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Show THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL I'UOIiLEM, The Effect ot the Elections on Hie Couiiiitc Contest. Washington, 6. Tbe results of yesterday's elections continue to be. the all-absorbing topic of commont in Washington political circles this evening. The republicans are jubilant jubil-ant and the democrats correspondingly correspond-ingly depressed, not only in regard tj the effect upon the ordinary political power oi ineir reepeuuYu purues iu the next congress, but on account of the prospective bearing of these results re-sults upon the next election for president. presi-dent. The republican gains are on all bands attributable to two causes: First, and chiefly, the united stand taken iu favor of hard money by the republican re-publican party, and, secondly, tbe indignation and alarm created in the north by solidification of the south through such means aa those employed em-ployed by Wade Hampton's followers in South Carolina, with their highhanded high-handed claims of the rifiht to divide the time of republican meetings, etc., with reference to tbe coming presidential presi-dential election. The republicans argue that the electoral votes of tbe states which have this fall given republican majorities on state tickets, are quite certain to be cast for the next republican presidential candidate, and on this basis they will have a clear majority, with about twenty electoral votes to ! spare. The democrats do not con-1 oede the soundness of this calculation, for they claim that the present repub lican victory in New York is due only to temporary local causes, and they are also hopeful of securing the vote of California and Nevada in 1S80, besideB those of other cIosg states like Ohio. It iB generally believed that the results of yesterday's election have practically extinguished the prospects pros-pects of the greenback party carrying any stato, or at least of its obtaining a sufficient number of electoral votes to throw the presidential presi-dential election into the hoiiBe of representatives. In view, however, ot this possible contingency very great interest ia felt concerning the still unknown un-known result of yesterday's election for congressman in Nevada and in regard also to the congressional election elec-tion in California next year. It is now absolutely known that the republicans will have a majority of votea in seventeen state delegations in the next bouse and that the democrats will control eighteen of these unit voles for president Tin; Indiana delegation wiil etind six republicans, six democrats, and one greenbacker, Delamytr, and i California and Nevada are still iu doubt. Twenty concurrent unit voles would be required to eflect an election by tbe house and.it, therefore, appears that the republicans have no chance of controlling the election by the bouBe unlesa they elect three cougreas men in California, make Eure of one from Nevada, and obtain also Dela-mytr's Dela-mytr's vote to make the tie in ibs Indiana delegation. On the o'-htr hand the democrats will have the requisito constitutional majority if they secure either California or Nevada together with tho con trol of the Indiana delegation, and California and Delamytr will therefore be unknown quantities in one contingent branch of the presidential presi-dential problem during tbe next twelve months. It is also a noticeable fact that, in the event of both California Cali-fornia and Nevada being added to the republican column, Delamytr's vote, joined to those of tbe bix Indiana democrats, would mako tbe vote of all the states stand nineteen to nineteen, nine-teen, and thus, iu the above men tioned contingency, there would ba a choice of president possible. This one man's power is confidently counted on by bulb partita, fur Delamytr, though elected by the combination of democrats and nationals, na-tionals, has previously been a staunch republican. He is a Method iai preacher by profession. Private dispatches received here to-night report that ex-8ecrtary Robeson is elected to congress from the first New Jersey district by a plurality of 6,000. His predecessor, Sinnickson, had less than 2.000 in '7(5. Lively times are expected in tbe next house, when Kobeson and Wbitthorne cross swords on the subject sub-ject of the former's administration of the navy department. |