The Democratic advocate., 1878-09-14
THE MAINE ELECTION.
Death-Knell Of Republicanism
NO CHOICE OF GOVERNOR.
EUGENE Hale SHELVED.
HAMLIN AND BLAINE GONE
TO KEEP HIM COMPANY.
THE GOVERNOR AND LBgIsIATURE
AGAINST THE REPUBLICANS.
The Beginning Ofthe End of Republioanism.

AGAINST THE REPUBLICANS.
The Beginning Ofthe End of Republicanism.
The latest returns give Conner. Re6ab-
llcan Tor Governor, Al ,6sl; Smith, Green
back, 28,322, and Garcelon. Democrat,
1852. Conner lacks 6,253 of majority.
thus causing an election by the Legisla-
ture. The Legislature will stand 65 Re-
pu6llcans Democrats supporting the Re
publicans, q regular Democrats. and IS
Greenbackers. Five other districts will
return Greenbackers. giving the opposi-
tion a majority of . on joint ballot. The
election Of Mureh, Greenbacker, to Con
gress, over Eugene Hale, in the fifth dis
trlet, IS conceded by GOO plurality.
COMMENTS or THE PRESS.
Neio York WOrld.-What we wish our Re
publican friends to take notice of is that this
cataclysm took place in a State where for a
quarter OF a century they have had absolute
control; IN State where the party is headed
by one OF the eleverest and most popular of
Republican 0hIettains; in a State where the
population Is largely composed of the honest,
upright and highly educated New England
yeomanry that Republican orators always
parade as the type and fine flower of Radical.
ism. IL wasn'tthe "corner-groeery'' element
nor the Ignorant foreigner who voted for
the National candidates in the Pine-Tree
State on Monday last. The Republicans took
the currency issue-a little late in the day
perhaps-aud the bloody-shirt issue and the
temperance issue (for they had temperance
plank, while the Democratic and National
platforms were silent as to prohibition) and
the Communist issue, and in spite of all this
were whipped. Do they say this is only the
effect of popular discomfort with the Govern
ment and of hard times? Well, what marty
has administered the Government of the
United States and of Maine for many years
past? What party's financial and fiscal poll
cy is It that has been imposed upon the ma
ton :? There is Maine, for whose people the
sweet boon of the navigation laws was espe-
clally devised and maintained, and the Nation
ais sweep 1t; and there are Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts, States that the Republican
policy of protection was adopted to conciliate,
and the National movement is most formida-
Bile there. And if our Republican friends
will look to the West they will find that It is
IN ''stalwart Iowa and Kansas that the great
est strength of the Nationals is in course of
development. 1t is strictly q Republican
funeral, but it is suggestive that lust in those
regions where Republican control has been
absolute and just among the communities
which were supposed to benefit most by the
HePublcan policy the popular uprising against
the party and Its policy should be most furious
II our Republican friends will look over
the map of the United States they will find
that Greenback movements have lost Indiana
to the Republicans, Maine to the Republicans,
Pennsylvania to the Republicans, Ohio to the
Republicans, part of Vermont TO the Repub-
licans. They will not find that in any Dem
| oeratic State the National or any other third
party movement has placed the Democratic
domination in danger, even when the Repub-
liean minority has fostered it and aided it.
As for the particular instance, one section of
the Maine Democracy has ''disintegrated''-
that is, has joined with the Republican NAL
contents and overthrown the Blaine power,
which the party united, had been unable to
do. Who is it that is hurt? And when the
craze Is over and there is a Encouragement of
lines, which party will form the most COM
pactly and readily? The Democratic party
has been through several crises and has had
its "cataclysms," but it has always survived
to bury its antagonist. We invite our esteem
ed Republican contemporaries to remark that
this National movement is going to cost their
party several States and not few Congress
men, and in view of this circumstance may
We uOL lhNitc tueLilf IN tle WOfuS OF MI. DICK
ens's reduced gentlewoman to her would be
benefactor, to disseminate their goose in
their own sphere ?''
Baltimore Gdzette.-The results Of the re-
cent elections in Vermont and Maine send a
cold shiver through the very marrow of Re
publican bones. These are the strongest Re
publican States, where the Democrats have
been not only small in number but weak in
organization and leaders and accustomed to
defeat. The Republican party there on the
contrary has been strongly organized and
ofiicered, numerically powerful and naughty
aud confident in tone. Mr.. blaine carried
Maine in his wRisteoat pocket. The course
of these elections was therefore watched with
great interest, for they gave the first trust
worthy indications of the degree to which the
Greenback Labor party has disorganized the
Republican party and prepared for its crush
ing defeat. Last year the Greenback vote
was inconsiderable in those States, but it has
gained considerably and chiefly at the expense
of the Republicans. The causes of this are
not fair to seek. In the first place there is
feeling, widespread though vague, that the
Republican party has had control of the Gov
ernment too long aud that change is need
ed, if merely for the sake of change. Defee-
tions from its ranks have also occurred due
to the strain put upon the party by counting
in r. b. Hayes through fraud. The party
has been forced TO swallow him and indorse
him, and he has soured upon the stomachs of
many. Another cause Of complaint is the
Republican iusineerity aud corruption in deal
ing with the national finances In every
State, therefore, the Republican party is dis
organized. There are hard money aud soft
money men, Administration and anti Admin
istration men, and in addition TO these any
local question will subdivide it still further.
If all this takes place in New England,
what will happen in Pennsylvania, in Ohio,
in Illinois and Wisconsin? The forces that
we're so potent in the narrow field of Maine
and Vermont exist on a tenfold scale in the
valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi, and along
the great lakes. Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin
and California were in the last election count
ed for Hayes by very slender majorities. Il
would take very little to tip the scale and it
can hardly be doubted that the preponderanee
will next time not merely tip the scale but
send it down with n crash that will knock the
bottom out of Republican hopes for the fu-
ture. 1t is high time. Such vitality as ii had
ten years ago has long departed, and it is a
corrupt, selt-seeking, insincere bundle of petty
antagonisms, incapable of any policy, incapa-
bic of governing the country It's doom is
sealed. In the next Congress it will be
mere railing, cursing minority, senile and i'm
/
as a reason for its existence and so il will pass
out of politics into the limbo of decayed
parties.
Philadelphia Times.-The election in Maine
on Monday dated the overthrow of the Re
publican supremacy in the State. II is in no
sense Democratic restoration, but it is an
utter and apparently hopeless Republican
disaster. Governor Conner, one of the most
faithful and acceptable Executives Maine has
ever had, is undoubtedly defeated by the peo-
pie, the first Republican candidate who has
/ suffered discontinue in the State for a quarter
Of century. 1t seems quite probable that
the House will contain majority of Demo
Gratis and Nationals, and if so, it will inevita-
bly, defeat Conners election by the Senate,
as the House, if controlled by the fusion op-
position, will return only Garcelon, Demo
crat, and Smith, National, as the men between
whom the Senate must choose. Powers, Re
publican, is undoubtedly defeated for Congress
in the Fourth district by I.add, Democrat and
supported by the Nationals, and the return OF
Hale is in doubt, with chances apparently
against him. In the First district, where the
Republicans feared defeat and the opposition
was confident of success, Reed, Republican,
is reported elected by a decided majority,
showing that all calculation has been at fault
in fOreshadowing the result.
The lesson Of Maine is brief story to re-
cord. 1t is o Republican disaster that is rev.
olutionary in its results. 1t does not recall