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Show THE PSLSIDENTIA.I, ELECTION, The result of the great preaidentia1 Cftnvasa of IS76 ia no surprise to thn Salt Lake Herald Thia paper had anticipated a democratic tidal wuv-even wuv-even before the nouiiuation of Mr Tilden, and in a leading editorial pu Habed ou June 20m it purpuruu. i to be taken from the Herald of Una day (Nov. 8), we said: "But it was not until after the St. Louis convention) had been held thai the republicans began to resi ze their weakness. With that convention eprsrjg into public notice for the first time a man of wonderful insigU. sagacity and daring, who at onct demonstrated lm leadership. Tliougli not even a delegate, his directinu hand and fertile brain were seen ii every movement of the great assemblage. assem-blage. He was a man born to command. com-mand. There appeared to be ni problem of political combination to intricate for him. Tho demorratii party had found its master spirit, and under the strange impulse whic! sometimes brings a demoralized mot1 into subjection by a single word from iU leader, they submitted implicit!) ta his dictation. His plan was direct and simple, and after that brief aod aUrlling platform had been read, th country felt that the nomination o. i candidates was almost a meaniDgles formula. The old democratic adagi was revived: 'Everything for principle; prin-ciple; nothing for men.' But tht selection of the candidates was equailj appropriate. Indeed so intense w.c the popular fervor of the delegaut that all display of personal favoritii-n was checked, and on an early ballo the 'great unknown' received Uh unanimous vole of (he convention ( president of the United States, ai. the mention of his name aroused th ! country to a degree before which tin simulated enthusiasm for the republican republi-can nominees appeared tamo aic lifeless. But the facts of the canvass art a'ill fresh in the minds of our reader-, and the overwhelming democrat it-victory, it-victory, the details of which we pul-lish pul-lish this morning, will surprise fe who have w'ohed the progress '. the conflict from day to djy. Ti e eotire httaj of southern aiatc-a hm been conceded to the democracy fnm the outset, and the character ol in St. Louis convention had rendert. safe all the doubtful states to tb same party." The new president will go into tin Whito house with a good elector.! majority, and with a popular m-jority m-jority which seems almoit astound ing. May his executive career prove as auspicious to the nation the generous confidence nhown in -character and Diners deserves. The democrats have certainly car ried the states of Alabama, Arka-ja-t-, Connecticut, Delaware, Florid Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, M-.rj land, Mississippi, Mi-souri, N'-w Jer 1 sey( New York, North Carolinn i Tennessee, Teraq, Virginia and WeM Virginia, with 163 votes, with a prob ability of Wisconsin, with 10 addi-! tional. South Ctrolin (7 votes) t also claimed by the democrats m web as Louisiana (8 vote). Illinois is likely to be very clo-w with a am nil majority for Hnys, and the same may be said of Micnigan. Ohio and Pennsylvania will not pilo up their expected republican majorities, while the great Ti'Jen vote in the southern states will largely overbalance the Hayes column, and show that the vast majority of the people of the United Slates are united itiBupportol Tilden, Union and Keforrn. Utah congratulates the people of the United States on the glorious result, and may al--o congratulate- herself that the fanatical, meddling, p:irty, at whose hands her citizens have suffered suf-fered so many indignities, has at last met an ovorwhelrning and final defeat. de-feat. For the republican parly there can bo no resurrection. It has outlived out-lived its usefulness and exhauited its vitality. Th country has no further uso for it, mve to throw it aside with the rubbish of the past. Thus the second century of tho republic re-public opens with brighter prospecti '. for the national peace, huppiurgM and perpetuity than have dawned upon us for many y(;ars. Under President Tilden tvo may hope to have true reform inaugurated in all departments of the government. We may now have real peaco without bayonet rule in the southern stales. |