Year: 1878

| press, which makes IL point OF party 10Y
atty to put forth confident predictions OF
victory for it's own side up to the last mo-
ment, make those organs quite worthless
as sources of information. Their COM
peting claims are evidence of nothing
but their own wishes, and their only
effect is to confuse the minds OF
plain people who read their mutually con-
Trajectory statements and prophecies. The
| Independent press, which scorns such abb
surd clap-trap and disdains to cloud the
judgment of its readers when it cannot en-
tighten it, contents itself in doubtful cases
with explaining the situation and enabling
the public to interpret the result when it
shall be announced on the day after the
election.


Observers must not allow their minds to
be bewildered by the attempts of undis-
eliminating party organs to fix attention on
points of no consequence. The only really
important thing in the elections which are
to come off tomorrow is the bearing of
their result on the next House of Represen-
tatives. The rest is mere drapery. No
State officers of any Importance are to be
CHOSEN eltHer III OHio or 4uulaua,
and even if Governor were to be
elected in one or both of the
States success would signify very little in
its bearing on the great contest Of 1880
But inasmuch as only minor State officers
are to be chosen in either State it makes
little difference which party carries off this
part Of the prize. Even the control of the
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matter of subordinate interest. In Ohio
Mr.. Pendleton, the new Senator elect,
takes his seat next March for full term of
six years. Mr.. Thurman's term does not
expire until 1881, and his successor will
not be elected by the Legislature which is
to be chosen tomorrow. Although seat
in the United States Senate is involved in
the Indiana election, the success or defeat
! of Mr.. Voorhees, will make no difference in
the political complexion Of the Senate,
| which is certain to be democratic in any
event. The elections which are to be
held tomorrow are of real national
| Importance only SO far as they may
affect the new House of Representatives.
1t is matter of vital consequence to both
| partleS W coHtrOI tHe next HOUSE, anu IL
though the chances favor the democrats it
is not yet certain that they will have ma
jority. Considerable losses in the elections
tomorrow would cast shadow over the
democratic prospects Of a complete control
OF both houses in the next Congress.


In the present House of Representatives
the democrats have a majority OF thirteen.
fol1 hat Cf har
members would shift the majority to the
other side, because each member taken
from the democrats not only diminishes
their strength by one, but adds one to the
republicans, making difference of two
| in the relative count. The elections al
ready held make republican triumph
more difficult than it seemed at the
outset The republicans have lost
two members in Maine, one in Ver-
mont and one in Oregon, and
have gained one in Colorado, making a net
loss of three and it seems tolerably certain
that the republicans will lose five or six
members from the Southern States, where
their party is virtually disbanded. Unless,
therefore, they should make large gains in
i
have no reasonable hope of recover
ing their lost control of the House Of
Representatives. 1t seems not improbable
that they will gain two or three members in
Ohio, but judging from the survey Of our
Indianapolis correspondent, printed to-day,
they have but a slender chance Of gaming
any Congressman in Indiana As between
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likelihood that the lower house of Congress
can be wrested from democratic control.


But the new so-called national party is
in the field in both States, inspired with
great activity, bodness and confidence
since the surprising strength exhibited by
their party in Maine. II they should elect
few Congressman that would bode no
members would naturally affiliate with
| the democrats. But it may happen
that, instead of electing members of their
own, they will merely divide the opposi-
ton to the republicans and enable the
republican candidate in many districts to
slip in between the two and secure his
election. The republican hopes OF success
rest TO some extent on this calculations bat
whether it is correct calculation cannot
be known with any certainty until We get
the election figures on Wednesday morn
ing.


The sources of uncertainty respecting the
greenback vote in Ohio and Indiana lie en-
tirely on the democratic side and not at
all on the republican side. Nobody has
any doubt as to what the republican inha-
tionists will do. The republican party
having planted itself on hard money ground
both in Ohio and Indiana, its greenback
zealots will, of course, 90 into tie
camp of the nationals, thereby weak
ening the republican party to the extent Of