The New York herald., 1879-11-07

Mr.. Cornell is not elected by O
majority, but by mere plurality.
The two democratic candidates for Gov
ernor have received twenty-five or thirty
thousand more votes than were gwen
to the republican candidate. The natural
inference-the inference which democrats
throughout the country are sure to draw
is that democratic candidate for the Presi-
dency popular enough to reunite the party
in New York has excellent chances for car
rying the State next year. That Is to say'
a Presidential candidate who should re-
ceive all the votes given to both Robinson
and Kelly would distance candidate re-
ceiving only the votes given to Cornell.
The aggregate vote of 1880 will indeed be
larger than the aggregate vote OF 1879; but
| if the same proportions are maintained the
reunited democracy would sweep the State.
The actual result in New York, although
discouraging, will by no means reduce the
democratic party to despair. If the demo-
Gratis are wise enough to profit by their
chastisement; if their defeat in State
which is the pivot of the Presidential cam
vass shall render them more cautious and
prudent; if it cures the party in Congress
of the kind of antics it cut at the last regu-
lar session, and, in a milder form, at the
extra session, the party will still have a
chance of carrying this pivotal State and
electing the next President. Every intelli-
gent politician has long seen that the Presi-
Dental election hinges on the vote of New
York AS Senator Conkling stated in
his speech to the Saratoga Convention,
and, more recently, in his speech in
Brooklyn, the democratic party needs
only forty-seven electoral votes in
addition to the one hundred and thirty
eight of the solid South, and if New York
goes democratic it will furnish thirty-6ve
Of the needed forty-seven. The State Of
Indiana will supply more than the other
twelve. Indiana is democratic State, and
it has fifteen electoral votes. New York
and Indiana tceether, if both 60 demo-
cratic, will add fifty electoral votes to the
one hundred aud thirty eight of the solid
South, which will make three more than
are necessary to elect democratic
President. The democratic party need
borrow no trouble about the recent repub-
lican victories in the other Northern States
if it can carry New York and retain its hold
on Indiana. But without New York it has
no possible chance. In military phrase,
New York is the key. of the Presidential
position. If Mr.. Cornell had been chosen
Governor by o majority. instead Of mere
plurality, the Presidential contest would
Ho Rnt
much as the two democratic candidates had
majority of the votes between them it is
obvious that if all the democratic votes had
been given to one candidate that candidate
would have been elected over Mr.. Cornell.
| 1t is this state of the vote which causes
toreboding anxiety among the intelligent
republican politicians OF the State, who are
more discouraged than elated over the
result OF the recent election. Among that
part Of the republican press which raises
| a cry of warning, instead Of shouts of ex-
| ultation, is our shrewd and keen-sighted
contemporary, the Commercial Advertiser.
This astute and intelligent journal said
| yesterday:-
It must be clear to the minds Of all men that II
| the democrats had been united Mr.. Cornell would
have been Overwhelmingly defeated. Inc republican
| party would have been demoralized and gone down
under the pressure Of seventy-ive thousand major
| ity. Thousands who voted for him on Tuesday would
have either voted for Robinson remained from
| the polls. The feeling against Mr.. Cornell and the
men who unwisely forced his nomination was in
and bitter and widespread the vote for Gov
| ornor shows. President Hayes aud the mombers OF
his Cabinet could not have moderated the anger OF
| the offended republicans of the State. Nothing but
| the fight made by Mr. Kelly and the furor demon
strated in his favor which made Mr.. Cornells cleo
| ton appear as q foregone conclusion, calmed down
th.a tad ald ei ft0p fha
sober second thought they became satisfied that Mr..
Kellys bolt must lead to Mr. Corneils election. and
that their efforts would not defeat him. The entire
action OF the Saratoga Convention was brainless and
| stupid.
| This emphatic exposure of republican
weakness is all the more noteworthy from
the fact that the Commercial Advertiser gave
a loyal and Jealous support to the republi-
can ticket which it disapproved. Another
republican contemporary, the Times, had an
article yesterday in similar vein. Its
| judgment cannot, perhaps, be regarded as
| quite so disinterested rs that of the Com
! mercial Advertiser since the Times kept up nm
undertone of growing through the CANVASS
But both of these republican journals take
substantially the same view. Neither of
them thinks the prospect very bright for The
republican party in New York next year
without wiser management than has pre-
vailed in the recent canvass. The Times,
like the Commercial, recognizes the fact that
Mr.. Cornell's success is solely due to the
democratic schism, and that if the divided
democracy had been united Mr.. Cornell
would have been badly beaten. The Times
says =
Itoro ara tha obvious facts .The dom ocrats had
two candidates for Governor. the republicans
The ''bolting democratic candidate obtained o vote
of at least 900 throughout the State. 20 900
more than the estimated majority of the regular
publican the regular democratic candidate. In
other words IL the vote Governor bo held to DO q
test OF republican and democratic strength in this
state the republican party has been shown to be in
a minority OF 25 900 votes On the other hand. II
the vote on Lieutenant Governor, which both
democratic factions were united, be taken Us test
OF party strength the republicans would seem to
small majority in tho state or, at tho worst.
TO have a very small majority against them.