The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-22
THE RESULT IN NEW YORK.
IRON the Cincinnati Enouirer.l

The elections which, attracted ma
tional curiosity and attention were
those in Massachusetts and New York.
Would the Republicans lose Massachu-
settsT Would the Democratic party
lose New York; The result in New
York was, of course, the commanding
question, for New York is the COM
handing State. The voice of New
York, with her splendid and varied in
dustries, her manifold manufactures,
her imperial commerce, her various
populations, with her bankers and Ia
borers, her corporations and farms, and
with her thirty-fye electoral votes, was
awaited with chief interest. 1t was be-
heved that New York held the political
destinies of the republic for few years
in her right hand. If the Republican
party could succeed in carrying the
great representative State of New York.
great Republican victory would be Sc
cured, the first substantial Republican
gain of this year. But New York is
still Democratic.
The defeat of Mr. Robinson was inev-
liable in theface of formidable Demo
cratic, or nn-Democratic, belt against
hum, which commanded votes, not by
the hundreds, or thousands, as was ex-
pected by many, but by the scores of
thousands. No candidate in any State
could stand against such a detection;
and it is amazing that such detection
in the Democratic party in New York
did not entirely sweep away the party
success, when the divided Democracy
confronted a united Republican party,
or the Republican party Almost united.
The imperial State of New York is
saved to the Democratic party in an
hour in which a most unhappy and
bitter quarrel placed that Democratic
State in the greatest peril. 1t is a dan
gerous time when.50, 000o OBJ $4,000 men
within party in one State scratch the
head of the ticket. 1t is great party,
of splendid discipline, of fine devotion,
of matchless tenacity, that can pass
safely through such a peril inside the
party, when the greatest perils outside
the party also needed to be over
come. Whatever the effect of the
New York election may be upon
individual candidates, If any, New
York, in a trying time, appears as
Democratic State. Not even a stupen-
dous Democratic quarrel in New York
could give New York to the Republican
party. Conkling rises as conqueror,
not because he nominated the strongest
candidate at Saratoga, but because he
elected an unpopular candidate through
Democratic divisions, and the Legisla
ture is Republican. The power of
Kelly, the tenacious Irishman, is evl
dent, and it is not small. The effect
upon Mr.. Tilden must be coolly
calculated. The great fact is of
more importance than Mr.. Tilden's
ambitions or Mr.. Kellys spites,
and it is that out of this years election
the Republican party carried no State
which was not Republican before. Ben
Butler is beaten in Massachusetts,, but
the Republican party is in minority,
even in that State. In the other cleo
tions there are no important changes.
The Republican triumph of yesterday
consists in the election to the Gov
ernorship of New York man whom
this Republican administration spewed
out of Office not long ago. The Demo
cratic party again appears as the party
of invincible hope, of perennial vigor,
which no quarrel within the party and
no foe without can conquer.
The imperial decisive State votes for
the town-meeting Government, for the
Democratic principle, the American
principle, and protests against the de-
struction of the republic by. a central
power. The Democratic party once
more rises up, party of shining devo-
ton, of unalterable convictions, that
will die only with the republic.