Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1879 — THE ELECTIONS. [ARTICLE]

THE ELECTIONS.

EWfiona were held last Tuesday io flie State* of New York,. Pennsylvania, Massachusetts. New Jersey, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Maryland and Mississippi. As was predicted in these columns a few weeks ago, every Northern state was carried by the repub licam by largely increased majorities. In New York, where the greatest interest centered, Ihe lesult is exceedingly gratifying to the republicans. • Cornell, their candidate for governor, is elected by a plurality of over 43,000 votes, and their entire state ticket was triumphant (with perhaps the exception of Soule, .candidite for engineer) by majorities ranging from 1,000 upwards. The republicans also have a decisive majority in each branch of the' legislature. This is indeed a glorious victory of right, over wrong—hohesty over fraud and dishonesty. In Pennsylvania the republican victory surpasses all expectations. Instead of carrying the state by only 30,000, as the most sanguine republicans had expected, they made a- clean sweep of everything by nearly 60,000 majority. The old Bay State records her verdict for jnsrice and humanity, and buries that old political renegade, Ben. Butler, under a majority of at least 17,000. New Jersey elects a legislature republican iu both branches. Connecticut fob lows suit with a republican legislature, by a largely increased majority. In Wiscousin the republicans make good the predictions of the late Senator Chandler, electing Smith governor by about 22.000 majority. Minnesota is also carried by the republicans by a handsome majority. Nebraska elects Amasa Cobb, the republican candidate for Supreme Judge, by a satisfactory majority. Maryland goes democratic as usual. In Mississippi the shot-gun policy was again . victorious..

The result of these ejections is sufficient ccuse for rejoicing among the re- ] uhlicans. «nd is a .verification of the prediction that the solid south will be ntet by a solid north. It is time the lenders of the democratic party were re alizim' this fact. Their shot gun policy will not work in a country where the right of suffrage fe guaranteed to every American citizen, regardless of race, color, or previous condition. Neither will the measures adopted by their repre- . sentatives in congress be sanctioned by a majority of the people. They have gone just a little too far and it is hoped the re suit of the elections this fall will bring them to a sense of tbe situation. One important feature in the business boom of the country is the fact that the debtor class is growing beautifully less. Good crops and fair prices will go far to relieve many who have for years been laboring under the yoke of indebtedness. Their heretofore empty pocket-books will be sufficiently inflated to enable them to lift the mortgages from their farms and stop that high rate of interest which has been sapping them of their very life blood as it were. Many who have been compelled to go in debt for the necessaries of life arq now able to liquidate and resume the cash system. In order to this era of prosperity the- peo* pie should learn to go slow, get only what is really needed,-and pay for what you get. Don’t plunge into wild speculations; don’t invest your means in something that will be of no earthly benefit to you. If you have any surplus cash invest it in something that is sure to bring a return or else lay it by in some safe place for a rainy day. By observing these suggestions you will find a healthier .financial stake of affairs prevailing, fewer bankruptcies and better and more prosperous times-generally.

Michigan City Enterprise: The United States mints have coined over forty-four millions of dollars, and have been ahle to force iuto circulation le*s than thirteen millions. The remainder is in the treasury vaults. The fiat and greenback men—what few are now left —will all be back, in their old places in the republican or democratic ranks in 1880, and the soft money issue of irredeemable paper will be a thing of the past. The yellow fever scourge in Memphis and other southern cities has run its course and retired for the season. People who left their homes to escape the ravages of the dreadful disease arc returning in large numbers, aad business js assuming its usual activity. The president has issued bis annual thanksgiving proclamation, setting apart Thursday, the 27th instant, as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer. Major General Hooker died at Garden City, Long Island, on the 31st ult. 7 aged sixty years. LI is death was sudden and unexpected! The late Senator Chandler leaves behind him a fortune estimated at $3,000,tMM). .llig annual income was $125,000.