Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-05
Among the Politicians.
THE FEELING AS TO THE RESULTS OF Yesterdays
ELECTIONS.


CARDS the elections yesterday Is .mixed." A
democrat feels all right, with some misgivings;
and republican feels ''SOlid p" but one OF the
component parts OF his solidity is the belief that
the state ticket in New York Is elected. He Is
waiting hopefully for-as 1t was phraSed at re-
publican headquarters this morning-the big
back counties to be heard from" The talk and
calculations are alone of New York. The re-
publican victory In Massachusetts, and the de n
Ocratic walk-over in Yazoo are regarded as side
issues only" On the whole, the democrats
seem to feel in better spirits than their oppo-
nents. This is not due, they admit, wholly to
substantial results, but to the fact that they
got more than they expected They had braced
themselves for pretty bad Waterloo In New
York, and are SO surprised that they have EVIL
IDENTIFY carried the state ticket with the excep-
ton OF Robinson, that they exhibit moderate
degree Of joy. The republicans, on the other
hard, had confidently prepared themselves for
a grand victory in New York, and the fall that
has evidently come to them being unexpected,
more than satisfied when they cast their eyes
over the whole field.
EX-SENATOR MITCHELL,
Of oregon, very fairly presented the republican
SatiOn with THE STAR reporter. He Said Il am
very well satisfied with the elections yesterday
except In New New YORK. | don't IKE the indIca, M;so
victory is not complete unless we get that"
In reply to the question whether the elections
yesterday meant Grant, he said: 'There is
the general drift of all republican politics seems
to be towards him."
REPUBLICAN HOPES OF HAVING THE NEW YORK
STATE TICKET.
The republicans are contentfng themselves,
but all the time hoping that later returns may
give them the New York state ticket. 1t is evil
dent, however, that they havn't got what they
wanted to make the Ohio boom unanimous.
They are forced to admit that 'f the state ticket
is democratic )" New York is democratic state,
and will cast its vote for the presidential candi-
date of that faith if the party can be united
upon one man.
MR.. TILDEN HAS FEW FRIENDS
among the democrats here, as most are south
ern men. For this reason there is a general
prediction that his failure to carry New York
yesterday for Robinson places him on the shelf.
so far as the Presidency is concerned. There Is,
however, a perceptible feeling among most OF
them that the old gehtleman's defeat was not
so overwhelming as to totally destroy his grip
on things political. AL admit, with Mr. Mitch
ell, that while
GENERAL GRANT SEEMS TO BE THE COMING MAN.
that there is nothing in yesterdays election
which tended directly to help his boom. One
point that the democrats lay particular stress
upon is the fact that the republicans persisted
inmaking the issues in New York Of a national
character. They cite that in Ohio the same
issues were made and though the democrats
were defeated on them, the political success In
New York shows that those issues cannot make
ofBayard as the only man for the democrats
Gen. Hancock is also spoken of strongly.
THE MEMBERS OF THE ADMINISTRATION
express themselves very well pleased with yes
terday's elections. They also claim that much
Of the republican success Is due to administra-
t1on influences and work. They have by their
presence and influence done much for the party
and evidently think that this should be recog-
nized. One member of the Cabinet to-day said
to the STAR reporter that he thought the solid
front OF the republican party was due more to
the course OF the administration than any other
cause: that it had been hard at work to reconcile
an rnv1lyc n ly,Doe oe,aN
with the result.
THE FRIENDS OF SECRETARY SHERMAN
can't see anything Of Grant boom in New
York. They say that Senator Conkling after
to other hands. The credit should therefore go
to the workers.
A Prominent DEMOCRAT
view" on u the eE Election IKE repy er
was received: 1.-THE election OF the state ticket
in New York shows that the democratic party is
In the majority In the state and the controlling
political element there. The defeat Of Cover
nor Robinson through bolt on the part OF
faction organized and carried out expressly an
ayowedly for that purpose with the ulteri0r de
sign OF expressing and enforcing a ProteS
against Mr. Tilden's management OF the part
and against his ascendency in 1t as presiden,
tial candidate would naturally and logically seem
to indicate that he cannot, under any circum-
stances, command the strength Of the party
sufficient to carry the state in presidential
contest. There is class of democrats, perhaps
most accurately represented by Henry Waiter
staked upon MI. Tilden. These viii
naturally 1sds endeayor to avoid or eyade
Governor Robinson during the canvass that his
fortunes were not necessarily identical with
those of Mr.. T1lden, and also by urging the fact
which is already well known, that Mr.. Potter,
who is elected, is as much OF a Tilden man In
the general sense as Robinson. But this will be
nothing more than the sad and shallow sophis-
I,nxy butt
own ingenuity. The mind Of the democratic
party In the country at large will be made up
to-day, and the conviction that is now settling
down upon fhe democratic mind will be based
upon facts and figures that cannot be disputed,
and will hence be beyond the power OF any So
phiStry, however adrOit, to change. Had Rob-
1nson been elected there was a sort OF common
consent among the democratic leaders and
thinkers all over the country that no
opposition should be made to Mr.. Tilden in
the next convention. Had Robinson been elect
ed his declarations OF independence so far as
Ttlden's presidential candidacy was concerned
would not have been admitted in argument by
Mr.. Tflden's friends therefore, they will not
now be admitted by his opponents. The gen.
eral public impression was from the start like
all public impressions, hard to explain, perhaps,
but still undeniable that the election Of Robin
son meant the nomination Of Tilden beyond
peradventure. Whatever may have been the
relations of the two men in fact the body of the
people yoked them together indissolutely. The
victory Of the one would have been necessarily
the victory OF the other; therefore, by those sim
pie and direct processes of reasoning, through
which masses OF people always reach their con-
cluSionS, it will be assumed or calculated that
the defeat OF the one must necessarily mean the
defeat Of the other. There can be no event or
no new conjuncture of circumstances between
this time and the meeting of the democratic con-
yentfon to alter or modify this conviction"
Secretary Schurz ON the Ute NegOti-
atiOmS.
A dispatch from Providence gives a letter
which A. c. BarStow, Of the Board Of Indian
Commissioners, has received from Secretary
SchurZ. The Secretary says Of the rescue of the
Meeker family from the Utes, and the peace
mission to them:-It is now, think, generally
admitted that had the war continued without
the Intervention of Special Agent Adams, the
captive women and children recently rescued
would have been sacrificed. To save them was
our first duty. The latest dispatches received
from Gen. Adams, who had so far performed his
mission with remarkable spirit and Judgment,
greatly encourage the hope that the whole
trouble will be peaceably composed in accordance
with the instructions given him. may add that