Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-08-20
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The control of the next House is an
object of sufficient Importance to induce
and Justify strong efforts, and if the past
had not impressed on the Democratic
mind too many lessons on the folly OF
premature eXultation, we should be
strongly inclined to set down the victory
as already virtually won. But the Re-
publican party has heretofore shown
superb capacity to pluck victory from
the laws of defeat. More than once,
when almost distanced in thedecisiveh heat
of a holly contested race that party has
forged ahead on the last quarter and shot
by the judges stand half a length ahead.
Admouished by this kind of experience,
saws the Washington Post, we have
learned not to count political chickens
until they are quite clear OF the shells,
and not to bid the Democratic rooster to
crow until entirely out Of the woods.
When one takes a calm survey of the
situation, looking at the facts OF the
case as they exist to-day, it seems as ii
the probabilities were strongly on the
side of Democratic success. Only a very
lew gains are required to put the organ
~ization Of the next House into Demo
cratic hands. The Democratic party IS
united, while the opposition is burst into
b~elligesent factions, each more DESTROYS
of destroying the other than OF deliver
ing blows on the head of their old enemy.
In almost every Northern State there is
a bitter feud between stalwarts and lib
erals. or administration Republicans and
Garfield Republicans-successors respec-
lively to the Grant and anti-Grant fac
tions Of lS79-S0.
In a number OF States, notably in Ohio
and Indiana, the liquor question has
produced great decentralization in the Re-
publican organization. In all communl-
ties of those States where the German
Republicans held the balance of power,
the Republicans are prepared for defeat,
being satisfied that any result more cheer
full is out of the question. Thus, in Gin
%cinnati, the defeat of two Republican
candidates for Congress is frankly con
ceded. In all human probability there
will be gains of Democratic Congressmen
in New York, several in Pennsylvania,
three to six in Ohio, two Or three in In
diana, two in Missouri, and scattering
gains are confidently expected in othel
States.
The only hope which the Republican
managers have Of securing any offset fol
these losses depends on the success o.
what they call the mt -Bourbon move
ment in the South. That so-callec
movement is an attempt to unite all ele
ments Of opposition in the straight-out
Democracy. Disatfected Democrats,
G~reenbackers, Independents and Repub'
licans are expected to pool their issues,
as the Readjusters and Republicans have
done in Virginia in two campaigns, and
by this means it is family and feebly
hoped that there may be sufficient gains
in the South to compensate for %inevita'
bic and conceded Republican losses in
the North.
But there are up to this time no indi.
cations that the proposed movement will
amount to enough to cut an imposing
figure in the election returns. Indeed
its most earnest supporters confess to
serious disappointment and growing dis
enlargement. They find the obstacles to
the union of discordant elements much
more serious than they expected, and
they are beginning to despair Of a major
ity in the Forty-eighth Congress.