Daily Republican., 1879-04-11
what Il Mak ing . SOLID North.

From present appearances II nov
lssks that so far a. tho next President
ial election 10 concerned, it makes IL
difference whether the Federal election
laws are repealed or not. If the sprins
elections already held are any signifi
csnce there will be . solid North any.
how against . sold South, which o.
course elects the Republican candidate,
no matter whether that candidate be
Grant, Blaine, Conkling or any other
leading Republican. 1t is not 80 much
the man now that the Republicans
want as the success Of the party, and
for oncs the candidate 10 to be the mere
fgure head. There is no use for the
rebel brigadiers and their dough-faced
Northern allies to push the repeal OF
the election laws with the expectation
Of carrying New York, for from present
appearances that State is safely an.
ohored to the solid Northern column,
even making allowances for stufing the
ballot boxes Of New York city with 3d.
900 fraudulent Democratic ballots after
the latest improved South Carolina
style. For this moulding and concen-
traton of Republican opinion, and the
establishment Of Republican unity,
ything is due to the ex-rebes in
Congress under the lead Of Hamburg
Butcher Butler in the Senate and Fort
Pillow Massacre Chalmers in the House.
Tucker, of Virginia, one of the abl.st
-x-rebels in the House, did great deal
towards concentrating Republican SEN
ti'nent in the North, hy trying to get
jeff Davis put upon the pension roll of
the United States, and the sending of
Hull, of Florida, to Congress instead of
TO the penitentiary, where he will
probably land yet, has hsp ped along in
the direction Of a solid Republican
North. Aside from all these individual
isolated cases, however, is the broad
fact and farce OF solid ax.rebel delega-
tions in Congress from the States Of
South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisi-
ana, where if fair and free elections
were held would send sold Republican
delegations. II the people of those
States were allowed to vote onoe at each
election and to vote for whom they pleas
ed, the nation would not te ins1lted
by seeing the leader Of the shot gun
murderers Of South Carolina in the
senate, and the man who ordered help
less, iuotfensive negroes to be butcher
ed at Fort Pillow, in the House. These
are facts which the intelligent, educat-
ed people of the North ar. looking at,
and they are coming to the rescue of
the nation ~ graudly as they did when
Fort sumptsr was arei upon, The
people see in the Senate twenty ex-
rebel officers ofthe Confederate army,
and ten sympathizers, making thirty
in all from the South, while from the
great liberty loving Norta there are
only thirteen dough faced Democrats,
who bow the supple knee to their South
ern masters. The people see in the
House one hundred so-cailel Democrats
from the South, eighty Of whom are
ex rebel officers, while from the North |
there are but ffty.four fawning, cring-
ing allies, who do the bidding of their
Southern lords, thai thtift may fol-
low fawning. There is no shutting out
the tact that each House Of Congress is
now in the hands of unrepentant ex.
rebel officers, an ". are glad the peo-
pie are waking up to see things exact
ly a. they are, and we are glad also
that they have commenced to rebuke
this second rebellion at the polls, as
the vote at the spring elections fully
sh5ws. There need 10 no fears Of the
Confederacy succeeding in 1880, now
after the people have awoke to see that
the whole object and intent of the de-
funct Conf-deracy is to obtain by forced
legislation what they lost by an appeal
to arms. In view Of all these facts the
elections held this sprin; are signif-
cant. In Michigan the combined oppo-
sition vote last fail exceeded the Re-
publican vots by 25 90. At the State
election just held tn Republican ma
jority is over 10000 Rhode Island
has increased its Republican majority.
Columbus, Ohio always Democratic,
gave over 900. Cincinnati has chang
ed over to the Republicans in The same {
way. Nearly all tn cities and towns '
in Ohio and Iowa elect Republican otli /
GERS. The iuwn elections in the New /
England >tates show large Republican {
gains. 1t is becoming more and more t
evident every day that the Democrats a
,annot hope to carry New York State a
either thj. fall or next year. Ohio may
be set down as rertain to elect Re y
publican Governor this fall, and 60 a
r 'putlican next year. The indications il
are that all the Northern States carried l.
for Tlden in 1875 will be- Republican, 4
in 1850. a