Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-11-14

THE .HERALD" ON THE LOSS
OF NEW YORK.
The New York Herald holds Kelly re-
sponsible for the loss of the Empire State
to the Democracy. That journal says:
No Republican orator DR. manager or
politician Of any stripe whatever can
Justly claim to have done his party so
great a service in this campaign as John
Kelly has done it. If any man Of them
all, from highest to lowest shall weigh
his own claims upon the gratitude Of the
President-elect, and fairly compare them
with claim that might be presented by
John Kelly, he must honestly admit that
the "honored leader " of the Democracy
of this city has outdone him in his bril-
liant and substantial services to the Re-
publican party. How the Democrats
must feel over this case is to be imagined,
but assuredly if the Republicans do not
feel a lively sense of good will for favors
received, they are scandalously lacking in
gratitude. But a little while g Mr..
Kelly made the Republican party a pres
ent Of the Governorship Of this State,
and now he gives them the Presidency
and the National Administration. If
they do not admire and love an opponent
like this they have no nice appreciation
Of how fine a thing it is to have a gener-
Gus foe.
With California and Oregon given to
Garfield, General Hancock has still one
hundred and fifty electoral votes, and If
the thirty-ive of this State were added
he would have exactly the needed one
hundred and eighty-five. New York,
therefore, could have elected him. 1t
depended upon this State to name the
next President, and she has not named
the Democratic candidate. Why? Be-
cause the majority that Democrats fairly
look for from this city, failed through the
reasonable disorganization of the Demo
cratic vote that was brought about by
Kelly's Vaccinations; because, in short,
it did not suit Mr.. Kelly to have the
Democratic party win, if it had to do this
at any expense whatever to his private
schemes for obtaining control of our mu-
nicipal twenty millions. That General
Hancock could and would have carried
this State but for the disorganization and
decentralization of the Democratic vote of
the city brought about by Nh. Kelly
seems to be demonstrated by the returns.
The result in this would be changed by
a change of less than twelve thousand
votes. For convenience of reference we
may take the votes for Tilden and Hayes
as an exhibition Of what is nearly the
natural relation between the parties in
this city on a Presidential vote. If this
is unjust to either side it is to the Democ-
racy, because the Democratic vote must
certainly be held to indicate the results
Of a large Democratic antipathy to Mr..
Tilden. Tammany Hall and all its cor
rupt influences were in the field for
months against his nomination; and
though when it was made they pretended
to accept it, it is morally certain that
much of that virulence held on till the
last. Many distinguished Democrats
were, indeed, determined that the vote
for Tilden should not stultify their own
absolute and emphatic declarations that
he could not carry this State. But eve
if we accept the Tilden vote it shows in
st~ructively for the present case for the
real relation of the party vote. On a
vote Of one hundred and seventy-one
thousand Tilden's majority was fifty
three thousand. If we apply the pro-
portion here indicated to the vote cast
this year Garfield would have obtained
seventy thousand and Hancock one hun
dred and thirty-four thousand. Han
cocks majority would have been, there
fore, sixty-four thousand instead of what
it was, and the thirty-five electoral votes
Of the State would have been passed to
his account. Upon a fair cast Of the vote
Of this county that is the way it would
stand, and Nh. Kelly is the man who is
responsible for the fact hat it does not
stand that way to-day. How the vote
was lost. whether the scandals of the
local ticket excited the disgust Of the
voter against the whole ticket, or whether
there was a regular trade on the electoral
ticket, is a point that Democrats may de-
eide for themselves. Either way the ruin
was worked by Kelly.