Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-14
THE REPUBLICAN VICTORIES.

Republicans, despite tne Anost ueSpeiate
endeavors of their opponents. The ma
iority of Townsend in Ohio is several thou
sands larger than that obtained by Foster
last year, while the Democratic majority of
II, 900 in 1878 in Indiana has been cancelled,
and replaced by handsome Republican
plurality. The Democrats had boosted
that they would carry Indiana, and not
improbably Ohio also. And since there
had been no means of ascertaining whether
strong popular movement had set IN
there, the presumption was that the
best to be hoped for would be a re-
duction of the Democratic majority In
Indiana. Such Republican victory as
has been gained in Ohio, with reduction
o. the strength of the Indiana Demo-
crats to four or FIVE thousand, would
have been cause enough for congratula-
ton, for it would have virtually as
sured both those States to Garfield next
month. The actual result, however, sur
passes the most sanguine anticipations,
and proves that the trick of the
Democracy in putting Union General at
the head of their ticket has deceived no
body, while on the other hand the solid
South has infused the Republicans with
new vigor and determination. The fight
in Indiana must be regarded as fair and
full test of the Demoe cratic strength. They
have made it under advantages which they
will not enjoy next month. They have
been enabled to concentrate all their forces
there, and they set out with possession of
the State Government, and with the
prestige of large majority and ten years
of unbroken rule If under these circum.
stances they have not only failed to main
tain the ground they already held, but have
been driven from their positions all along
the line, and have sustained tremendous
defeat, it is clearly impossible that they
can rally again in time for the final
struggle. In Ohio they had made ''still
hunt" and it is reported that they had
spent a great deal of money. All it
did for them was to bring out an increased
Republican majority, however, and they
are forced from every point of vantage in
the two October States. The Republican
victory in Indiana is unquestionably the
most significant There the work of the
party was uphill from the beginning. 1t
had to make an aggressive fight, and to
conquer well organized and long estab.
lished Democratic majority, That it
should have been able to effect this indi-
Gates that distrust of the Democratic
party is by no means extinct, and that the
apprehensions arising out of the Southern
programme have taken a strong hold upon
the minds of the Northern people, Once
more the Democracy is made to realize the
futility of disengaging itself from its past
history. Once more the people have
thrust aside the stalking. horse it has set
up, and have dealt with it from the stand.
point of its own deserts.
The effect of these Republican victories
upon the Presidential election can scarcely
be exaggerated. The evidence of power
full Republican reaction is too overwhelm-
ing to be denied. 1t must exert an almost
controlling influence throug hout the North,
and henceforward the Democrats can count
with confidence upon no single State out
side of the solid South. The fraud and
force programme has secured l3S electoral
votes in that region-though it may be
possible to doubt even that at this moment
and in so doing has destroyed the chance
of gaining the AZ votes at the North which
are needed to elect Hancock. The Demo-
Gratis must now stake everything upon New
York, and yet these victories have made
their chances in New York less hopeful
than ever. If they could carry that
Stateand two others, either Connecticut and
New Jersey, or Connecticut and Nevada,
they might still win. But the demoraliza-
ton caused by the loss of Ohio and Indiana |
will make all their efforts difficult, and as
the New York Herald yesterday pointed |
out, there is considerable probability that
one OF the New York factions may form |
an alliance with the Republicans, and SO
make the contest hopeless for Hancock. |
The Democrats needed the incentive of |
some positive success in October to assure |
them New York, but they have now the |
knowledge that while to lose that State is
to lose everything, the prospect of carry
ing it has been terribly diminished by these |
elections. Yet they must concentrate upon
that State, for it is their only remaining |
chance. Probably they will cease to make
special efforts henceforth save in the three |
States which are necessary, but they must |
devote whatever resources they can muster |
to the Empire State. Before the October |
elections the Republican prospects in
New York were very promising, and now |
they are brighter than ever. The mag |
nifcent Republican procession held there
on Monday night proves that there is plenty |
of enthusiasm in the party, and from this |
on it will be redoubled. 1t is true that |
the final struggle is still to come, but the |
Democrats have now to contend against
the most depressing influences, and above
all they have to withstand all the tendency |
to stampede which such manifestations of
the current of public opinion inevitably |
create. They are not beaten yet, but they |
are in position not much more encourag-
ing than Louis Napoleon and his army |
occupied at Sedan, when the German lines
were being frightened and drawn closer
around them, preparatory to the fatal
event.
THE ONLY REMAINING DANGER.
The Republican party is exposed to but
one real danger NOW. and il is the danger |