Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-30
SOme Notable Elections.

burnings that were predicted as
certain consequences ofthe struggle
between Republicans in that State.
PENNSYLVANIA Republicans, still ex-
ultant over the eighty thousand
majority they gave Blaine, have in
the reelection of Don Cameron,
attested the harmonious spirit that
now animates them. New York
elects IN William NJ. Evarts, once
Attorney.General and afterwards
Secretary of State Of the United
States, one Of her most eminent
and conservative citizens.
In the selection of Eyarts and
Cameron especially, by Pennsyl-
vania and New York, there is
significance of existing Republican
harmony. Nowhere has factional
warfare disturbed the Republican
party more than in Pennsylvania.
Between the Cameron and anti
Cameron forces the warfare has
been akin in bitterness and
obstinacy to the fercest political
battles of history. Yet when
Senator Cameron received the
nomination in caucus last week,
there was not a doubt that he
would receive the solid Republican
strength of legislature Republican
by eighty majority on joint ballot.
Mr.. Evarts' election as Senator from
New York is by far the most nota-
BILE of recent political events. His
great abilities and learning will be
strongly reinforced by the prestige
of the great state he has been
chosen to represent. lie has al
ways been recognized as a man OF
fair purpose and moderate views
in politics, and enjoys great
reputation among the really great
lawyers of the country.
The Baltimore american, Re
publican in politics, expresses its
satisfaction at Evarts election as
follows
This tEvarts' election) is fore
taste of the reorganization aud
harmonizing of the Republican
party in New York that is now in
progress. Party disorganization,
machine politics and personal
iealouSies have played too large a
part in that state, and now the
people are going to reorganlze and
revitalize the party.
Democratic journals compliment
Mr.. Evarts in a manner creditable
to their caudor, and prophetic, let
US hope, Of a just dawning period
of comfy and courtesy in politics,
to be all the more appreciated by
contrast with the period of acri-
mOny and vituperatiOn through
which we have recently passed
especially in Virginia. The Phila-
delphia record is a notably able
Democratic journal. Its Republi-
can contemporary, the Philadelphia
Press thus comments upon a recent
utterance of the record:
The Record shows a keen sense
of the political situation in New
York when it says: " Last week
the chances were that the New
York Republicans would split and
the Democrats win easily; now
the chances are that the Republi
cans will unite and the Democrats
fall out" Trde; and the election
Of Mr.. Evarts as Senator has
smOOthed the pathway of union on
the one side, and the struggle over
the new Administration prepares
the way for division on the other.
The strength of Mr.. Eyarts' cleo
ton is that it antagOnizes no fac
ton, disarms all opposition and
plants the Republican party on the
most advanced ground.
The New York Sun also notes the
significance of the resultof the New
York Senatorial election. The
Sun, during the Presidential cam
paigu was anti-Cleveland, but i'm
mediately after the election, re-
turned to its Democratic allegiance.
The Sun says:
"The election of Mr.. Evarts means
that defeat has already begun to
reinvigOrate the forces that last
November, in the teeth Of tTeachery
and mutiny, fought what was al
most a drawn battle.' 1t discerns
the purpose of the Republicans,
"under the inspiring summons OF
their wisest and strongest, to re-
form their lines for a fresh charge;
and it gives warning to the Demo
Gratis that against such a united
foe they will need all Of their best
wisdom and vigOr.
This is sound political philosophy.
1t may not be welcome TO a party
which is intoxicated with IT'S rare
and accidental success, but it is the
faithful admOnitiOn ola wise friend.
The Republican failure in New
York came only by the narrOweSt
slip of an extraordinary chance.
A change of six hundred votes
would have spanned the little
chasm between defeat and victory.
Despite the detection of the mug.
wumps, despite the loss of twenty
thousand Prohibitionists, despite
the untOward accidents Of the last
week of the canvass, the Repub-
lean party was beaten only by the
turn Ct a hand.
Senatorial elections in other
states have been generally salts
factory to those, whether Repub-
licans or Democrats, who have the
ascendency. Among Democratic
Senators, just reelected, none give