Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-06-21
SHIFTING MAJoRTTTEs.

Among the States that have for one
 cause or another shifted base from time
 to tune so as to get out of the group of
 trustworthy provinces are California,
 Connecticut, Indiana, New Jersey, New
 York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and, in her
 brief career, Nevada. From 1893 to
 lS4O New York was conf-sssdly Demo-
 cratic. when she gave little grace to
 the Wings, only to return again to her
 first love. The Wings again triumphed
 Tn ISIS, and the first Republican victory
 was in 1856. In 1860 the Democrats carried the State by majority of 5O,- l36; Tn 1861 the Republicans had a m .j- ority of 6,749. In 1868 the Democrats
 were 10000 ahead, and in 1872 the Re
 puhhcans took the State, with 5l, 800 votes to spare. In 1876 New York again
 went Democratic with a majority of 2b,06S, bat in 1880 the Republicans had . majority of S.660. Tilden made the difference in 1876, Garfield and Arthur
 were tine retaining influence of 1880.
 From lS52 New Jersey remained a Democratic State until the surprise party of 1872 led by Grant turned that
 State Republican by majority of H.
 5fO. In 1876 1t again went Democratic by ll,6JO majority, but m 1880 1t only had plurality fl 2,0l0 votes.
 Ohio, the commonwealth of ideas, is | only constructively doubtful, since she | has never failed to give ronad Repub- | llcan majority on national elections l since 1852. Her flirting has been over | local l>sues, and though m 1876 her | majority fell to 2,14I, as against 3I .26S | m 1872, the majority of 1880 was 27.77I. The same propOsItlcn Is true of Penn sylvanla, which has beer sturdily | Republican in Presidential years since loJ6, the smallest majority. on the dis tasteful issue of 1876, being 9,375. The majority in 1880 was l6.cGS.
 Indiana first abandoned her Demo- cratic traditions lSG0, when she gave the Republicans majority of J,923. She continued m the new fath until 1876, when the Tilien "bar'i" captured a Democratic plurality of 5.5l5. In lSS0, however, th, Republican snprem- acy was restored on plurality of | 6.6li, and that in face of the energetic enterprise of the Democrats to m-Ee that the pivot State Ot The campaign.
 California barely enters the seine iul Of doubtful States. Sine was steadily Republican from lSG0 until lS~0, w.ea, through the various issues involved. the Democrats succeeded in getting plural fly of only x votes, whereas in 1876 the Republican majority was 2,1SS. If any favorable to the Republican interests can be drawn frcm the marked depreciation of Democratic votes m several of the Southern States, as be- tween the figures of 1876 and lSS0. there k possibility that some oi theus may repea: the sensible action of 1872 and 20 in for the Republic n tictet. Florida not only went Republican in 1872, but in lS16 also, and in lSS0 had only a Demo cratic majority of 4,3l0. Georgia, which has been uBinterruPteily Democratic, bad fallen from 19.642 m 1876 to i, l99 in lSS0. The South. indeed, is ro longer a unit. sni there is just as much reason to figure some of the gen rraily admitted Democratic States as among tbe doubtful factors, on the ground uf their very marked decline in a> io crUni m those States that haye ever had strong tendency towa-d- R-gr biIcauisIn.