Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-11-07
paiIp Aenntbet Journal.
Augusta, Friday Morning, Nov. 7, ~.
New York.

New York.
The democratic organs tired to keep
their courage up the day after the late
election by claiming New York, although
they admitted the election of a republican
governor and republican Legislature. Since
then the returns received have increased
the plurality of Cornell and enlarged the
republican victory so that the democratic
ROSTERS have ceased to crow, but the or
gans still family express the hope that
there is yet chance for them to carry the
State next year, because Cornell has not a
majority over all.
This is frail ground for hope. If Cor
nell's nomination had been such as to
unite the republican party instead of dis
uniting it, he would have had clear ma
jority in all probability Though a strong
man himself, the nomination of Cornell
under the circumstances was not the
strongest one the republicans could have
made. Next year the republicans will
have nothing to prevent them bringing
out every vote for the Presidential ticket
They will be united and strong. No last
ing division or weakness will result to the
party from the temporary division of this
year. There is no bitterness existing
which will not soon disappear under the
influence of the national contest.
But the breach existing in the democrat
ic party is irreconcilable. The fight this
year has laid low great leader Of the
party-a man of skill and cunning as an
organizer, ofunbounded pecuniary means
. power in the State and out Of it-and
his overthrow by the Tammanyites will not
be forgiven or forgotten by the men who
voted for Lucius Robinson last Tuesday.
And Kelley and his followers are as res
dilute and determined in the course
they have pursued, and as unfor-
giving as the Tilden wing. But the
fight between them this year served to in
crease the democratic vote in the aggre-
gate Each wing brought out its last man
TO vote for Kelly or Robinson, as the case
might be. and between the two every vote
that could be made to count for the de-
mocracy was brought out. Mr.. Tilden
distributed Of his "barl" literally. On
this point the Star, ? Kelly organ, said in
its Wednesday, issue: lin the handy CT
''pher lexicon of S. J, Tilden, Smith NJ.
l..Weed and Edward Cooper, the plain
..English word cash masquerades as
1" .Copengagen.' Copenhagen has been
.'busy factor in the campaign just ended.
"When the Sage of Greystone three weeks
..ago publicly announced thathe would not
contribute toward the expenses of the
Robinson canvass, the sly old fossil was
"simply playing possum. Possibly his
contribution may have been delivered
Through the scapegoat nephew. At all
''events, the money was put up for Robin
..son and was used without stint or scru-
'.ple." soto
fMr. Tilden did this to obtain votes for
Robinson. the Kelly side followed in the
same way, and between the two factions
every voter that could be reached was
brought to the polls. This makes the ag-
gregats democratic vote very large, much
larger that it would have been but for the
fight between Tilden and Tammany.
So while the division in the republican
party served to make stay-at-home repub-
licans and ''scratchers," and thus reduce
the aggregate vote, the fight in the dem
ocratic party worked contrariwise and
brought out q very full vote.
Next year New York will be as certain
to give a majority for the republican can
didate for President as Iowa, Wisconsin,
or Massachusetts,. Cornell will make a
splendid Governor, and in 1881 republi-
can will be elected to fill the seat in the
United States Senate now occupied by
Herman. ...