Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1874 — The Elections. [ARTICLE]

The Elections.

[From Wednesday’s Dailies.] The Republicans in Illinois eleot their Treasurer, Superintendent of Public In(ti*uction, and twelve of the nineteen Congressmen. The Republicans have carried the State of Illinois by at least 20.0C0 majority. Alabama gives a Republican majority of shoot 12,600. Maw Jersey and Massachusetts have both gsaa Democratic. Maw York goes Democratic by about 25,000 asperity, and elects Tilden, Democrat, Butler,' of Massachusetts, is detected by a lane majority. Bftphs is elected. [Fromfhwadar'a Dailies.] The Democratic majority is Missouri is said to be from 40,000 to 60,(i00. The Republican majority fa Kansas is in the neighborhood of 10,060. Gaston, Deau, for Governor at Mskimehusetts, is elected by a plurality es 7,817.' All the Republican State ticket is dotted, except Talbot for Governor. Alabama Demo erotic by from 6,000 to §.006. The Courier-Journal returns show ths election of a full Democratic delegation from Kentucky. The entire delegation from Maryland is probably Democrat!*. The Georgia delegation is entirely Dome cratie beyond a doubt. Wisconsin gives a Republican majority es about 6,000. Ths Republican State ticket in Minnesota is elected sty s,ooomajority. The new constitution end women sufrags in Michigan are defoated. Tha Inter-Ocean says ’The nears gross better.- We got the worst es it at first.— Louisiana is propably Republican instead of Democratic, aa at first announced. So with Massachusetts, except the Governor. Wisconsin la heavily Republican, a large gain over a year ago, when the Opposition carried the State by 16,000 majority. Florida is added to the list, probably, while Washington Territory comes in to swell the number. Tb<s later returns may skew a different <> iwvp t tffw of affairs in soma of the other States. As it is, there is nothing to daspeir In spite of svery effort to the contrary, Chicago stands a Republican city. She elects two oat of her throe Congressman and a majority of Aldermen, which may be set down as a prsotkal gain of 12,000 ovar the vote of* pear ago. Ibis result wseaot poe-

itivelj known until a late hoar lost night, but occasioned much Bg ajnao»tg JJ>e hard knocks in'other places.” What would be deemed an overwhelming victory for the Democrats is considered, and not improperly, an overwhelming defeat for Republicans. Suppose, to illustrate, the Democratic party bad carried, during the fell campaign, the States of Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island, Kansas, Nebraska, lowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, lOlnots, Minnesota, Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, Masmchnsetts (except the Governor), Pennsylvania, and perhaps some other States, while the Republicans had only succeeded in Ohio, Indiana, New York, etc.; or, in other words, suppose the situation and the result were reversed, the defeat of the Republican party would be considered much more overwhelming end the success of the Democracy much greater than it is to-day. The defeat and the victory respectively are greater from the fed that the Democrats, who have heretofore carried substantially nothing, have aunied a good deal; while the Republicans, who have heretofore carried substantially everything, have lost very seriously. The result will, in all probability, be another Presidential struggle between the straight Democratic and Republican parties. Men can no longer fight under cover as Independendents, Liberal Republicans, or An-ti-Monopolists. It must be Democracy or Republicanism and as between these two the result need hardly be feared. — InterOcean.