The State elections in Vermont and Maine, the meaning of
which we have discussed carefully elsewhere, promise very ill for the high-raised hopes of the Democratic party. In Vermont the Republican majority (over 30,000) is greater than any yet obtained, even at the Presidential election for Abraham Lincoln in 1864, and yet in Presidential elections a much larger vote is usually polled than in State elections. The Republican candidate for governor (Mr. Page) was elected ; the new Vermont Senate is unanimously Republican ; and the House shows 219 Republicans to 15 Democrats. Last year the Republicans had 205 and the Democrats 29, so that the Democrats have lost and the Repub- licans gained 14 votes. In Dlaine,—usually a much more doubt- ful State, and counted upon as likely to go for the Democrats by sanguine men of that party, the Republican majority, as reported by Atlantic telegraph, has increased from 11,600 last year to over 18,000 this. We may fairly trust that this is the result of the wise firmness towards the South, and the still wiser integrity on financial matters, embodied in the platform of the Chicago Convention.
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