The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-11-15
RESULT OF THE ELECTIONS.

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most sanguine anticipated. The people have
become, in q measure, aroused to, the nsces-
sity of rebuking bribery, corruption and Pee.
alation in high places, the exception to the
feeling being more apparent in Virginia thar
elsewhere .. New York, Connecticut, Penn
s~ylvania and wisconsin have each given evil
dente that the people of the North are look
ing to the great Democratic party to relieve
them of the burdens which the unscrupu-
lous, arbitrary leaders of the Republican
party have imposed upon them. New York
has spoken in unmistakable terms. She has
surprised the most ardent lovers of All honest
administration Of government by the quiet
but ell ective manner in which she purified
her legislative halls by the election of a
Democratic majority to represent her at
Albany. The large majority of Republicans
in the State Senate ard Assembly of last
year-in the aggregate 52-has been set aside
by the recent popular verdict and Democrats
will now control those bodies. The disgrace
FIJI scenes enacted by the Republicans in the
Legislature Of that State, at its last session,
thoroughly disguised the people and they
rose up as one man and cast out the bribers
and bribe-taksIs. Hustled, the Republican
candidate for State Treasurer, who was
charged with being Implicated in the bribery
cases at the last session of the Legislature,
was igsominiously defeated BY Maxwell, the
Democratic candidate. &ew York has done
nobly and her sturdy Democracy will see
that she makes still further advances in the
line of Democratic victories.
Connecticut is also purifying her leeisla-
ture, the Democrats gaining Is members in
the Assembly alone. What they gained in
the Senate eur dispatches have not, at this
writing, shed light. The result in Pennsyl-
vania has created great alarm IN the Republi-
can party. Bailey, the Republican candi-
date for State Treasurer has but little over
600 plurality while Garfield carried the State
by 37,276 plurality. This evidence of Dem
ocratic gain in one year upon such a heavy
majority gives birth to the hope
that the days of Republicanism in the old
Keystone State are fast drawing to q close.
The returns from Wisconsin are most graft
flying. The Republicans copcsde that the
Democrats have made = net gain Of 1900
votes, basing their calculation upon the
known net gains in one-half of the
State and, At last advices, were
ready to conceds the election of Falk, the
Democratic candidate for State Treasurer.
Garfield carried the State by 20 ,76s p!ursli-
ty, but Hayes carried it by only 6,141 plural
ity. 1t will thus be seen that Wisconsin 10
not altogether ''given over to q hardness of
heart and reprobacy of mind" but may re-
cant and wheel into Democratic line, which
it is quite possible she may have done at the
recent election. The most noticeable fea-
turs in the elections In three Of the States
above noticed is the evident mistrust which
the voters therein have manifested, of Re-
publicans As custodianso of the peoples mon
ey. 1t is significant Of the fact that the peo-
pie are turning to the Democratic party for
men in whom they can place entire conf
dence.
In the result in Virginia no man, save =
bitter partisan who recognizes the legitimacy
of any means to reach an end, can find cause
for congratulatiou. The Democrats in that
State have earnestly and c~onscientiously lab
ored to create . public sentiment that would
Overwhelm any attempt to bring dishonor
upon the fair fame Of the Commonwealth.
But ignorance and the influence directed by
Northern money wrung from clerk 8 and en-
ployees in tho various Federal Offices, beat
dorr and s;Ia,ond tha v>;o> ~ th> t-t>ll;
gent, honest voters of the State. Tricky pol
~iticians, place hunters Of the names type,
and unprincipled partisans occupying the
lowest positions in the scale Of respectability
united in an attempt to drag down the noble
old State to = most degrading level. In this
they we're seconded by the whole power of
the administration. Six months ago it would
have been impossible to effect the dishonor-
able deed that was contaminated last Tues
day. President Garfield set his face against
it, and scarcely q Republican journal could
be found in the country that gave it sncour-
agement. But the political situation changed.
With the death of Garfield and the subsequent
assumption Of the Chief Magistracy by Ar
thur the necessity arose for moro Republican
strength in the United States Senate. David
Davis was secured and Malone was supposed
to be safe, still the ties by which they were
held were deemed too insecure to hang upon
them all the hopes of the Republican party.
Hence to gain an additional Senator the Ad-
ministration was prepared to sacrifice the
honor Of State, and the unholy combination
with the debt-,epudiating Malone was
formed. In our dispatches we have looked in
vain for an exultant cry, from lead
ing Republican journals, ever the
disgracsful victory Of the Repudia-
tors of Virginia. 1t is only among the
Trays, Blanches and Sweethsarts Of the party