The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-11
ELECTION VICTORIES.

real party triumphs were recorded
for the Democrats in New jersey !
and Virginia. which were both
doubtful. "Grand Republican VIC
tory in Connecticut" one exchange
claims. The Nutmeg State is Rel
publican by nature and instinct, and
with one or two exceptions has been
regularly carried by that party
The Democrats never dreamed OF
winning there. hence the enemy
can find nothing to boast over In
Connecticut. AS well might the
Democrats plume themselves over
carrying Mississippi. Much stress
is laid upon the circumstance that
Massachusetts, was won" by the
Republicans. Will some one kindly
mention the time when the State |
was carried by the Democrats! Last
wear Ben Butler was elected Cows
ernor, not be .ause he was a Demo |
crat, for that he was not. He was
simply Ben Butler, the laboring
mans friend, the Greenbacker, the
anti-Republican; and being good
organizer and a hard worker, he
pulled through. 1t was not Dem
ocratic victory, for there were more
Republican voters in Massachusetts
last year-as there has been every
year since the opening of the war
than Democratic. It was simply a
Butler triumph. Last Tuesday the
Republicans claimed their own, and
Butler wasn't able to stay them.
| It wasn't a Republican vic
tory for Minnesota, for the
State belongs to the party. Ii the
| Democrats had won there would
have been a triumph; but they
didn't win, and what is more, didn't
hope to. The Republicans could as
consistently claim credit for carrying
Nebraska where there are hardly
enough Democrats to manage the
State if the other party should all
move out. In New Jersey the
Democrats secured agood victory,
increasing their majority from about
1000 last year to nearly three times
the number, in the face OF hard
fighting opposition. Republicans
claim most credit for what they did
, in New York, and what did they
do? They were beaten to the ex-
. tent of 10000 votes in a State that
, has gone Republican three times to
: once Democratic, ever since the par
ties came into existence. Last year
: Cleveland had majority OF
: 1872 900, and this year, bis
l ! party scores only about 10000
8 majority and from these the ignor'
8 ant are claiming that the Democrat:
8 were really defeated last week. a
b statement of the vote has not ye
t reached US, but when 1t comes VI
IS will see that the Democrats police
T as many votes this year as they dit
/, last. Cleveland's majority in 1888
n was due less to the numerical
d strength of the Democracy than t.
Z, the fact that Republicans refused t
+ 20 to the polls and vote for Folgel
g who had been nominated by frau
10 and forgery. Last Tuesday the Re
1. publicans turned out, voting thei
ID full strength, as did the Democrats
1t and the force Of the two parties
E. shown, the Democrats being in th
r. lead. In Pennsylvania the Den
10 ocrats were not defeated, unles
h the party was whipped in low
N last month. Last year the Poop
Of revolted against bossism, the Repu'
Be licai party divided; and q Democr'
We was elected Governor, not becau'
IN he was Democrat, nor by the vot
be of that party. but for the reason TIL
no he was not a political "bOss," viii
er his opponents were bosses, or Il
en- puppets of them, Pennsylvania
y, Republican, and the party haYil
ill reunited has simply taken what
lid longs to it. A real party victo
les was achieved by the Democrats
is Virginia, where they recover
he their State from the hands OF
zen Malone mob that had brought
SITS into such i'll repu5e.
vas Altogether, the Democrats ha
eat more cause for colgratulation th
tn, the Republicans. The former
bile achieve some triumphs. while
npt latter did not.
e of
inl IN WASHINGTON, the other G
the the female infant Of the Chin
we minister was subjected to the CT
mo- operation of having her big toe b