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The Election--the Result

The Election--the Result image
Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
November
Year
1872
Copyright
Public Domain
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We n"ci hardly ttll tho AEOUa readers that the clcction on Tuesday, in tliis Coutity, Stato, and thioughout tho ooun1 iy, resulted in a general defeat and rout of tliü Dóroocratio-Liberal forces. As the senaationul wtiter pnts It when a ship is wreoked and passengen and crew aro lost, "not a soul is lef t to teil tho haxrowing tale," or if here and there a solit uy monument ia let't lio may woU exclaim in the language of ono of tho messengers SPiit to consoló (?) Job, " 1 alone uu esoaped t teil you." Without wearying our mathematica! editor or testing the onduranoc of tho reader vo may say that the followiug States aro olaimod for GBEJELEY and Biïowx : Georgia, Kentuoky, Maryland, Jlissouii, and Tonnessoe; 58 electoral votes. Alabama and Arkausaa were in doubt on latest returns, both partios claiiuing. Toxas only eoasod voting yesterday, but üi;iy prpljably bo ooonted for Greeley. (ii'.A.M' bag.s tbo rost of tbo States, 284 electoral votes, and cantake tho 21 doubtful or undeeided ones for what wo care, it beinfj scarcijly ajiy object to bvo the piceos. Majorities ao noL yet figurod np, but art1 'lairaed all the way from 011 in Dolaware to 125,000 in Pciiiiisylvanix The r can wait v.ntjl next week for moro di'ihiitmess ov fill a hat with miscellaneous iiuivs and another with the raines of the States and "draw fpr it," gift enterprise or charity fair likc, It ia "iinrr.atioular" to us, as tho colored orator put it. Thus much lor tho general rpSlllf. Coming to this Stato " a short horst! is soon curricd." The Republicana claim from 40,000 to 60,000 for Grant and Cali it tho higlier riguio with out any higglingor hair-splitting. They elcct the 1 1 monibersof Congress - majoritii'S not yet eounted up ; the 32 State Senators; 'Jl of tho 100 Kepresentatives, witb ll chance at threo of the other six. "Glory enovigh for ono dny" they ought to say and bo ihankful, and uot cry, as they will, horso leech like, for niore. n this county it is equally a short story. A República!) Senator, threo Kepublican Representativos - tho first clean Legislativo sweep tho party has ever made, and tho entire County ticket, save Sheriff. Th5 reported majoritiea aro : Grant Electors, - - 1001 11 ïiigley, Governor, - 077 " Waldron, Congreso, - 1046 Chllds, Senator, - - G49 " Cbesver, Judge ot Probate, 71 2 " FliEMIKO, Slicrií-V, Ti " Stevens, Cleil;, - ■ 657 Schaffir, Rfeglster - - 'Ml " i'uli-cliüd, Treasarerj - W43 " Al leu, Prosccutlng Attor:(.y, 1204 " Circuit Court Commlsslonerp, Lmvrcncp claims somewhere about 1700 over Morris, bot as the two htghest are elected without regard to opponciits, one running sgalnst tiie field, a "uil o;Hiv:iss is nicessary to determine exact HMJorltlw. " Grant, Representativo, lt dist., 508 " Noyes, " 2.1 " 171 " CiJk, " 3tt " 404 Flemixo is tho Job-liko messenger, whose painful duty it is to"carry the news to Horace" - the ono grain of consolation, the seed for the next erop. Ile made a " bully run," as the boys say. This is tho plain statement of results. Kovt " why is this thusly ':" It is easy forany dogan to lock tho stablo after the horso is stolon, for a wouíd bo prophet to predict results after they aro chronicled, or to say " I told you so." Neverthe.less wo havo an opinión or two whioh wo will venture to record. Tho first blunder and a. terrible one was made whon the wire-pallew were permitted to capture the Cincinnati Convention and Over-ride the honest and genuino Keformera who had united in calling it. Tho nomination of Horace Geebleï was in total violation of tho object and designs of the men who originated that convention, and was ono not fit to be made. Based on the protenco that lio alone could carry tho Southern States and disntpt the Itepublleau party throughout tho Xorth, rather than on personal qu.iliíications or principies sought to bo advanced, it was a dolusion from the first, and at the last the rock on which tho ship Reform split and went to pieces. lilunder numbor two was mado when the Cinciunati Reformers did not witbin an hour fíteú" the nomination of GllEKLEY repudíate it, conyeno anuw and nom inatc a candidato trul'y rfffrrrnflBitinjr tariff and revenue reform principies. That done the first blunder might have boen overeóme. Blunder number threo was made by the Democratie leaders all through tho country in not tuxning their backs instautly .upon G:ii;i:i.v.y aid faoWN, going to Buhimore, and noiuinating tho best two men in tho party and calling upon the defeated Cineinnati l'ievenue Reformqrs. to enlist under their bauner. GEB could havo been driven from the fiuld with AlAV3 and Ghoksüeck, GBOEaBBCK and Hancock, or any other good combination, succoss desorved if not comiuanded and seoured, and party unity and btrength preserved for future con tests. It was nevcr ppssible to carry the Domocratic party to Gkeelky bodily, and that we foresaw tiús, w.itueís the i'ollowiiig sentonco from tho Altous of Juno 31st Speftking for the Dtuiocracy of AYashtouaw County, we wroto : "Many of thcin havo ïegistered a pledge that thuy ii-ill not voto fgr Gui:i:i.i;y eten if nomiwUd at Baltimore, and this plodgo we havo fears ! that they wili keep,, or at least that the number keeping it will excoed as fivo to one tho nnmberof Gueki.i;!' Uupublicans." The pledge was kopt and our fears woro realized. Thb uon-voting Jïomocrats in this county out number Lirgoly tho Eepublican majoiity obtained on XqesdaVy. while tho number of Republicaus voting for Gm:ri j;y was amere bagatelle. It was useless to talk to thoso anti-Greeley Democrats of tho "least of tho evils." They woro asked to voto for the arch-enemy of their party, and not even n, converted oneiuy, and do it they could not and would not. Blunder number four tras inado in nominating BLAIE, whon a sterling Domoorat should havo boen placed at the hoad of tho State ticket, ono who could have aided ia calling out tho disafFected Democrats ; and blunder number five in selectiny Congrossional candidatos iti this and several ethor districts, but these latter blunders aro. subordínate to thoso of Baitnnore and C'Iuüinnati. Ñd &llegiance being racognizad to tho iead of th tiekot, tlio Deinooratic vott-rs Itayed iway from tho polis, or when they went to tho polis cnt right and left into one of tho bost county tickets ever put ia the field. It was "cvery ono for hnnsolf anti tho devü tftke oare of tho hindmost," witta tho resalt wo have statcd : and what is truo of this oounty is truo of othor counties and other States, Wo iuay sum up in n few worde : Sccingnoother way to beat Oiiant and break up the scmi-milihuy sovornment or ring instijiloil st Washington, the leaders, feo-oaliod, aceepted G u i ' . . 1 1 was a matter of reason, not of heart or enthusiaam ; the masses could not or would not look through tho eycs of fchose they had been accustomed to foili'.v, and :ill liavo gono down together beforo tho "tidal wavo whioh was to have overwke}uied the Badioala. l!ut what of tho futuro? Of tliat not I1QW. MlCTIAEL FlEMINO, Sheriff elect, is pvobably tho only Democratie county officer clectod in the whole Lower Peninsula.

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