Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1883 — OPINIONS AND COMMENTS. [ARTICLE]

OPINIONS AND COMMENTS.

The Newspapers on the Resalt. ■ -' .I'- (New York Tribune.] -v--- ----- ■-- The result makes Republican success possible In the next Presidential Contest. If New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania had all followed Ohio in going Democratic this year, few would have been hopeful enough te believe that so overwhelming a current could have been turned hack in a single year. Now, everybody can 6ee that fighting ground is left; that the Republicans can fiairly hope by good conduct and good fortune to carry every State they had in 1880; and that, as against a party so prone to blunder and with so many chances to blunder as the Democrats, their prospect for carrying enough of them is more than fair. [New York Herald.] Although the result throughout this State was practically a, revolution —for a Democratic majority reduced from 190,000 tc 20,000 or thereabouts implies an overwhelming change—yet the Republicans can hardly congratulate themselves upon all their vote as legitimate gain for their party. They must not count it without consideration of tlieir friend John Kelly. There Is no doubt that a large part of the vote cast for Republican, candidates represents the treason of Tammany hall to the Democratic candidates. * * * * New York passes into the category of doubtful States In the.Presldential election of 1884, and the managers of the Democratic party have nobody bat themselves to blame for It. LNew York-World.] The result reaches further and rises higher than arnore victory of Democrats over Republicans. It means 1884. It a change at Washington. It means that the people are tired of the ruling party. . It means the vindication of popular self-government. All attempts to divert attention from the fact that yesterday’s contest was the decisive skirmish in the Presidential battle lai led. One marked feature of the Democratic victory in New York Is the evidence it affords of the total failure of the Republican attempt to hoodwink the people on the tariff Issue. The effort to drag the tariff Into the canvass was abortive here, as In Ohio. Six months ago the Republicans were jubilant over thte thought that they had fixed the issue on tho Democracy, and that their opponents were on the wrong side of the question. Tho election ia New York shows plainly that tho drift of the tide is with the Democracy. In Ohio the Republicans declared that the liquor interests contributed to their defeat. In this State the liquor interests were in their favor, and did their best to defeat the Democratic State ticket. [New York Morning Journal.] New York still retains her place in the oolumn of Democratic States, although, of course, by a majority far below the phenomenal one which carried Mr. Cleveland into the Governor’s chair a year ago. While Republicans have made enormous gains all over the State as compared with the result a year ago, the Democrats have done as well as if not better than they expected. Twenty thousand majority is net very large, but It is enough. [St Louis Globe-Democrat.] A sudden change has come over the political prospect, of the country within the la3t twenty-four hours. Where there were doubts and ominous shakings of tho bead as to the future there Is now cheerful confidence. The freaks of the elections of last year stand forth in their true light There was no permanent strength in the ebullition which made Butler Governor of Massachusetts and gave Cleveland the astounding majority es 200,000 In New York. These were not evidences that the people were ready for the change which would place the oountry under a Democratic administration. They signified merely a dissatisfaction with the methods adopted by certain Republican managers.