Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-10-20
The Triumph.

The result Of the October elections, sum-
med up, is, in Ohio, Republican majority
of, in round numbers, twenty thousand, and
the election Of fifteen, if not sixteen, out Of
twenty congressman. In 1876 Hayes plu-
rality over Tilden was 1916, his majority
over all 2,747. The present congressional
delegation stands nine Republicans to eleven
Democrats. In Indiana, the election of
Judge Porter, the Republican candidate, by
plurality, stated in the latest advices as
high as ten thousand, the choice of legis-
lature Republican on joint ballot, and the
consequent selection of Republican sue
cessor to United States Senator Mcdonald,
whose term expires March 4, 1881. In 1876
Tilden's plurality was 5,515, and in 1878, in
the election of secretary of state, the Demo-
cratic plurality was 14,l13. The present
congressional delegation stands six Republi-
cans, six Democrats and one Greenbacker.
Seven Republican congressman, if not eight,
are elected to the next house of representa-
tives. The present house contains one hun
bred and thirty Republicans, one hundred
and forty nine Democrats and fourteen
Greenbackers-of whom five, like Mr.. Bar
low Of this state, are, in fact, Republicans,
seven Democrats and two out-and-out Green
hackers. The actual Democratic majority,
on strict party lines, is only two, but when
the Republican and Democratic Greenback
ers return to their old party alliances, as
they do on purely political questions, the
Democratic majority is nine. The gain
made in Indiana and Ohio, with the gain
of three or four made in other states during
the summer elections, wipes out the small
majority the Democrats now have, and the
November elections can be relied upon TO
give President Garfield good working ma
iority in the house of the forty.seventh con-
gress. Republican state legislatures, by the
election of Republican successors to Demo
cratic senators, whose terms expire during
the next two years, will again place the
senate in harmony with the president and
the lower house of congress. Automatically
and politically, the above is substantially
the result of the elections on Tuesday, but
they have a far wider bearing and deeper
significance than can be stated in words
or exhibited in figures. The triumph is so
unexpected, SO overwhelming, so intensely
significant, that the mind does not readily
comprehend it. 1t is difficult to realize that
all the clouds and doubts and fears that
have shrouded this fierce conflict have sud-
denly dispersed, and that the political skies
now rival in brightness the brilliancy of
the glorious autumnal heavens. A bitter
struggle in New York, with the issue still
in doubt, and grave apprehension that the
strife might not end with the November
election, was the outlook to the country at
large on Monday night. But the fruit they
stretched out their violent hands to pluck
has suddenly turned to ashes on the lips of
the beaten and demoralized Democracy. A
great load has been lifted from the spirits of
Republicans, and though their prosecution
Of the campaign during the remaining
three weeks will lose none of its vigor and
aggressiveness, the exhilarating sight of
their enemy in full retreat before them will
give inspiration and buoyancy to their
closing labors.