Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1874 — The November Electiens. [ARTICLE]

The November Electiens.

Our dispatches have already detailed the results of the elections in the. several States on Tuesday. The gains for the Democratic party must have far exceeded the most -Sanguine expectations of its leaders. Of course they had reason to hope for the election of their State ticket in New York, and, judging from their successes in Indiana’ and Ohio in October, to look for accessions to their strength in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. But that such a staid old Republican commonwealth as Massachusetts, Which had elected no Democrat as Governor or member of either house of Congress since there had been a Republican party, should now not only, elect a Demo crat as Chief Executive, but send five Opposition members to the lower house of Congiess, is one of the of politics. No man can demonstrate absolutely the reasons for this popular convulsion any more than he could for that Which occurred in October. Of course the issues of temperance and anti-temperance and the effects sos good or evil growing out of the late temperance crusades cut no insignificant figure, taking over to the enemy thousands of Germans who had formerly acted: with the Republicans. Of course dissatisfaction with specific acts of legislation, State or National, or of executive administration. State or National, might have culminated at last in local expressions of discontent. But, in our judgment, the almost universal avalanche of popular insanity in behalf of the Democracy manifested in the late elections was precipitated largely by the industrial and financial stagnation and embarrassment? of the people." Rightfully or wrongfully, the dominant party has been held responsible for this condition of affairs. In an article published by us immediately after the October elections we showed that in the grain-growing States of Nebraska and lowa, where the people had realized good crops and handsome prices, and were financially content, they were politically coptent, as was proven by the increased Republican majorities over the preceding year; while in the States more largely devoted to manufacturing, like Indiana and Ohio, where capital and labor were idle and discontented, there was political discontent and revolution. The November elections seem to confirm this theory, for in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Republican candidates have been overwhelmed remorselessly, while in'Michlgan, 5V iseonsin and Illinois Republican nominees have more nearly received their party strength. These important reverses to Republicanism, and especially the loss to the party and the country of the next House of Representatives, are calamities beyond estimate. They will serve to embolden the rebel outlaws of the South to fresh.acts of barbarity upon Union blacks and whites alike. They will encourage the craven Northern allies of treason to new efforts to nullify the guaranties of the amended Constitution, They will have the effect to strike a staggering blow at the national credit at home and abroad. But if these immeasurable evils shall ultimately result in rousing the Republican party to the dangers which menace the Government through Democratic domination in the executive as well as legislative departments; if, in brief,, the loss of the National House of Representatives in 1874 shall serve to save the election of President and both houses of Congress in 1876, through that patriotism in presence of peril which has so many times during the last fourteen years saved the Republic, the loyal masses of the North and South can afford to bear the humiliation and mortification of the present visitation of adver-sity.—lnter-Ocean.