Show I 1 fi A As election returns from all part parts of cs the country continue to come in it appears certain that the democrats generally have lost ground indeed the demo cratic majority in the house of representatives presenta tives will be eo so much reduced that it will hardly be able to give character to that branch of congre s upon all occasions this democratic rebuke is attributed to very many causes generally local in their nature but many believe that the civil service mania of the democratic national administration has had bad a serious tendency to check the partisan zeal and enghu nissm 88 of the tile rank and file of the democracy who generally believe in the maxim that to the victor belong belongs the spoils the election of the democratic candidate fur for mayor anew york city by a comparatively small plurality is regarded ae as an indication that the empire state will ill sustain the democratic nominee at the next presidential election but it ia is obvious that this slon is farfetched it ie is conceded hat hewitt received n large number c maceil cail IV t might be elected if they voted for their own nominee who bad had bu but t a meagre chance of election from the start the strength which george bevele developed p ed was under the circumstances remarkable and it indicates a degree of dissatisfaction among the members of both the great parties in gotham the democrats have carried the southern states generally of couise course but appear to have lost california and possibly indiana it teems probable also that idaho has gone republican w which bich n cans eans the success of dubois and the defeat of hai hailey deyp because of the notorious rious te test at oath through the oper operation of which a large number of taxpaying tax paying citizens were shamefully disfranchised franchised dis this election ought to teach the democrats of idaho a lesson |