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Show NATIpffAL POLITICS 18VG. The eventful struggles of the year have developed a crisis oF more than ordinary significance in our national politics. Perhaps the most remarkable remark-able feature ot the content has been the closeness of ita results as between the democratic and republican parties. par-ties. We have seen tho entire voting population of the Union engaged in one of the fiercest and most uncompromising uncom-promising political campaigns of tho century, and in about equal numbers under the republican and democrat;: banners relentlessly pitted againa. each other, the former with ita ha-, of public officials, its eoutrol of the " '"""national administration and all the prestige of power, while tlvj latter, inspired by the watchword of reform and reinforced from the ranks oi independent citizens deairing a change of administration, from thy disgusted radicals and the hungry uiii.ioaa, attacked with wonderful discipline the army ltd by the president presi-dent of the United Slates acd the1 bread and butter brigade. The fight was stubborn to tho last a:,d the rr-tult rr-tult must be regarded as gratifjin, especially to those who fared that tiie political demoralization of the pajt decade had led to a decreasing popular popu-lar interest in the administration of tbe government. Tbe total vote of all the stated on tho 7th of November approximates 8, 15'J.loO, of which Tiiden, the democratic candidate, received a majority over Hayes of about 211,000, the total vote showing an increase over that of IS 2 , of over one million, and Tilden'a vo'.e over Grecley'i reaching 1,431,13, while Hayes' vote exceedtd Grant's in 1872 only 400,119. The majority of the electoral colleges ia still disputed, being claimed by both partiaawith a pertinacity equal to that displayed for months previous to the election, In the uncertain light of the new year's dawn it would be prematura to attempt to point tho moral of this great, campaign, but iU proportions and intensity scfim to indicate a result of more than ordinary moment to the nation. Though a prtailntWl contest con-test baa seldom occurred wlierj th: apparent divergence of pnn'iplo bus been so slight, the national platforms of the two parties aiming to d.fTir rather upon points of administrative detail and constriict(jn of law than upon fundamental principles of Government Gov-ernment the prime leaders of the radicals, Messrs. Jllaino and Morton, early injected into the canvass nil thr bittera'jM of the old sectional war spirit. Za",h Chandler, the chief of the national republican committer, and one of the men who ucl to bull doxe I'r'.-iidrnt Lincoln with visions of the joyi of blood-letting, wm placed in tho cabinet to manage tlio campaign, and hell was let Ioobo figuratively figur-atively upon the B'Hith, wnile under the guise of civil service ser-vice reform, millions of mony ffi8 realized from tho treasury of thu United 8ute3 to perpetuate the official life of the party in power. In the meantime the democracy moved gr.m'l' on in silid c-iluriin to thf attack. It tmiHt be said that a mom gill, mt political fight wan never made in this country, Ihmh it ii fjntft'. ion able wh'ither upon a mnre ngrrriv platform of principle B'lc-csi B'lc-csi rniglit not have been gre,ur. It yM perh-ipi loo early to have attacked at-tacked the J I yes party on Un own gfoinrl, by showing il utter failure and (bounce even in llioio enlurpriwm arid dccU upon which It nioH pr fl itielf; and on tho whole wtj may ho mti'd'-'il witli popular victory achiev tl, whie'n, however the pending i.'riiKt(l'j rimy reuiilt, wiU tiot permit its to d'-tpair of the r puMic. Tho llrm ton'; and tcinpnrof tho democracy democ-racy am most gratifying, and evi n should fra'nl and vKiU-i.rc rohI( h from the victorious party its laurels, the groat crime will bo committed beforo the world in the full glare of daylight, so that the national thieves, will bear the brand of infamy throughout through-out their career. With this criminal partisan record it ia almost impossible that tho Hayes administration, Bhall it be inaugurated, can achieve even the poor respectability that its predecessor prede-cessor has won. It will be held by a majority o( the people as a thing vile, bated, accursed, to bo tolerated only as a less evil than civil war. The chances are, however, that the radical plotters will not succeed in their vulgar attempt to steal the nation; that the popular verdict will be carried out by tlio houso of representatives; repre-sentatives; that Tilden and Hcnuricka will be inaugurated, and the United States, purified and redeemed, wili soon enter upon a uqw era of reform and constitutional government, that will perhapj tido it safely over the first half its second century aB the spirit of tho war of the revolution diii over itd first sixty years. Let ui never despair of the republic. |