The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-12-03
A Calm Review OF the New York Election.

4 New York Republican who voted for
Hancock thus calmly and dispassionately re-
views the result Of the recent election in that
state
90 not see any IoeGI cause suficient to ac-
count for the loss Of this State and o. the vie
tory. IL is easy enough TO say, If New
Y ork city had Given 60 600 or G5, 600, as was
expected, We should have won the day"
But this Is only another form Of saying "lf
the city or New York had not felt the intlu-
ences that elsewhere diminished the Demo
cratic vote. Hancock would have been elect
ed l'
1t was obvious from the outset of the can
vags that the best hope of the Republicans
would be found in the confidence felt by cap
ital and trade in their financial and tariff pol
icy, not In the diStTust OF those great and re
spectacle interests towards q change in tie
administration Of the Federal government.
But 90 it turned out for after trying all the
cid aspiTauts and appeals the Republican
leaders found these ineffective AID then they
changed front and with signal ability put us
on the defensive before tile business men OF
the North.
We did the same thing in 1856, and thus
elected Buchanan Pierce was elected over
Scott iu 1852 by similar tactics Harrison
beat Van Burcu in 1870 by the same means
Il Is absurd, | thiuk to put the defeat on
the head OF John Kelly. The Democratic
loss In majOTities In this city was relatively
H.
less and Tilden is potential In the adjoin-
ing county OF West Chester we lost 1000 out
OF 3 usual ma iOTity or ., 500. 90 % TIE ON
er end Of the state. In Central and Western
and Northern New York there was large
increase of the Republican majority in near
" all the counties Everywhere, in the towns
and cities especially, the tendencies of opin-
ion helped the Republicans. Why then could
il be expected that this city-the' centre OF
capital and the seat Of commerce and Of en-
Z
duStrv-shoUld have been untouched by in
dIcuCcS that alarmed the same interests
elsewhere Although we saved New Jcr-
5ev. the Democrats losses in that State were
SO great that a similar loss IN New Aork
would have given her vote to GARFIELD by 80,
600 majority.
1t is true that there were certain causes at
work in this State that impaired our strength.
II the battle could have been fought under
more friendly auspices as respects orgauiza-
ton, legal leadership, patronage, money, ana
2 more perfect union OF our tOrcSS-Dadly
demOralzed by the divisions Of 1879 and the
defeat of Iilden IN 1850 for the nomination
it is quite certain We would have saved the
State, in spite Of the great difficulty always
met i'm an attempt to put out party That IS
in power IL prosperous times. The truth Is,
the Democratic paTty7ot New York never
was II q worse conuItOn 10 make success
ful canvass, and II never had more difficult
canvass to conduct tnat in 1880.
Under all the circumstances / think Han
cock made 3 TflEypylCe5tt -lgft. W men you
consider the load English was to carry, how
uusuited Barnum was TO manage p canvass
for ANYBODY else than Iilden-a cOnsummate
politician controlling his organization and
never guided By il, as Hancock was forced
to be-, so unused himself to this sort OF thing;
when veu consider that we undertook one Of
the inip0SSi i5ilitieS Of poljtjcs-to change par
ties in good times and all this too in pre-
sence OF the fact that the battle ground was
TO be New York-a State in the euemy's pos
sessiOn-w here our forces were disorganIzed
and the friends Of the abIPst leaCer dissatis-
fed, I think it folly for the Democratic par
ty to feel discouraged about the future. 1T
has now the best record IL has made since
the war. 1t has shown that it holds Il major
Il uof the people IN lis organization, nOtwth-
standing the enormous disadvantages jt bad
cCuteuded against in this exceptional diff
cult canvass; and we see that q change of
1900 votes would have given it control OF
. the COvCTumeHt.
So far as the State OF New York is con
Cerucd, / hold it to be to-day q Democratic
State in It's popular vote whenever our or
Eauization and resources are even htLf as ef-
fcctiye as those Of the Republicans. (Look
at our gains in members OF Congress and
members OF the Assembly,
What nonsense il Is for the Southern press
and politicians to talk Of surrendeTiug &c
Grant or COnkluC for 1884 Does this mean
that the South has not recovered from the
decentralization that led TO the rebellion, ant
has s0-often shown Itself since TIE war"