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Show ritim: hhohk the fall. Never w ithin tho recollection of the present generation of voters was any political parly so arrogant and haughty as the democracy since the election last fall. It was almost impossible to convince con-vince the average democrat that nn off year contest amounted to little in indicating indi-cating the drill of public opinion, and to advise him to defer his jollilication until after the presidential light. To him tho latter contest was nothing but a formal compliance of the constitution tho real result of which had already been decided. When a democrat arrives ar-rives at this stage of reasoning, as he invariably does when he achieves a temporary advantage, the only thing to do with him Is to wait for the inevitable inev-itable logic of events to set him right. The demonstration may dispel his faith rather rudely but it does it effectually and that is after all the main effect sought. Something has happened within the last few days to bumble the pride of the democracy and to prepare it for a fall. The municipal elections, tho lirt since the congressional, resulted badly for that party, especially in New York, the pivotal state, and it is amusing to note how the New York Sun broods over it. "One year ago." ft says, "in the charter elections held throughout this state, the democrats won a succession of splendid victories, foreshadowing their triumph in November. Novem-ber. They carried the city of Rochester, Roches-ter, always republican, and which had in 1SHH gone for Hakkison' by L'OiH); they wou in Albany, Lock port, RulTalo, I'tica and Newburgh; they overturned republican majorities in tho counties of the interior; and in tho town of Kluiira, the home of the democratic governor, they secured a majority of HDO votes, carrying six of tho seven wards, (uite significant of the extent of thoir victory was the fact that, with the exception of Syracuse, Auburn and Ogdcnsburg, not one of the thirty cities of the state showed a republican majority, not one had put its administration into republican republi-can hands. Fifteen of the thirty citi es of New York choose their mayors on the first Tuesday in March, and tweuty-two of tho sixty counties hold their town elections elec-tions ou the same day. In the contests of the present week tho republican have captured Rochester, carried Dunkirk, Dun-kirk, elected for the first time n mayor in Home, won in Newburjr, Glean anil Amsterdam, and carried six of the seven wards of Elmira, tho home of Governor Hill, exactly reversing last year's result in that town. What is the cause of this change? What new arrangement of the political situation in the state does it foreshadow at next November's general election? who is to blame? Where must we seek for tho means of repairing these reverses?" re-verses?" And so on. It is the same old story with ever new vacations, l'riiic comes bpfore the fall. |