The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-09-28
the Radical Reverse in Name
lShrcvppOrt StandarI,1

The election in Maine has resnltc,
IN s'ch q manner as to cause snrp,is,
both to the Republicans and to- tn,
:. Opposition. The Greenharkrrs an,
Democrats will have majority j,
the House Of II, while the Republi
cans, because of the holding owe,
Senators, have 9 majority in the Sen
ate: This gives an Opposition ma
,lorlty of 5 on joint ballot in the Leg
is'ature and enables them to elect the
State officers. Whether there l,a,
been an election of governor by the
people or not, we have not been in
formed. There have been no dis
patches on the subject since the day
after the election. when the indca.
tons were that Conner, the Republi.
can candidate. though far ahead OF
the next highest candidate, would
not have clear majority of the popu
lar vote. If he has not, then the
House Of Representatives selects
two of the candidates and sends thei,
names to the Senate, which chooses
between them. This would enable
the House to drop Common and send
the names of the Glcenback and
Democratic candidates to be ballot
ed for; and thus the Senate, like on,
recent Democratic convention, would
be compelled to decide the contest
with the strongest candidate elimina-
ted from the race. We regret exceed
lngly that there is not an election for
United States Senator this winter,
since, if there were, Mr.. Hannibal
Hamlin would be compelled to aban.
don the public crib at which he has
fed sumptuously and grown fat for
more than forty years. The Green
hackers have elected one and, posi-
bly,, two of the five members of Con-
gress, the Republican candidate
known to be certainly defeated being
Grants man, Mr.. Eugene Hale, who
was once offered a Cabinet appoint
ment, aud who will be sadly missed
BY his party ir the next Congress-
The Radicals, therefore, do not seem
to be making much Roadway, even in
decided Republican States, in rolling
up that majority in the next Congress,
which they have announced as the
one thing needtul to the salvation of
the country. The New York Herald
rightly says that they have not the
{ slightest chance of having any such
majority.
The election in Maine in former
times, coming the first of the season,
used to be held to indicate the way the
country would 60. 1t was said to
have presaged the election of Harri-
500 and Of Polk. 1t was saying "as
Maine goes so goes the Union.'
Those we're the days in which
"Maine went hcll-bent
For Governor Kent"
But since the rise of the Republi-
elected Gov0r16dTF ~ 4 Kfieputt}tanF II,
1857, the State has been 50 decidedly
and overwhelmingly Republican that
its vote has been considered as a
matter of course and no significance
has been attached to it. Its Congress
sional delegation has been unbroken
for years. In no recent Legislature
has there been more than coporal's
guard of Democratic members. The
Radicals expected the same kind Of a
victor, this year. Their CONSERVATION
now may be more easily imagined
than desc'r.o~l. 1t is said that fellow
who came IN co.tact with shoulder.
hitter and got knoo-ed into the corner
of a fence, got up on',;s leps again.
rubbing his eyes and a,:od if 'sthe
lightning had struck anyb0,.; else."
Some such feeling must have ma.
ted the breast of Blaine and Hami'-
and Frye and Hale and Hayes when
thew looked over the columns OF the
Gazette on the morning of Tuesday
last.
The N. Y. Herald is right in pre-
dieting that this election will have a
wonderful effect on the coming cleo
tious,in Massachusetts and other re-
publican States. The column having
been broken IN Maine there will he
general stampede elsewhere: Tht
Rata will not be slow in leaving tn
) sinking Republican ship. Nor will 1T
effects be lost to the Democratic par
. tv. It will show the Democrati
> leaders which way the popular cur
t rent is flowing. If the party in Main !!
J., had raisen to the necessities OF tn
Q occasion, like the Western and South
# ern Democracy, it could boast OF
great Democratic victory to-day. A
n i is il has to sit Ly and see a thir
= party obtain the lcredit of hghtlu
D. and winning the peoples 6att
y against monopolies aud bondhoIder
ts This election will, therefore, teach Il
Is Democrats of New York, Pennsylv
re mia and other Eastern States that Il
at only way to keep down the Gree
< back party is to render its format'
SO unnecessary by putting themselves
line with the Southern and Weste
" Democracy.
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