The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-11-15
OPINIONS AND COMMENTS.
The Newspapers on the Result.
New York Tribune.1


The result makes Republican success pos
sibe in the next Presidential contest. If new
York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania had
all followed Ohio In going Democratic this
year, few would have been hopeful enough. TO
believe that so overwhelming IA current could
have been turned back in n single year. Now,
everybody can see that fighting ground is
left; that the Republicans can fairly hope by
good conduct and good fortune to carry every
State they had in 1880; and that, as against
party SO prone to bunder and with so many
chances to blunder as the Democrats, their
prospect for carrying enough of them is more
than fair.
New York Herald
Although the result throughout this State
was practically Al rcvolution-for n Demo-
cratic majority reduced from 100, 900 10
"a, 600 or Whereabouts implies an over
whelming chau9e-yet tho Republicans can
hardly congratulate themselves upon oil
their vote as legitimate gain for their party.
They must not count il without consideration
of their friend John Kelly. There is no doubt
that a large part of the vote cast for Re
publican candidates represents the treason of
Tammany hall TO the Democratic candidates.
New York passes into
the category of doubtful States in the Presi-
dental election of 1884. and the managers OF
the Democratic party have nobody but them
selves To blame for II.
New York Worldl
The result reaches further and rises higher
publicans 1t means 1884. II means n change
at Washington. lt means that the people are
tired OF the ruling party. 1t means the vim
dicaton of popular self-government. All at
tempts to divert attention from the fact that
yesterdays contest was the decisive skirmish
| in the Presidential battle failed. One marked
feature of the Democratic victory in New
York is the evidence it affords of the total fail
ure of the Republican attempt to hoodwink the
people on the tariff issue. The effort TO drag
fpfsN oil,
as in Ohio. Six months ago the Republicans
were jubant over the thought that they had
fixed the issue on the Democracy, and that
their opponents were on the wrong side of
the question. The election in New York
shows plainly that the drift of the tide Is with
the Democracy. In Ohio the Republicans de-
clared that the liquor interests contributed
to their defeat. In this State the liquor in
terests were In their favor, and did their best
TO defeat the Democratic State ticket.
New York Morning Journal
New York still retains her place in the col
umn of Democratic States, although, of
course, 10y majority far below the phe-
nomenal one which carried Dir. Cleveland
into the Governors chair a year ago. While
Republicans have made enormous gains all
over the state compared with the result
year ago, the Democrats have done as well rs
if not better than they expected. Twenty
thousand majority Is not very large, but 1t is
enough.
[St. Louis Globe Democrat
A sudden change has come over tho politi-
cal prospect of the country within the last
twenty-four hours. Where there were doubts
and ominous shakings of the head rs to the
future there Is now cheerful confidence. The
freaks of the elections of last year stand
forth I'm their true light. There was no por-
manent strength in the ebullition which
made Butler Governor of Massachusetts, and
gave Cleveland the astounding majority of
200, 900 in New York. These were not evil
dences that the people were ready for the
change which would place the country under
Democratic administration. They signified
merely n dissatisfaction with the methods
adopted by certain Republican managers.