New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-09

of the disease have put an end to business OF
all kinds, $1,000 men, representing popula-
ton of 100000, have been thrown out Oh
employment. This is simply appalling.
We grieve to observe a tendency to
card-writing and some indications of bad feel
ing on the part of those who are conduct
ing the work of relief. This is no time Tor
anything of that sort. Our Northern cities are
doing splendidly the contributions reported
to the leading agencies in our own city
already exceed $14S,000; but much gener-
osity is going to waste owing to the
lack of system with which cOntribu-
tons are made, and food, medicines,
clothing and supplies are distributed
The congregation at st. ThOmas's Church was
greatly affected yesterday, when letter was
read from an indefatigable worker, the Rev.
Mr.. Parsons and the announcement was made
that he had been stricken down with the
plague. One of our dispatches at midnight
bears the tidIngs of his death. He was one
among many heroes. When we think OF him
and of them, it seems little enough that we
are called upon to do at the North, but we
ought to do that little ungrudgingly, remem-
bering that he who gives quickly gives twice.
Whether majorities are large or small in
Vermont is not matter Of Importance. Inc
State Is safely Republican, and the thousands
of voters who stayed at home last week knew
it perfectly well. All calculations of Republl-
can gains or losses may, therefore, well be rele-
gated to the industrious arithmetica maniac
whose function in life is to prove that u
losses continue at the same ratio, the Repub-
I" lican party will lose the Staten about the year
2OO0. Much more important is the evidence that
the soft-mOney heresy has gained no consider
able strength in that State, and has drawn
more voters prOpOrtiOnally from the Demo-
cratic than from the Republican party. The
only legislative candidates elected by Green
back votes are Democrats. The Independent
Republican who ran for Congress in the lid
District obtained only an insignificant proper
ton of his vote from the Greenback faction,
but the vote for candidates of other parties
shows that the Republicans lost about $500,
and the Democrats about 800 votes in the dis
tgict, in comparison with the last Congressional
election. The Greenback and scattering votes
amounted to only about $3.50 in the whole
State-less than One-twentieth OF the aggre-
gate vote. The decline i'll the Republican vote
since the Presidential election was less than
IS per cent, while the decline in the Demo-
cratic vote was nearly 10 per cent. Rela-
lively, the soft-money heresy damaged the
Democratic party most. The RepubE-
cans have failed to elect one Of their
regular candidates for Congress, but 1t
can hardly be said that anything has been
gained by the Democrats. The Republican
who ran as a boiling candidate must receive
more Republican than Democratic votes before
he can by any possibility be elected, ana even
then, if ne has any wish for q political future
in that State, he would hardly act with the
Democrats in the organization of the House,
and would be still less tempted to identify
himself with Greenback faction which will
hardly be less insignificant in Congress than
it is in Vermont.