New-York tribune., 1878-11-06
YESTERDAY'S HORR.

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has chosen an Assembly Overwhelmingly
Republican, has elected RePubli-
can Judge, and bns sent twenty
four Repli0iramssttotlt&l rEe&t Congress in the
place of the seventeen in this one. Massa-
chusetts has buried General Butler under an
adverse majority of 10000. Pennsylvania has
handsomely reversed the Democratic vote of
last year, carried the Legislature, and saved
the United States Senator Connecticut has
secured her Legislature, and so ended
the career Of Barnum. the mule-buyer.
New Jersey resCues the majority of her Con-
gressona delegation from the Democrats, and
so insures Republican vote. if the next
Presidency should he thrown into the House.
1t is all done, too. with the emphasis of
Mayor of New-York by a majority of
nearly twenty thousand, /. p. Morton de-
feats Willis by 5000. McCook is reelected by
5000. Chittcnden goes back TO stand tor hard
money by an increased vote. In the
interior the majOriucs, especially for
Congressman, are almost unprecedented.
The dispatches at l o'clock this morn
ing were talking of 1000 majority for
HIscock, 5000 for Warner Miller. the same
for Wood. $500 for Dwight 5000 for
Ketehum, and so OnthrOughout the State while
the Legislature, which is to choose
the successor to Roscoe ConkliEg, Is
even more heavily Republican than that
which elected him in 1872. The voice
of the people elsewhere is equally
emphatic Massachusetts, defeats Butler by
as large majority as she gave
for Hayes. Pennsylvania claims a larger
majority nov than she gave IN 1876. Con-
nectieut not only tells Barnum TO lea We I'll
Senate, but she sends Hawley back to take
the place of a Democrat III the House.
10 one word, so faras the news has yet reached
us, tue Republican masses have everywhere
come solidly into line once more, as they always
do when a real emergency cOnfrOnts them.
They have ended the apprehensions OF
those who feared the Republican party
was going to pieces. They have lald
the rising spectre of unresistcd Democratic
control in Washington. They have at least
won handsome lighting ground for 1880. and
have probably enabled us to enter upon that
Presidential contest with the advantage Of
position, and the chances decidedly in our
favor
1t is splendid Uictory for honest money
The platform and the canvass in
New-York were as explicit as words
could make them, and Mr.. COnkling's admirable
speech at Saratoga gave the tone to the whole
campaign. The ringing hard-money speech
of GaIusha A. Grow at Oil City,
at the very outset of the PennsylYa-
MIA campaign, did the same for that
State, and next to Governor HOyt,
Mr. Grow has been the speaker most in de-
mand throughout their CANVASS. In Massa-
chusetts the issue was yet more sharply
drawn, and it will he long before
another man of power throws himself
away on the theory that Bay State
voters really prefer rascality in National
finance All the more important victories
yesterday were won IN a square fight for the
National honor, and against the lunncy or dis
honesty of Greenbaekers and their allies, the
Democrats.
II is the public rerdif about FTdad. The
ears of the country have been dinncd with that
CRY long enough; the chosen President Of forty
millions has been insulted at home, and the good
name of the Nation has been smirched abroad
as long as the people are willing
TO stand it, Voters have made up their minds
az to where the Fraud was i'll cOnnec-
ton with the last Presidential election. They
have read the secret correspondence OF Gram
Grey Park, and yesterdays ballots tell what
they think of it.
IT is the public radici on the course of the
Democratic party in porey. The last session of
Congress showed what that party meant
TO do. 1t was given just about rope
enough to hang itself, and it made
the best possible use OF what it had. Inco-
henent, irresponsible, ignorant, rapacious,
wholly unfit to govern, its recklessness has
disgusted that sober class of voters who stand IN
the independent middle line and decide elections.
Their best Judgment is shown in the in
creased returns Of Republicans to the ncxt
House
II is the Northern rerdict on the attitude Of
he South. Never was a defeated people so