Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1879 — THE RESULT IN NEW YORK. [ARTICLE]

THE RESULT IN NEW YORK.

[From the Cincinnati Enquirer.] The elections which attracted na tional curiosity and attention were those in Massachusetts and New York. Would the Republicans lose Massachu setts? Would tho Democratic party lose New York? The result in New York was, of course, the commanding question, for New York is the commanding State. The voice of New York, with her splendid and varied industries, her manifold manufactures, her imperial commerce, her various populations, with her bankers and laborers, her corporations and farms, and with her thirty-five electoral votes, was awaited with chief interest. It was believed that New York held the political destinies of the republic for a few years in her right hand. If the Republican party could succeed in carrying the great representative State of New York, a great Republican victory would be secured, the first substantial Republican gain of this year. But New York is still Democratic. The defeat of Mr. Robinson was inevitable in the face of a formidable Democratic, or un-Democratic, bolt against him, which commanded votes, not by the hundreds, or thousands, as was expected by many, but by tlie scores of thousands. No candidate in any State could stand against such a defection; and it is amazing that such a defection in the Democratic party in New York did not entirely sweep away the party success, when the divided Democracy confronted a united Republican party, or the Republican party almost united. The imperial State of New York is saved to the Democratic party in an hour in which a most unhappy and bitter quarrel placed that Democratic State in the greatest peril. It is a dangerous time when 50,000 or 75,000 men within a party in one State scratch the head of the tickot. It is a great party, of splendid discipline, of fine devotion, of matchless tenacity, that can pass safely through such a peril inside the party, when the greatest perils outside the party also needed to be overcome. Whatever the effect of the New York election may be upon individual candidates, if any, New York, in a trying time, appears as a Democratic State. Not even a stupendous Democratic quarrel in New York could give New York to the Republican party. Conkling rises as conqueror, not because he nominated the strongest candidate at Saratoga, but because he elected an unpopular candidate through Democratic divisions, and the Legislature is Republican. The power of Kelly, the tenacious Irishman, is evi dent, and it is not small. The effect upon Mr. Tilden must be coolly calculated. The great fact is of more importance than Mr. Tilden’s ambitions or Mr. Kelly’s spites, and it is that out of this year’s election the Republican party carried no State which was not Republican before. Ben Butler is beaten in Massachusetts, but the Republican party is in a minority, even in that State. In the other elections there are no important changes. The Republican triumph of yesterday consists in the election to the Governorship of New York a man whom this Republican administration spewed out of office not long ago. The Democratic party again appears as the party of invincible hope, of perennial vigor, which no quarrel within the party and no foe without can conquer. The imperial decisive State votes for the town-meeting Government, for the Democratic principle, the American principle, and protests against the destruction of the republic by a central power. The Democratic party once more rises up, a party of shining devotion, of unalterable convictions, that will die only with the republic.