New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-10-14

changes in temperature Thermometer yesterday
Highest, 600; lowest. 40; average. 500.
Now let every Republican remember that
over-confidence in the next three weeks woult
be q crime
The experiment of putting the meanest maj
in the United States on Presidential ncke
has not proved brilliant success.
The Democracy might have done better
with the old ticket after ALL MIR. Tiden, will
all his little drawbacks, is at least able, and
knows the difference between a tariff and
railroad time table.
The interesting details regarding Mexico
which General Grant gave the Boston mer'
chants yesterday cannot fail to awaken re-
newed interest in that richly favored land
especially as a field for American enterprise
General Grants remarks have all the advan-
tage of being based on personal observation
and free interchange of opinions with Mex
lean statesmen.
What does that Indiana Supreme Court
| think of itself about these days! 1t sOlled Its
ermine for the sake of n partisan advantage,
| and has seen that very action afford the Re
| publicans the chance for giving its friends
the soundest drubbing they have had III half
| a generation. 1t upset the Constitution TO
| gain trick, and finds that it has lost the
whole game, for State and Nation. too. VINO
can guess which to-day despises itself the
more heartily, the Court or the late MIR. Eng
lishf
| The County Conventions of the Democratic
| factions met yesterday and went through the
| old see-saw of talk about harmony. One lit
| tie incident in the proceedings of the Tam
| many Convention was worth all the speeches.
| 1t was when one of the delegates, on
hearing Augustus Schell's name, called for
| three cheers " for the next Mayor of New
| york" This is what Mr.. Kelly means, and
| the Irving Hall Democracy may as
well open their mouths and shut
their eyes, and take the dose as
meekly as they have taken all Mr..
Kelly's prescriptions. The humility of
the Irving Hall Democracy is the sweet
est spectacle in politics. They have
lain down before Kelly. and let him
play Juggernaut to his hearts con-
tent They are covered with the dust
of humiliation, and only cry for more All
they ask for now is apparently that MT. Kelly
shall make them vote for Cunning 5. Bed
ford as well as for Augustus Scheil. Then the
cup of their abaSement will be full.
Meanwhile Mr.. Kelly takes no notice
of their deferental communication ask
ing him to take his choice among twelve
candidates for Mayor. Why should he? He
has made his choice already, and too well
they know the name. Let them wrlggle.
New-York is watching, half in amusement,
half in disgust, to see how limp they are III
their masters hand
The news from the October States has only
grown better for the Republican party, and
justities all the JOY with which it Is received
all over the Union. The Republican plurality
in Ohio on Secretary OF State is estimated at
20, OOO-a gain of 5000 on last year, and of
nearly $4,000 on the October election in
1876; and the rest of the ticket is said to
lead this candidate by 5000. Fifteen RepuOl
can Congressman are known to have been
elected, leaving the Democrats only five-a
Republican gain of six. These splendid
results are beyond doubt. But 1t is in In
diana that the Republican victory has out
grown all expectation. Every hour the
turns have improved until now Mr.. Por-
ters plurality is estimated at 5000. 1t is sure
to be the largest Republican plurality
at an October election since 1866,
period of fourteen years. Late
in the day there was brief
squirt of Democratic claims, but they soon
subsidized. The election of the entire Repub-
lican State ticket is now conceded, and what
is of greater importance, the election of IA
Republican Legislature. This means a Repub-
lican Senator from Indiana next March, and
one more nail in the coffin of the Rebel
Congress. The Republicans have GER
tainly gained one Congressman, probably
two, with possibility of three In carrying
both these States at this election. the Repub
lican party has done what 1t has not done
before since the campaign which ended IN
the triumphant election Of u. S. Grant over
Horatio Seymour and it has exceeded in both
States the majOritics of that year.
THE NEXT And HIGHEST DUTY
Now let us have no more Electoral Com
mssions Tuesdays victories, steadily grow
ing brighter with the later returns, assure the