Year: 1875

election is over. Senator Conkling will
sound the keynote of the campaign in the
speech which he is to deliver at Albany on
Monday evening, and during the two inter
vening weeks before the 2d Of November
there will be an energetic prosecution Of the
canvass on both sides. The democratic de-
feat in Ohio will have considerable influence
on the New York election because it revives
the dropping hopes of the republican party.
1t may not be possible for the republicans to
carry the State against the excellent ticket
put in the field against them, but they expect
to reduce the democratic majority and demon
strate that here, as in Ohio, the tidal wave
has been arrested and turned back Having
regained Ohio the republicans will probably
recover Pennsylvania Also and if they should
cut down the democratic majority IN New
York they will enter the Presidential canvass
with the prestige of possessing two OF the
three largest States and an increase OF
strength in the third. Should they achieve
this degree of success they will not despair
Of electing the next President.


The influence of the'Ohio election in New
York will not be so great as in Pennsylvania,


but it will be considerable. 1t encourages
the New York republicans to make a vigor-
Gus canvass. Money will be freely given for
their election expenses; their ablest speakers
will be brought into the canvass every inch
of ground will be contested. Since the Ohio
election they will think themselves disen-
numbered of the third term. So many re-
publican State conventions have passed
anti-third-term resolutions during the pre-
sent year that General Grants only remain
ing chance consisted in such a spread of the
initiation folly as would frighten the
country into nominating him as the lesser of
two evils. The Ohio election demonstrates
that imitation cannot win. 1t has been de-
feated in its very citadel, and there is no
other State in which it has anything like the
strength, vitality. courage or leadership
which were displayed in the hard fought
Ohio campaign. The infationists, hav-
ing failed in Ohio, cannot succeed
anywhere, for there is no other
State in which they could make
this issue with SO many advantages as in
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ablest advocates. There is no longer any
danger that this infatuation will spread. 1t
will hardly dare show it's head in Pennsyl-
vania, the State in which, next to Ohio, it
was strongest, having been adopted in the
democratic platform by majority of two to
one. Even in Ohio it was morally defeated
in advance Of its political rejection. In the
latter stages of the canvass its organs and
speakers changed front and declared that
they were not infationists, but only anti
contractionists. The Pennsylvania demo-
Gratis will fall back to the same position, and
henceforward there will be no avowed infa-
tionists in any State. Whatever may be the
individual opinions of certain classes of citi-
zens, initiation as political issue is quite
dead. In Pennsylvania, which stood next
to Ohio in the imitation ranks, the chief
concern of the democrats will be to explain
away their platform, and every democratic
speaker who goes on the stumpSwill disclaim
being an infationist, as was done in Ohio
during the last week of the canvass. This
moral defeat Of imitation is even more impor-
tant and significant than its political discom-
fiture.


We proceed to indicate the bearing of this
result on the New York canvass. BY destroy
ing President Grants only remaining chance
of third nomination it tends to heal the
division which has for some time existed in
the republican party of New York The
Grant faction and the anti-Grant faction will
easily be merged when the latter Sees as it
now must, that President Grants last chance
for another nomination has vanished with
the extinction Of the imitation issue. Mr..
Morgan and Mr. Conkling will act in con-
cert, for President Grant has no longer any
other interest than to leave the party that
elected him strong and respectable Senator
Conkling and the Custom House people kept
away from the Saratoga Convention lest their
presence should injure the party, and the
Convention passed resolution against o
third term in the same view. But since the
Ohio election the third term is question of
the past and there is no longer any obstacle
to consolidation of the republican party of
the State. The Morgan faction and the Gus
tom House faction will now act in concert
Mr. Morgan's pecuniary liberality and Sena-
tor Conklings eloquence will work in unison
and contribute TO the same end. Instead of
merely trying to save the Senate the republi-
cans will make vigorous campaign for their
State ticket


They will take additional courage from the
political condition of this city under the
Tammany dictatorship of Mr.. John Kelly.
They will proclaim from Montauk Point to
Niagara Falls that Tammany has returned to
its old courses that it has flung out the most
upright and efficient criminal judge in our
city in order 10 make the administration Of
criminal justice a football Of politics that
there is no real difference between Tammany
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