Year: 1876

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The RESULT Of TIC election on Tuesda!
( has been herslded all over the country a
i great Republican victory. This is no
80. The defeat Of the Democracy upol
j, their Council ticket was inevitable, takinl
into account all the surrounding and at
tendant circumstances. They came init
power year ago, and were compelled t.
carry through premature and costly un
dertakings; the legacy Of their Republican
] predecessors. This necessitated large ex


penaiture of money and consequent higf
rate of taxation. 1t was natural in olll


citizens to chafe in these very hard time'


under onerous taxation, and chatting they


determined upon the experiment which al
free communities never fail to try undel


such circumstances "a change Of rulers


There were other operative causes from
which the Democratic defeat flowed nc


doubt under the direction and manipula-
ton of the old Republican ring, than
whom no better politicians, if corruption
| and. chicanery be elements Of successful
politics, ever existed in this country, out
side of the famous Tweed ring in New
York. Droves of negroes from the sur


rounding hundreds were voted, overslawing
the suffrage of resident tax-paying citizens.
This is no fancy picture. The statement is
one capable of absolute proof.


In one ward of the city, the ninth, there
was division, disorganization; hence
weakness and OF course defeat. 1t is well,
however, that the party we alluded to was
defeated, as lie was load upon the Dem
ccracy worse than the old man of the sea
upon Sinbad's shoulders. In another
ward there was treason, open aud Aagrant,
on the part of one who has long been the
recipient of party honors, and there was
worse treason, because covert and coward
ly, in the same ward, by an official, who
has been able for the past year to eat and
get drunk upon the peoples money. None
of these, however, would have been suffi-
cient to have beaten the Democracy, were
it not for the impatience and unrest Of the
tax paying community, under what they
were taught to believe was wasteful ex-
penditure of their money by Council. 1t
has been bruited about that the question
of race and creed was an irritating element
in the contest. So far from being so, it
was as markedly absent as was the ques-
ton of national politics. 1t was a tax
payers contest, and the people put out of
power, wrongfully, we believe, set of
men they thought to be wasting their
money, and have put In their place in
stead, another set. OF whom they will be
heartily tired before September, 1877.


Tuesdays election teaches .the lesson
that even in this city in November the
Democracy must, without the loss Of one
hours time, organize, and the men Of ex-
alted position who reap the high honors
and costly profits must give to the organ
ization their labor and their presence. It
ia too bad that the Democracy of Whining
ton should in its September fight be left to
combat without leaders, unless when some
favorite is to reap the fruit Of the contest.
The fight Of Tuesday was one in which the
masses of the Democracy were utterly
without leaders.


1t was as important a contest as that of
one year ago. At that time men Of the
highest positions in the party were found
in their proper place; but as only
Councilmen were to win or loose on Tues
day they were left to themselves. There
is no necessity for the Democrats to be in
any way disheartened because Of Tuesdays
result,as the questions that will operate and
influence, the election of Sheriff, and the
members Of Legislature and Levy Court,
are entirely different from those which
inhu enced our citizens on last Tuesday.


Meetings must be held in each wards
Speakers of high character must explain
to the people the terrible peril which stares
us in the face in the event of the success Of
the Republican party. The subcommittee
Of the Executive Committee of the county
having this city in charge must at once 60
to work. Party success can only result
from we'll organized party labor. No craven
hearted faltering, but up, organize, labor