Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-02
The Radical Reverse in Maine.

in such % manner rs to cause sur
prise both to the Republicans and to
the Opposition. The Grecnbackers
and Democrats will have a majority
in the House of Il, while the Repub
Leans, because OF the holding over
Senators, have Q majority in the
Senate. This gives an Opposition
majority Of ) OH Joint ballot in the
Legislature and enables them to
elect the State officers. Whether
there has been an election Of cover.
nor by the people or not, we have
not been informed. There have
been no dispatches on the subject
since the day after the election, when
the indications were that Counor,
the Republican candidate, though
far ahead Of the next highest candi.
date, would not have clear matori
~ OF the popular vote. II he has
not, then the House of Repeseu.
tatives selects two of the candidates
and sends their ntrncs to the Senate,
which chooses between them. This
would enable the House TO drop
Conner and send the names Of the
Greenback aud Democratic candi.
dates to bc bailoted for; and thus
the Senate, like our recent Demo.
cratic convention, wonld I've oomrel,.
ed to decide the contest with the
strongest candidate eliminated from
the race. We regret exceedingly
that there is not an election for Unit.
ed States Senator this winter, since,
if there were, Mr.. Hannibal Hamlin
would be compelled to abandon the
public crib at which lie has fed sump.
tuously and grown fat for more than
forty years. The Grecnbackers have
elected one and, possibly, two Of tlsc
five members Of Congress, the Re
publican candidate known to be Ger.
tainly defeated being Grants man,
Mr.. Eugene Hale, who was once Of.
fered Cabinet appointment, and
who will he sadly missed by his par.
IS in the next Congress. The Rad
icals, therefore, do not seem to be
making much Roadway, even in de.
cided Republican States, in rolling
up that majority in the next Congress
which they have announced as the
thing nectlful 10 the salvation of the
country. The New York Herald
. rightly says that they have NOT the
T slightest chance Of having any snch
, majority.
The election in Maine in former
times, coming the first Of the season,
used to he held to Indicate the way
the country would SO. 1t was said
r to have prcsaged the election Of Har.
riscn aud Of Polk. 1t was q saying
, Gas Maine goes, SO goes the Unioa."
! Those were the days in which
"Maine went helkbeh
For Governor Kent" -~-.
But since the rise of the Rcpubh.
; can party; since Hanuibal Ha,nlin
was elected Go,ernor rs Repu6f-
+. In 1857, the Safe has been 50 dccid
eddy and overwhelmingly Republi
{ can that it's vote Inns bcen consider.
}. cd as matter Of course and 10 sig.
4 nifcance hns been attached to it.
Q It's Congressional delegation has
been unbrOken for years In no re.
;. cent Legislature has there been
@ moro than corporors guard OF
I Democratic members. The Radicals
!. expected the same kind of victory
l., this year Their CONSERVATION ROW
Q may Nc moro caeily imagined than
n described. 1t is said that a fellow
4 who once came in contact with Z
shoulder,hitter and got knocked into
r the coraer Of a fence, got up on his
8 legs again, rubbed his eyes aud ask
r. ed if "the lightning struck anybody
If else.n Some such feeling must have
animated the breast Of Blaine and
HamlIn and Frye and Hale ant
I, Hayes when they looked over TIL
'. columns of the Gazette on the NOR
~ ming Of Tuesday last.
"a The n. Y. herald is right in pre-
e dieting that this election will have I
y wonderful effect on the coming eiec
- tons in Massachusetts, and othe'
70 Republican States. The columi
~ having been broken in Maine Their
ne will 10 a general stampede else
SO where The rats will net BE slow IL
OF leaving the sinking Republican ship
IN Nor will its effects. I've lost on tn
e, Democratic party. 1t will show tn
sc Democratic lea,lers which way tn
Gu popular current is Sowing, II tn
- party in Maine had risen to the ns
ceseitIcs Of the cccaslu., like tn
Western entl erathe.n Oamocracy
er Il ccnld beast OF q great Democrat
of victory to-day. As Il - 4 has
Il. sit by end see third party obtai
o. the credit Of fighting and winnin
lis the peoples battle against the me