote was divided upon two
candidates; and there are but six green
hackers in the new House, instead
/ OF the eighty-three members OF Con-
gress their Western organs had the
| hardihood to claim in October. The
| list published ut that time, only
a month ago, by the greenback-national or
eans iSsuch curiosity now that we pre-
sent it here They claimed that they would
elect Congressman in the following States:-
Maine, 2 Massachusetts,, 2 New York, u !;
New Jersey, ; Pennsylvania, 10; Mary
land, Il Virginia, 81 West Virginia, / /;
North Carolina, Georgia, i; Alabama,
2; Mississippi, 2 Louisianas 3 Texas, !;
Arkansas, 4 Tennessee, 3; Missouri, Z !;
Kansas, ] !; California, Iowa, 4 ; Illinois,
TO- Michigan, G; Wisconsin, 4 Indiana, 3 !;
Ohio, 3, and Kentucky, 3.
1t should not be forgotten by the public
that in several Southern States, as in North
Carolina, Louisiana, Alabama and Others,
the carpet-bag republicans united with the
greenbackcrs in the hope by such coali-
ton to gain some Offices; but they appear
to have failed entirely. The Southern re-
publicans everywhere adopted initiation