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Show THE ELECTIONS. Tho returns from Tuesday's elec tiona are not all in, but enough is known to indicate very plainly what has beeo done. The victory is fairly on the Bide of the republican party; or rather the defeat is of the doubtful iima and questionable principles that the democrats have incorporated in their platforms for the purpose of catching fctragglers and pleasing the unreasonably discontented. It has not been a defeat of pure democracy, for pure democracy did not figure alone in the contest. Strange godB were set up for the people to worship, before which the voters have refused to bow the knee. Had tho battle been between , honest, unadulterated unadul-terated democraoy . and straight-cut straight-cut republicaniem, as it was four ye.ua ngo, the result would have been entirely diflercnt from what it is. The people are not iu error. They cannot stomach mixed didb.es in politics any more than they can swallow with serene confidence boarding-hoube hash, lhe democratic platlorm-makers iu their efforts to pleaso all tastes, spread bs'orQ tho public an unsavory dish compounded of political ingredients that would not mix. Instead of going before the country with their compact and comprehensive platform of principles prin-ciples the rickety structuro presented by them had planks to catch bondholders bond-holders and others fur the Kearneys; bids wt-ie made for the hoodluniB and the respectable citizens; the structure wns gnudily garnished with geld, greenbacks and silver, and decorated with "honest money," inflition and repudiation; the whole presenting a Btraiigely fantastic appearance, Licking Lick-ing iu symmetry and consistency, and exhibiting want of cohesion and tho element lh.it makes political platforms substantial. In pUuica, as in beverages, the American people are not given to mixing things. On tho other hand, tbe republicans repub-licans have ktp' t.iemstlves more nearly within the bounds of strict pi: if principles than ever before. An inflation hubbub in one stjtt? h:i? cot caused tiie party to throw out a bait for it; nor Y$ the spasmodic growth of the hoodlum and discontented eltmeut uf society brought Mia a bid for that vote. Tbej party had been consistent with itself, and clur j to its old principle. Tbe result shows that the people prefer even radical, oppressive and libe:ty-destroying libe:ty-destroying republicanism to a democracy dem-ocracy that ij neither one thing nor another, but an unpalatable, indigestible indigesti-ble political hotch-potch. But while tho iljction has been a viclo;y lor t:io republican, it has not been tiuch a defeat ot the democrats ai can do any harm, providing the latter will profit by the les-aon les-aon tiught them. We figure i the democratic lotaes of congressmen in the aggregate at leea than a dozen, allowing in thia for a loss of four or ;tive in New York. With the gains made in the September and October elections, the party will still have a majority in the bouse uf representatives representa-tives of twenty-live or thirty la-fcc enough for all purposes. U hat id of equal importance is the fact ilat they will have in the Forty -'Sixth congress a clear majority of atate.. Twenty of tVin tliirtu-piulll it UN'S hiiVtt ctliWLl democratic representatives, ana Nevada Ne-vada is yet in doubt. Sixteen states only are republican The reioiiutu atate, California, dues not elm congressmen until .September, '79, but as the democrats already huvo a majority of all tho stateB, California 1 can cut no figure, whichever way Bhe goes. Thus, it will be Seen, that iu the event of tbe nexi presidential election being thrown into tho house, a domocrat will be chosen. Tbe democrats have forty-one of the seventy-six Benatorp, after losing one in Connecticut on Tuesday. It ia not improbable that this less will be made up in Nevada, but in any event the republicans can only have thirty-four members in the upper bench of congress. con-gress. Thus, everything ia in -tho hands of the democrats, despite their errors and general fooliBhnese; but the black eye sustained by them in Tuea day's fight Bhould be a warning that if they would retain their power, thoy must brace themselves to a more upright up-right position, and atop trading and trafficking. |