Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1879-10-11
THE FALL ELECTIONS.

Surprising the Republicans should car
ry the remaining State elections this fall.
1t does not by any means follow that they
will have d ma ority on the popular vote,
or that the Presidential contest will he
materially affected by such a result. OF
course success would increase their con-
fidcnce for the time being aud encourage |
their hopes for the future. The leaders
find comfort in very slight blessings.
Maine has been u Republican State |
since the organization of tho party, and
has always been reckoned with as much
contide. &C on that side as Kentucky has
been on the other. Last year divisions
and discomfort led to y defeat of tbs mas
chine, by Il combination between the
| GrceubacI1"rs and the Democrats. This
| year the Republicans have PARTLY recov-
| cred their lost ground. That is to say
| they have rcgainrd the Legislature,
which elects the Governor and other State
officers. there having been no choice by
the people.
But the oltl-fashioncd majority of ten
to twelve thousand, which hardly waver-
ed for more than twenty years, has Who'll
ly disappeared, and the Republicans are
in a minority, small, it is true, but still
a minority of the popular vote. Aud this
is the result after an uneNampled canvass,
the cxpen1itu of very large sum of
money, the open purchase OF votes in the
cities, and a resort to every form OF tflck-
cry known to INSCRIPTIONS politicians
Yet Mr.. Blaine had the cheerful ettrontery
to claim Il great victory, when barely
saved by the skin of his teeth from igno-
mious defeat
Ohio is IL close State, which may go Ell
Their way now without any specia. siSnl'
ticance as bearing on the Presidential coil
test in 1880. A Republican Governor was
elected in California Il few weeks ago
known to be in sympathy with the nigh
ty corporation that has long ruled the
D State and to which q great majority o
e the people are opposed. The Central Pa
f citic manag gers knew how to divide thcl
- opponents and thus to conquer.
The fall elections will settle nothing
and many foreshad,w very little, as ia
= as the Presidential question is concerned
The events Of he approaching session o
Congress will shape that question lon
II before the two National Convention
" meet, and will shape il in q way to leav
&c little doubt as to the final issue. Til
- prorro1nme of the Republican stalwart
l. is to force sectional campaign and t
nominate Grant as It's exponent. Ii III
,r Democrats are weak or foolish enough t
% fall into this trap they will deserve to
" beaten. If they are wise and know no
re to profit by u dearly puIc chased eNpci
" cncc, the way to the White House Is ope
nd before them.
~ 1t may be necessary to run out of tt
VI old rut, and i. is Indispensable TO disca
he Bourbonism One thing above all othe
eft must be borne in mind If success is DIES
.5 ed. The Democratic candidate in L
No. own person, by his antecedcnts, and
"s his recognized character. should give t
he colntry assurance that in the event
IS his election there would be ar end to 8
NIL tional agitation.
No other sort of candidate can hope
nc win, and it is better that that fact sho'
ng be clearly understood now than when
=. is NAV Lc too latc.-N. y. Sun.