The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23
Maine is Ours.


| Phila. Press.
And SO Maine is Republican after
all. 1t is Shiloh over again. The
Confederates then fancied they had
won great victory. The first day
advanced their banner; but the second
day turned the tide and closed in a
clear Union triumph. So in Maine
! the premature boasts of an assumed
4 Confederate victory die away before
4 the evidence ofa substantial Republi-
can success. The Democratic hopes
\ wither as tire Republican skies
brighten.
The returns are now all I'm except
| from few remote towns. In all the
later reports from the country dis
| tricts the Republican gains are steady
| and irresistible. The districts still to
be heard from doubtless share this uni
form drift; but counting them as they
stood last year the Republicans will
carry the Governor beyond aq uestion.
If the candidate has clear majority,
that will settle the matter. If he has
only plurality, he will still beelected
either by the operation of the new
Constitutional Amendment or by the
choice of the Legislature. The first
returns from the cities and populous
centres were favorable to the Demo-
Gratis; but as soon as the reports from
the country towns began to pour
in the current changed. The explana-
tion is simple and obvious. Mr..
Barnum sent big barrel to Maine on
the eve of the election. 1t was tapped
in the cities and along the main lines,
but it did not reach into the country.
Mr. Barnum played his game shrewdly
but the spirit of the yeomaury was to
much for him.
The Democrats, whose high hopes
are turned to ashes on their lips, will be
correspondingly depressed by this un-
expected and injurious result. The
reaction will more than ceunterbal-
ance all the advantage they derived
from the first eclat. AS for the Re
publicans, three days ago they met
apparent defeat with undaunted
courage and resolution, and, now with
substantial triumph in their grasp,
they will be inspired with new con-
fidence and determination. Through
the Influence of the supposed reverse
in Maine they have been aroused to
the strongest efforts and have enlisted
the active aid of all the business
classes, who were reposing i'm fancied
security; and now, with the tidings
of success, they are animated with
fresh enthusiasm and aMlor. They
gain both effects-the incentive of dam
ger and the glow and fervor of an adj
vancing and triumphant cause. And
in this associated strength of united
impulses they will march on to vic
tory.
There is little chance that the Re
publicans will relax any efforts to
which the presence of supposed peril
has melted them. Gratifying and ell
couraging as is the final issue i'm
Maine, it is still too close to remit any
energy, The wonder is not that the
Republicans have succeeded, but that
the Fusionists have been able to make
such a fight, 1t is amazing that such
an unprncipled coalition could hold
so well together. 1t is amazing that
the infamous conspiracy and usurpa-
ton of last year to steal the State i'm
defiance of the public will should not
have shocked the moral sense of the
whole people, and that there should
not be thousands of the party in whose
name it was perpetrated to rise up and
repudiate it. 1t is amazing that
where the principle and honor were so
plainly on one side the people should
be so evenly divided. Such an ex-
traordinary spectacle must teach the
importance of unremitting vigilance
and exertion throughout the whole
North.