The Portland daily press., 1879-11-06
PRESS COMMENTS
PRESS COMMENTS.
How the Newspapers Regard the Results
of the Elections.

How the Newspapers Regard the Results
of the Elections.
New YORK, Nov.-After summing UP the
returns from the various states the Times says:
There is no mistaSing the meaning OF these
figures They show that the old spirit OF the
Republican party is aroused. The financial
heresies which have drawn off many thous-
and votes in various states during the last four
years may not be absolutely laid at rest, but
for the present they command no organized
support. Their advocates are silenced by the
revival of prosperity and the utter failure of
their baleful predictions. On the other hand,
the national issues which have been shaping
themselves sharply for twelve months, and
which the Democrats deliberately forced upon
the attention Of the country, have awakened
depth of conviction, tirmness and decision
of public opinion, that cannot be mlsunder-
stood These Republican victories are the
quiet but emphatic answer of the North to the
threats and aspirations and schemes or the
solid South. They are the enumeration, SO
plainly written that the waytarlng man,
though Senator from MISSISSIPPI may reau
them, of the determination of the country to
refuse power to the party which is reactionary,
un-republcan and sectional.
The Tribune has these words
1t is victory throughout. Cornell Is Cover
nor-eect of New New YORK. Inc oonptiuI
is routed. Pennsylvania comes up like sec
ond Iowa. A Solid North sends greeting to a
Solid South Yesterday answers the last ,ses-
sion of Congress, and all the lnsolent dlsloy-
atty which, after growing for years, found ex-
preston there. The grand and reslstless ur-
rising which followed the shot in Charleston
harbor in 1861. finds an echo in the returns OF
today. Once more the North is united. The
work which men did with their bullets they
have determined not to spoil with their ballots
Here, on the very Threshold of the victory
which means, if they are wise, twenty years
more of power, they serve notice upon the
South that there is no vindictlyeness IN their
triumph.
The Herald says:
There has been more scratching, pasting and
general independent Judgment of voters than
is common. 1t is probable that Cornell is elect
ed by 25 900 plurality, while the Democratic
state ticket, including the Lieutenant Cover
nor is chosen by considerable but uncertain
majority. In the great struggle between
Conkling and Tilden, the latter goes to the
wall. Robinson was placed in the field by
Tiden, and he represented Tilden in the
contest. His success would have been con-
spicuous evidence thai Tilden retained q firm
hold on the voters of the state. The success
OF the rest of the Democratic ticket only makes
the overthrow of Tilden more glaring. and it
is clear that but for his interference the Dem
ocrats could have chosen their whole ticket,
governor and all. A Republican Governor
coming into power at a time when he has i'm
mense patronage falling into his hands, will
tial contest next year. The Democrats have
elected their state ticket, with the exception OF
Governor at time when the state admins
Grafton is still entirely Democratic.
| The World editorially says:
The Democracy carried the state by hand
some majority and elected every candidate
upon the state ticket, except, perhaps Its head,
| the most conscientious and faithful chief mag
| istrate which the state has had for many years.
This result fully iustifes the appeal which the
| World made early in the canvas to Mr.. Tilden,
| and which was repeated after the exercise OF
| great courtesy and forbearance, and, let us
| add, with the exercise of great courtesy and
! forbearance by Governor Robinson himself, at
| later stage of the canvass to relieve the
| Democratic party of the weight put upon 1t by
the persistent efforts of the stalwarts to identl-
| fy Governor Robinson's nomination in 1873
| with the Presidential nomination of Mr.. Tilden
in 1880. The treason of Tammany, instigated
| by Mr.. Kellys personal spite, could not have
effected this alone, nor even combined with
| the counting of Judge Noah Davis 1t has
| been effected mainly by the reluctance OF
Independent voters to take any risk of assisting
| to promote the Presidential candidacy of MIR.
Tilden in 1880. Henceforth no intelligent
person will mention Tilden seriously as a
possible candidate for the Presidency. Neither
will anybody mention him as possible candi-
date for honors of his own state. His position
in the politics of his own state is that OF a
inarplot, who could neither succeed himself
nor would allow men to succeed who had IN
themselves the elements of success, of which
he had at least permitted himself to be
deprived. He lashed his own political corpse
the Democracy of New York; and If the state
has thereby lost the honest service of the one
it has at least been thereby delivered of the
incumberance of the other.