Show SOME OF tbo New York democrats seem determined to commit the party to the Borioni error of conteting Garfielde election in that state County committees In eome instance in-stance have filed protests t against the vote being counted as they were cast ftljging frAud on the pMt of the I republicans Ns one will pretend to deny that itiuJ wee practiced in tbe Into election but r no would be foolish enough to assert toat the crookedness was confined to ono side If the democrats did not take every advantage advant-age that was presented then they forgot one of their principle and if they negected to detect and check fraud on the part of tbo opposition they were sleepy indeed and deserve tho defeat which overtook there The present attempt to have New Yore counted for Hancock or thrown out altogether can result in nothing but greater disaster to the democratic party To keep up the agitation will intensify the excitement throughout the nation and create a feeling of uneasiness that cannot be otherm9 than injurious Wo might endure the unsettled condition of affairs for the two or three months if anything were to be gained from it but this cannot be There are too many honest able and conscientious democrat in Congress and out of it to ever permit the scheme to succeed Tbere are too many men who do not believe the republican robbery of 76 would justify a democratic theft in 1850 The plain truth is the democrats demo-crats were beaten on the 2d They were outvoted in New YOlk BI elsewhere else-where The people said that they did not desire a change in the government The republicans gained votes in every northern state and in mctt of the southern It BO happened that tho gains wsro larger in New York than in other Hates It is true California and Nivada bare gone contiary to their usual course but national politics had little or nothing to do with bringing about the result in either of them Navtda was democratic because Fair said it mutt be so and California was carried on local issues If tho democrats will bo manly enough to accept the rsult and abide by it without squealing they will At Isajt I command respect but if they do not they must accept censure as well aa defeat It is a good sign that all of the prominent thoughtful thought-ful men of the perty who have expressed ex-pressed their views ag to the propriety of the contesting movement in New York have set their faces squarely against the proceeding It is i hoped the intelligent element in tbe party will be powerful enough to suppress the scheme which would be worthy of defeated republicans but is unworthy unwor-thy of democrats who profess a belief in and reverence for the peoples will as expressed through the ballot box and whose chief doctrine is that ma ioritiee should rule It is also to the credit and honor of Gen Hancock that he refuses to be a party to the disreputable proceeding or to have I anything to do with it In this asia as-ia everything else through the campaign cam-paign and during his whole life tbe general has been noble and honorable honor-able and he comes out of the fight as he entered pure and untouched by slime If thost who managed the campaign could say as much there might not now have been occasion for democrats to mourn the less of New York |