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ton of the principally. The 6rmness dis
played by the Austrian delegations will tend to
moderate his zeal.
COUNTING OUT.

The election ended on Tuesday, but the
Democrats are now engaged in counting out
en- elected by the people wherever they can
Unhappy for them, they have to begin with
candidates of the Knights of Labor. Thoebe,
in Mr.. Carisle's district in Kentucky, and
Gleason in LAWYERS district in Illinois these
men must be counted out at any cost in order
TO save Democratic statesmen. That Small is
counted out for Elliot in South Carolina is IA
matter of course; nobody should expect
negro To get q certificate of election where his
place is needed to make a Democratic maj Ority.
To all appearance, Democratic methods have
been employed with great skill and energy in
California, where member is claimed by
plurality Of twenty-five in Colorado, where
returns are said to favor Reid, and in West
Virginia. where the election of Snyder is
claimed though no precise figures are given, as
well as in the Albany district, where Mr. Swim
burne was robbed of his seat by fraud. In all
these cases contests are probable, aud also In
the case of Glover, of Missouri, that no less
then eight Democrats will take their seats. if at
all, after contests against Labor candidates or
Republicans who maintain that they were
elected by the people. But these eight votes
are necessary to give the Democrats bare
majority.
1t happens that several of the members
undoubtedly elected as Democratic candidates
we're also Labor candidates and supported by
the Knights of Labor. Whether these men,
bers will quietly acquesce in an Organz ton
of the House intended to shut out the Labor
representatives elected in Kentucky and Illinois
is doubtful When the election of Mr.. Carlisle
as Speaker is proposed, how will Labor repre-
seatatives like to give him the power to appoint
a committee on elections TO pass upon his ow II
right 10 his seat against the Labor candidate in
his district? That would be something rather
more shameless than even the Dem )crats have
usually undertaken, and yet it is exceedingly
probable that Mr. Carlisle himself, though his
seat be contested, will b. proposed for Speaker
and supported by Il large share of the Demo
Gratis. The natural tendency of this sort Of
thing will be to offend the labor voters all
over the country, aud make them less ready
to lend themselves to Democratic schemes in
future, but it canno. be helped; majority of
some sort must be secured in the next Ii Ouse,
and Mr.. Carlisle must be pulled through, cost
what it may.
twas good thing for the Knights OF Labor
to be brought into personal contact with the
prescription of colored labOrers in Richmond,
and thus to BE- made to understand the law
defy ing, brutal and tyranncal spirit by which
the rights of free cit zens are denied to colored
voters and colored labOrers III Southern States
AS an immediate consequence, Democratic can
didates in Virginia were beaten in six districts,
and several of them by the aid Of Labor votes
1t will be good thing, next, for the nights
to be brought into personal contact with the
Democratic habit of stealing elections when
they cannot get the votes OF the people. After
seeing few of their leaders counted out, and
a few more beaten by Democratic bribery or
bIllot-box stufling, they will comprehend, a
little better than they have done hitherto, why
Republicans regard the Democratic party as
simply a great conspiracy TO defeat the will Of
the people.