The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-11-13
Tuesdays Election-Press Comments.

From the editorial comments of leading
papers on Tuesdays election we make the
following extracts:
New York Herald: "This is good time
for the democrats to consider whether 1t is
worth their while to go on making idiots of
themselves. 1t is lot much Of snow-storm,
but it is enough to snow them under oEce
more. The republican nlsjorities are not
large-it is as well for the republican leaders
to remember that fact. Their hold upon the
strong democratic candidate next year, on
sound and honest platform, would give them
trouble, and might defeat them. They ought
to see that their present sectional attitude
and policy are not satisfactory to the people.
In spite of their utmost efforts they have not
decreased the number of doubtful States this
year, and they still! depend upon democratic
follies to help them.
New York Tribune: "a solid North sends
greeting to solid South. Yesterday answers
the last session OF Congress, and all the IN
solent disloyalty which, after growing for
years, found expression there. The grand
and resistless uprising which followed the
shot in Charleston harbor in 1861 finds an
echo in the returns of to-day. Once more the
North is united. The work which men did
with their bullets they have determined not
to spoil with their ballots. Best of all the
republicans have no occasion now to NOM
mate any other than their ablest and worth
lest man, for it Is certain that with such a
candidate they can triumph. They do not
need to get under the shelter of any name,
nor to hesitate in the avowal of their convic-
tiens, nor to shrink from giving its full re-
ward to splendid service.''
The New York World claims that the de-
feat Of Gov. Robinson was due to the wide
spread belief that his nomination was
identified with the presidential nomination Of
Mr. Tilden nl $50, and adds: "Henceforth no
Intelligent person will mention Mr.. Tilden as
a possible candidate for the Presidency.
Neither will anybody mention him as pos
sible candidate for the honors OF his own
State His position in the politics OF bis
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 at least per-
mitted himself to be deprived. He dashed
his own political corpse as closely as be could
to the living candidate of 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 incumbrance
of the other.
New York Express, Tammany organ
ssRobinson's defeat is Tilden's death-knell
| It would be worse than madness for party
to take candidate who not only cannot
carry his State in fair and open election
in which his nomination was distinct issue
bat whose name divided and defeated the
party. Without New York the democrats
cannot elect President. Tilden has beer
swept up on the dry sands by tidal wave
Of popular disgust, and there he will stay te
wither and shrivel into nothingness."
The New York Times: 'sThis is the result
of the aggressive canvass which the demo
Gratis so defantly announced at the extra
session Of Congress. The almost uniform
and very remarkable republican gains show
that public opinion has been quietly but
completely aroused that the solid South
whatever its purpose or spirit, will not b
allowed to get in the North the electora
votes it needs to take control OF the nationa
government"
New York Evening rosJ ''The republic
can success Of yesterday attests, as with the
voice Of q trumpet, the popular condemna.
ton of the proceedings of the democratic
party in Congress and Of the minatory cere
monies with which it dug Tip and sought te
resuscitate dead and buried political dogmas
and proclaims in ringing tones the integrity
OF the nation and the purpose to carry ou1
all it's promises, financial and other"
I. New York Commercial Advertiser: "Gov
Cornell is under more obligations to John
Kelly than to the New York Evening Post,
New York Times and Harper's Weekly for
his election. He may thank his stars that
the Times did not succeed in driving Kelly
from the field. Had it succeeded the State
would have been hopelessly democratic
! New York Journal Of Commerce: "What.