Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-11-20
New York World, Democratic.

office.
New York World, Democratic. |
Governor Robinson has bccn beaten
because the impression fomcnted by Mr..
Tiden's political household and allowed by
Mr. Tildeu to prevail, that tho cuuse of
Governor Robinson was his own cause, could
only have been completely dissipatod by
MIR. Tildcn himself. It must be now cyi-
dent to Mr.. TiIden that if he had manfully
answered the appeal which tho World some
weeks ago made to him in the name of tho
great conservative party of this country,
aud mad declined again to be pressed as o
candidate for the Presidency, lie would
have done the Democratic party, the State
OF New York and his country II service
worthy of all honor. His position in na-
tlonaI politics would indeed have been no
bettcr than it is now, except TINT ia that
Gaze he would voluntarily have abdicatcd
with credit the position in rational politics
from which he has now been driven in dis,
| credit. He may not have been us con.
scious perhaps of his own true position in
our politics as he has now been uado to be.
out political liie was as extinct in him then
as it now is, and his condition was as obvi-
Gus then to oil. discerning men us it now
must be to himself. lIcnccfurth no intel
ligent person will mention him seriously as
possible candidate for tho Presidency. Mel
ther will anybody mention him as possible
candidate for the honors of his own State.
Ills position in the politics Of his own State
IS that OF marplot 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 permit
ted himself to be deprived. He lashed his
own political corpse as closely Us he could
to the living candidate of the Democracy of
New York, and if the State has thereby
lost the honest service of tho one, it has at
least been thereby delivered of the incum.
brance of the other.
philadelphia Times, Indepcndcnt.]
The election of Cornell to tho gubcrnato.
rial chair of New York is q Republican sui.
eide. 1t is not II triumph of the Rcpubli
canism that can stand the test of the CON
sdcrate judgment of the people. On tho
contrary, it is the victory of banded plunde
rcrs frou both political camps, and it is a
rcproach to Republicanism that is likely to
end Republican supremacy in the Empire
State. In tho otherwise starless midnight
that envelopes the crushed Democracy of
the North, the success of Cornell must
Haunt IN the face of every honest Republi.
con the base uses to which grand party
can be prostitutcd, md it will be tho one
hope to give promise of the great pivotal
State OF the Union being in the Democratic
column in 1880 Had Cornell been de.
feated and the acceptable Republican State
fbo ,c
New York would have been reasonably
assured to tho Republican Presidential
candidate next year; but with the only posi-
tive Republican triumph stained by the
embraces of Tammany jobbers, the Demo
cracy of the Nation will turn hopcfelly to
the controlling Commonwealth of tho Union
as their reliance for victory. There are
victories at times which are vastly more
disastrous than defeat, aud tho Republican
victory of Cornell is one of them.
TNcw York Times, Republican.
This is the result of the "aggressys" can.
vass which the Democrats so deGantIy an
nounced ut the extra session of Congress.
The questions which were then placed before
the people have been thoroughly understood,
and everything has been subordinatcd to
them. The almost uniform and very re.
markablc Republican gains show that pub
lic opinion has been quietly but completely
aroused, that the solid South, whatever it's
purposes or spirit, will not be allowed to get
in tho North the Electoral votes which it
needs to take control of the National Co
yernmcnt Let us hope that this temperate
but decided expression of the sentiment of
the country will finally dispose OF tho sec
tlonal issue which was so foolishly raised by
the Democracy, and leave opportunity for
the fair settlement of other and more
profitable, if not more important questions.
Philadelphia Times, Independent.
The revolutionists of the North and the
South should understand that tho people
expect to elect the next President of the
United States; that the great mass Of tho
citizens of all parties mean that the man
who may bo tho ohoicc OF tho people shall
be declared elected and inaugpratcd, and
that thcy will care much less for the poilti-
cal opinions or party associations of the
successful candidate than they will for tho
integrity of the solemn judgment of tho
nation Let halt be called in all rovolu-
tionary methods of unsorupuous politicians
to defeat the will of the people in the choico
of tho next President. Tho Democrats
should do it to escape adding tho imitation
of the Republican frauds of 1875 to their
other many inflrmities, and the Rcpubli.
cans should do it not only because Repub-
licanism was created for noblcr and grander
purpose, but also because they can be out
cheated at every turn on the homo stretch
if they shall invite such a struggle.