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ere that number Of districts which
were carried by the Democrats at
the last election by less than 100
majority-the Sixth Indiana, where
they only had IA majority; the
Eighteenth Illinois, where they had
but twenty majority; the First New
Hampshire, 43 the Eighteenth Penn
sylvania, 60; the Second Ohio, 10;
the Thirteenth Pennsylvania, 81;
the Fourth Ohio, &c. There ere four
others Trey hold with very little
greater strength the First Connec-
ticut, 1879; the Ninth Kentucky, 1898;
the Thirty-second New York, 400
and the Eleventh New York. There
are, too, a dozen southern districts
that were carried by the Republic
ans in 1874 by 1000 majority and
more, which may DO regained, and
more than that number ia Pennsyl-
vania, New York, Connecticut and
New Jersey, including Randall's own
district, that may be swept from
Democratic control by the record the
party has made on the tariff ana 9th
er issues, and its general and gross
misconduct. Against this, but as an
incentive to more violent effort, is the
fact that by redistricting Missouri the
Democrats have secured the posses
sion of four Republican seats there
and that their condition in the South
is such that they expect to return LOG
members from there-a gain Of four
teen.
The coming elections have to de-
eide the continuance in power of a
Democracy that hssjustly offended the
whole country by all it did and all
that it refused or neglected to do,
and the control Of that party, and
therefore the control of the country
by the South. There are n~inety-two
Southern Democrats and but sixty
four Northern. The former have d.
rected the later, and both have plot
ted and acted against every assaila.
BILE interest Of the nation. Governing
the party that has governed the con-
Germs of the land, negatively or posi-
lively, during the last Congress
that has spent time which should
have been devoted to industry and
business in housing over contested
elections, vainly trying to break
down correct returns, seeking to in
validate the Presidential election
the south has been the government,
as well as the power, of the Democ-
racy, and now contemplates a further
tenure of office. We do not appre-
bend that this contemplation will be
realized. We do not believe that the
force and fraud which won in the
south at the last election will wiz
again and we are confident that the
record Of the last Congress, working
against Democracy in the close
Northern districts named, as well as
in those less equally balanced, will
return a Republican triumph this fall.
The reasons are too plain, cogent,
and widely spread to need expansion.
The easy possibilities are named.
The necessities Of the North are pa
tent.
The details of this generalization
may be elaborated ct leisure. The
leading facts are that the adjourned
Congress, led by the South and gov
erned by the Democracy, has disap-
pointed men of all parties and injured
all that but a few gains are needed
to render the next Republican that
more than sufficient gains are easily
reckoned in northern districts previ-
ously carried by very trifing Dem
ocratic majorities, and these districts
are in States where the tariff legisla-
ton of the last Congress is alone sufii-
cient to cause a change, ard that
some Republican gains may be hoped
from the south. The record-parti-
san, congressional and national
should unite and animate Republi-
cans, so that they will again possess
the House and influence The Execu-
tive. To this end work should begin
early, and be earnestly prosecuted
North american.