Insignificance Of Fall Elections As To The Contest Of 1880

Undne iinportauce is given to tb States holding their eleotions tbis fa! as to the bearing tho result may hav ïipou tho natioual election next yeai Sup[iose as Maine and California hav gonr Eepublican, Ohioshould also elec the Repablrcam ticket. "VVill it follo therefore that tbeltepublicans will hav a uiajority ou tho popular vote, or tha thi Fresidential eontest will be mater ially ttffectod by snch a result? W grnnt suocesSj attained even by a sma anjority is enoouraging and inspire bupt) tor the future. Leaders extrae comfort in very uieagre inajorities. Siiice tho organizatiou of the Eepub licun party, Maino has been reckonet upon as reliably for one side as Ken tucky has been for the other. Shu ha polled up inajorities yoar after yea f rom 10,000 to 40,000. Por the flrs time since 185G, sho went ovpr to tb oppositiou last year through QOttlition Tuis yer, after one of the hardest con tpsted campaigns, nationul ulections do exct'pfed, a profuse expeuditure of uion e-y, and voters purchased like sheep in the shambles, the Republicansare barely able to recover possessiou of the State. I3ut what has becoine of thu old fashioned tnajorities we have been accus tomed to read about in the past? The Kepublicans so long in the inajority by tens of thousands, are now iu tho minority of the popular vote. Does it not provo a gradual disiutegration of tho Republican party in one of their strongholds? Tet, Slr. Bluine possesses the effrontery to claim a victory, when his party having carried the state by largo inajorities, without effort, is uow, after n unexamplcd canvass, and a resort to pvery forin of trickery known to unscrupulous politicians, able to save it by the skin of his teeth. Suppose Obio goes Republican ? She has invariably given her electoral vote to the Repubhcau uominee for the Presidency, and voted thu same ticket in odd years until Grant's aduiinistration revolutionized her politics as it did nearly every other northern state. She is a close state, and whichever way she goe3 there will bo no special significance as to the election in 1880. With ono of her citizens a candidato for the Presidency, she gave him only 7,570 innj. California eleets a Republican Governor, an easy victory considering the opposition was divided into three factions. She, too, has electod nothing else, with very rare exceptions. Tuis state's politics, always badly mixed are controlled by the Central Pacific corporation, which is shrewdenough through the powerful aid of an immense corruption fuud to split the majority of her people opposed to her domination into factious ininorities. It will be seen that Maine has been barely saved ; California continúes to be Eepublican ; and if Ohio possibly elects Foster she inerely continúes to do precisely what she has generally done in the past. Heneo, we argue the fall elections foreshadow very little so far as the Presidential election is concerned, linloío U K„ „ :ul_ i „f „ liuretofore reliable New England state to tho Eepublican phalanx. We eleoted our President in 1876 without tbeir aid, and we eau win in 1S80 without them. No one puts either in the Democratie pyramid column likely to be erectedin 1880.