The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-11-13
COMMENTS on THE ELECTION.
What the Papers Say at Present.

canvass which the Democrats 50 defiant
ly announced at the extra session of Con-
gress. Tho questions which were then
placed before the people have been
thoroughly understood, and everything
has been subordihated TO ther1.. The
almost uniform and very remarkable
gains show that public opinion has been
quietly but completely aroused, that the
solid South, whatever its purposes or
spirit, will not bu allowed to, get In the
North the electoral votes which 1t needs
to take control of the National Govern
ment.-N. Y Times, Rep.
There was one hopeful sign exhibited
yesterday In all parts of this State. 1t
was the dissatisfaction with machine pol
itics openly expressed by honest men of
all parties. Somo manifest this by
"scratching," others by "bolting," and
still greater number, who did neither,
expressed it in language or manner too
plain to be misunderstood. Many Ra-
publicans who voted for Cornell did not
hesitate to express, In the most decided
terms, their opinion of his evident unfit
ness for the Office. They voted for him
under protest. constrained, as they
thought, by the relation of this election
to national affairs and to the future DOM
inance of their party. A large number
of the followers of Kelly were alike
deposited.-N. Y. Journal Of Commerce,
Dem.
In spite of all this; In spite of the
double opposition Of a powerful party
and desperate faction, tho principle
upon which Mr.. Kelly planted himself
with such candor and bravery have been
fairly and triumphantly Tindicated. The
defeat of Iucius Robinson is the triumph
of the party. Some of our misguided
friends may not be able to see this at
present, but it will become palmer every
day for the next six months. The elimi-
nation of the perfidious rule-or-ruin
policy Of Mr.. Tilden from the party in
this State will do more to make future
victories possible than anything else that
wisdom and Democratic loyalty could
have suggested.-N. Y. Star, Kcllys paper.
The success of the rest of the Demo-
cratic ticket only makes the overthrow
of Mr., Tilden more glaring and conspic-
uous. 1t is clear that but for his inter-
their whole ticket, Governor and all.
at the head of the ticket, as he was urged
L
would to-day be Governor elect. But he
would not, and his obstinate and selfish
ambition has brought an entirely need
less defeat upon his party. That ought
to finish Mr.. Tilden, and doubtless it
does. He will no more be heard of in
national nor, we should think, in State
politics.-M y Herald, Ind.
Henceforth no intelligent person will
mention him seriously as possible can
didate for the Presidency. Neither will
any body mention him as possible cam
didate for the honors Of his own State.
His 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 permitted himself to be deprived.
He lashed his own political corpse as
closely as he could to the living candi-
date 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.-M Y. World, Dem.
Men of the South, you have your an
swer. You had almost clutched the Ma
tional Government. Had you been a
little less eager, had the pirates crew re-
mained hidden under matches only lit
have been too late. Thanks to the Con-
federate Congress, the recent session
showed the Southern purpose. The coa-
lition OF Southern rebels and Northern
sympathizers rashly threatened to stran-
gle the Union unless permitted to rule it.
The work of long session was con-
demned by Senator Hill in his recent
declaration that no Southern man of self
respect would ever admit that rebellion
was q crime. These acts and words came
like fire ball in the night to awaken the
North. The real intent of the South was
seen, and st once the North answers.
The history of the country for twenty
years has been settled in one Summer.
Let the South do what it may, from this
time forth; it has planted convictions
already which a quarter of a century will
not uproot. This day the solid South is
further from the rule of the country by
more than twenty years than it was when
President Hayes took the oath of office.
IN. Y. Tribune, Rep.
Mr.. Tilden can be set aside only for
cause; and there are honest Democrats
enough to look to it that no specious or
light cause-no suggestions of eSpedi-
ency from quack statesmen affecting dis
nterestedness- shall suffice. There is q
principle at stake as well as policy, and
the small plotters who have encouraged
the conspiracy which has cost US New
York will find, before they are half done,
that the courage and persistence will not
be wanting to right all the wrongs that
have been perpetrated and to settle the
account with them besides. We by no
means give up the fight for 1880. In the
history of wars and parties many vic
tory has been snatched from even greater
reverses. The work to be done must be
thorough, at once bold and ,unsparing.
Whilst the politicians at Washington are
wrangling among themselves the people
at home must organize. Needless bag
gage must be left behind. We can afford
to carry no dead wcights.-LouisviHc Cou-
ier-Journal, Dem.
These are only State elections, but
the popular feeling that has carried
them is national and the Republican
success was most complete in those
States in which the national was least
distracted by local and personal things.
This was inevitable when great section,
lately in arms to break up the nation,
was made politically solid by the same
feeling of hostility. 1t must always be
inevitable when there is political con-
federate dangerous to the nation; for that
peace which is requisite to the industries
of civilized States depends on the supre-
macy of the National Government. If
the Southern party would have Northern
State elections controlled by State affairs,
let them abolish that state of things
which makes hostility to the supremacy
of the nation, and hate for all who main
tanned it during their rebellion, not only
qualification for State, county and
town offices, from tho greatest to the
most petty, but condition of social toll
eration.-Cincinmahi Gazette, Republican.
Had Cornell been defeated and the ac-
ceptablc Republican State candidates elec.
ted, the electoral vote of New York would
have been reasonably assured to the Re
publican Presidential candidate next
year; but with the only positive Repub-
lican triumph stained by the embraces OF
Tammany jobbers, tho Democracy Of
the nation will turn hopefully to
the controlling Commonwealth of the