Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1876 — POLITICAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL NOTES.

MT The Republicans of Virginia insist that the State can be carried for Hayes and Wheeler, and they propose to make the effort. iy The Democrats lose twenty-eight members of the Legislature In Vermont. And yet the Democratic organs figure out a Democratic gain. 0T The Republican majority in Main* was 12,858 in 1873; 11,397 in 1874; and 4,775 in 1875. Add the returns for 1878, and where are those crumbs of comfort for the Democrats ? HT The Republican majority on the Congressional ticket in Vermont is 27,000, a gain on the vote of 1874 cf 16,753. This point has escaped Democratic mathematicians. — Inter-Ocean. tW This Is the way in which the Philadelphia Times announces the result of the election in Wilmington, Del.: “ Wilmington, the little metropolis of little Delaware, amused herself yesterday wilh a political landslide from Democracy to Republicanism, and changed the popular vote enough to whirl the county should it have the gift of continuance in November.” |W Now, honestly, does it look as if the Republican party was weakening, as the bogus “reformers” under Tilden would have people believe? Vermont voted two weeks ago, and tbe result was an increase of the Republican majorities of the last previous election of from 8,000 to 10,000. Yesterday Maine voted and gave about the same rate of Republican increase. Weakening, is it?— Chicago Journal.

fg* A correspondent of tee New York Times recalls this reminiscence of tee war: “In 1864, just after the battles of the Wilderness, a party of gentlemen were assembled in a room at Willard’s, and in the course of an animated conversation one of them used the following language: ‘Gentlemen, tee mistake we made was that we did not turn McClellan with his fine army on Washington and clean out the whole thing’—meaning the Administration of Mr. Lincoln. He who gave utterance to this patriotic remark was Samuel J. Tilden.” 65F*A Chicago telegram of tee 12th says: The New York Sun having stated that the Hon. Carl Schurz, in writing to a friend in Washington, had said teat in Ohio tee German vote was arrayed against tee Republicans, and that he had doubts whether Hayes would carry the State, a friend of the ex-Senator telegraphed him to-day about the Sun story, asking for tee facts and the privilege of making the reply public. The following is Mr. Schurz’ answer: Michigan City, Inch, Sept. 11 I wrote no such letter; and entertain no such opinion. Ohio seems to me sure for Hayes. Use this as you please. C. Schurz. The Maine elections were held yesterday. The results are of a most gratifying character. In every district, in every hamlet, there were Republican gains, and in some instances the majorities were greater than in 1872. The Republicans made a clean sweep yesterday. The entire State ticket was elected, and from every Congressional, Senatorial and Legislative District tee Republican candidates were returned. That Maine went Republican does not - possess so much significance —she could not do otherwise —as tee fact teat great gains were made over the majorities of last year- It gives tee lie to the hope with which tee Democracy have been buoying up each other, that a large percentage of the live elements of the Republican party had become dissatisfied and yearned for a change.—Chicago Tribune.