The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-11-11
The New York Election.

about seventy thousand votes, but Cor
nell ran about twenty-five thousand
votes behind the rest Of the Republican
ticket, and his plurality will not OK
cccd fifty thousand. Had the Demo
Gratis been united for governor, Cornell
would have been badly beaten, u fact
1ul'y appreciated by the Republican
papers. The Philadelphia Times, an
independent paper, and q very able
journal, takes calm view ofthe stu
alton, which we commend to the care
ful consideration of our readers. II
must DC remembered that last year,
owing to the Grccnbuck detection, tho
Republicans carried the State by tlir-
~ thousand plurality. This year de-
spite tho Republican tidal wave, and
the decentralization always attendant
upon split, the Democrats rcgaincd
these lost voters, and will at least make
u tic Oh tho State ticket. The Times
says:
Mr.. Cornell, the Rcpublican-Conk-
ing Kelly candidate for governor, is
elected rs the successor of Governor
Robinson By Il minority vote but only
thc most dependent of The organs claim
it as Republican victory. The
Times, tho Ereniny Post. the Commcy-
Ct"t -lHceritscr, indeed all the Rcpub-
lean Journals in New York city of
rcpu!ab!c plctcnsioms, excepting only
the 1!TbHAe, speak out mantullv of
the rcpronch and probable fatal wound
inflicted upon Rcpublicanism by the
combination that has made Mr.. Cor
nell governor. And when it is con-
Hidercd that the triumph Of Cornell is
probably I'LL that the Republican party
has achieved in New York, and that.
alike on the vote for governor and on
the entire State ticket, the Democratic
Mr'y has attcstcd its supremacy, the
whole line of Republican victories,
over which there has been such gcncr-
al rejoicing, turns to ashes when
weighed in the scales for 1880.
That the Empire State would have
sympaizthcd with the Republican cur
rent that has swept from Maine to Cali
1"rnia this year, had Rcpublicanism
commanded the trust of the honest
people OF New York, there can be no
Intelligent doubt; but il now seems to
'BJGs .rcasonably certain that the entire
Dcn,otG,,Mtic state ticket is elected to
iii six Important State oiIsGeeIE;s:.,w oiiIfsGGeeEs while
Cornell succeeds by plurality. And n
the humiliation of the better class OF
Rcpublican, could end with Corncll's s
election, there might be hope for Re-
puOlicans success in the future under
some wiser and moro patriotic leader
ship; but Cornell will rule in Albany
and John Kelly will rule in New York
city Tor three years, rs the representa-
tivcs Of the corruptionists Of both par
ties, aud no political organization can
survive such an exhibition OF its own
prostitution.
Not only the vote for governor, but
tho vote for the other six Sac officers,
us now reported, declares New York
10 be the one State OF tho North that
has withstood the surges Of Republic
canlsm which have swept all other
States before them; and il has SO stood
Ike the rock-ribbed shore against the
Whvcs Of the angry sea, solely because
Kcpubllcanisln must be Conklingism
or nothing, and Conklingism and
Tamnany make common cause to
shame tho Commonwealth. But for
this New York would have been Re-
publican throughout to-day and in
hearty accord with the other dcbatublc
States which have voted this year; but
being Democratic against the tidal
wave of 1879 anchors her in the Dem
Ccrtic column for 1880, and tho vote
OF New York is most likely to decide
tlG next Presidential struggle.
Looking solely ut the result Of the
elections in tho North during the pres
cnt year, when the Republicans sccm
to have gained everything, it is mani
fest that they have lost everything by
losing the only State that is indispcn-
sable to them. They have M abllnd-
ancc ofglittcring shadows; they have
lnajoritics piled up by ten thousands
where they least need them; but tho
substance that was to Ee battlcd for in
this preliminary struggle has been sur
rendered to tho Democracy by Roscoe
Conkling, John Kelly and n. B. Cor
hell. They have made the way open
Tor the election ola Democratic Prcsi-
dent next year, md if the coming ma
tlonal battle shall be lost to the Repub-
Leans, they will date the disaster from
tho evil day that made New York Il
Democratic State, to give bloltcd
victory to an unworthy Republican
candidate for governor.
The view taken by the Times is
very gratifying to Democratic hopes
yet tits evidently sound. If indiana
can be kept in tho Democratic column
next October, not only New York but
other States will join tho South il
selecting some good man for President
And indiana went Democratic by fif
teen thousand votes last year whcl
ONO was lost to tho Democrats b,
three thousand. The chances for 1885,
are even, with the Democrats slightl,
ahead.
SPITTOOSS FOR TWO,-Eycrybo1,