The Republican journal., 1886-11-11
The Grand Result.

The election news received since our last is
| sue has grown better and better. The Demo-
cratic majority of Is in the present House has
! been reduced almost to the vanishing point
! The Democrats of the next House will be shorn
OF power for evil while they will have to shout
der responsibility for the lo-nothing policy
which has characterized them in the present
| Congress. The control of majority in the
House Of Representatives has not been desired
by Republicans in a party point of yew,' says
the New York Tribune, and it no doubt speaks
the sentiments of the party 1t will be time
enough to take control of both branches of Con-
:rrcs> two wears hence when we elect a Repub-
iean President. The loss of one or two Repub-
lican votes from the Senate will not change the
situation in that body, in which the Republic
cans retain a majority.
The returns show that the tariff was an i'm
pOrtant factor in the contest. and that this
question is likely to break up the solid South
| The growth of manufactures in that hithcr-
to free trade section, has built up a sentiment
III favor of protection; and what is said of the
>Outh applies with scarcely less force to the
lcader>-lIurd of Ohio and Morrison of Illinois,
We're handsomely defeated by Republican pro-
tvction>tS, and Speaker Carlisle, of Kentucky,
another free trader, narrowly escaped like
fate. Virginia was revoutionized. Her dele
cation Is changed from two Republicans and
eight Democrats in the present House to six
Republicans, three Democrats and one Labor
he ak. -b.,
in the South indicate that with free elections
and 4 fair count that section would soon cease
10 be Democratic stronghold.
There were some Republican losses in New
England, but they were due to causes not likely
to prevail again, and are not very material
now. In New Hampshire, where the election
of Republican Governor and State officers is
simply deferred until the Legislature meets,
there was array ed against the Republican party.
to quote the Concord Monitor "a motley host
of enemies; bourbon democrats, free rum adj
Nocate>, temperance prctender>, demagogues
shouting themselves hoar>c i'll affected zeal for
the interests of labor. and all the sorehcaded
republicans for whom the party has failed to
lind the offices they have desired" To this
must he added a resort to forgery on the part
of the Democrats in the last days of the cam
pai@n-a return TO the Morey letter tactics in
Which that pure statesman, now Mayor-eect Of
New ork. Mr. y. 5. lIewctt. was concerned.
What is true of New Hampshire was true of
Massachusetts. Connecticut and some of the
other states 1t is positive gain. however,
TO have the NugWump> openly committed to
the Democratic party, as it will put an end to
the double dealing and trckery which has
characterized them iii the past. while holding Il
pretended allegiance to the Republican party.
some of these great and good men-in their
own e>timaton-havc finally landed in the
lowest Sums of Democracy and have endorsed
the most corrupt men and methods known to
American politics. Their influence for good
OF evil i likely to be intinitesimal in the
future.
The vote for Mayor of New York is given as
follows: A. :. Hewitt, % ,456: Henry George,
Gl.930; Theo Roosevelt, 604It These figures
show that Hewitt W hile elected is in a minority
much ofa Democratic victory in city where the
Democratic majority, in the hands of politicians
of that stripe, has only been limited by the num-
hel required to overballncc the Republican
majority in the State outside of the city. An
analysis of The George yote is said to show that
more than two-thirds of it came from men who
have hitherto voted the Democratic ticket. The
fact is that Hewitt was elected by Republican
votes, under the mistaken idea that there was
only a choice of cvilS-lIewitt or George The
Tribune says: IF Republicans had manfully
supported their own candidate, instead of Suf-
fcring themselves to be stampcded by the willy
agents Of Tammany and the County Democracy,
Roosevelt would have had a plurality. and
George would have been third instead of see
ond in the race" And this in IL city which
usually gives Democratic majority of 1000.
Congressman Ranney was the author of the
Republican minority report in the Pan Elective
investigation, and the fight between him and
Leopold Morse was on the Nindication of the
attorney general. Mr.. Morse's election fur
nishes the yiniication. so far as a popular YER
diet can be so construed. Portland Advertiser.
The attempt to make the defeat of Mr.. Ran
ncy an Endorsement of the Pan-Electric swim
die is a @auzy piece of nonsense. 1t isn't at all
likely that Auy.-Gen. Garland will put on a
white necktie and Il e1awhammer coat in recog-
milton of the occasion. Boston Herald.
These two statements are in surprising con-
trast, and the source from which they come is
no less surprising. We should have expected
to find the first item in the Boston Herald and
the second in the Portland Advertiser. The
Herald Is a Cleveland and Morse organ and
naturally ready to avail itself of every oppor-
tunity for relieving the Administration from
the odium of the Pan-Electrc swindle, while
the Advertiser we have not regarded as an Or
gan, and as the stern critic of such men as At
torney General Garland.
Boothbay is moving in the direction of wa
ter supply. AT a meeting of citizens held last
week committee was instructed to employ an
expert to look the town over and prepare esti-
mates for reservoirs, pipes and hydrants for
tull ire protection, the same to be presented at
meeting of the town to be called to consider
the matter. The meeting was spirited and
unanimous.
Gardiner, with population of less than five
thousand, has first-class water works with hv-
drants all over the city; its main business thor
ouShfare is paved with granite blocks. and
macadamized from the steamboat wharf at the
lower end to the paper mills, and it has the
electric light and two first-class hotels. Thirty
new dwelling houses have been built this wear,
some of which are expensive.
Phillips at special town meeting voted
overwhelmingly not to buy steam fire engine
and other apparatus and voted down motion
to appropriate $500 for hose The town has a
hahu engine, but the hose was used up at the
Harrington fire. Phillips is penny wise and
pound foolish.
When Leopold Morse, who Is called Leopard
Morse in Washington, takes his seat in Con-
gress he should wear placard on his back like
those on the dummies in front of his Boston
clothing store, inscribed: This suit 100000.
Mr.. M. can fill in the figures from his check
bool,