The Times correspondent in New York reports that the Bryanitea
begin to despair, and are threatening to resort to violence when the balloting begins. Governor Roosevelt was pelted with eggs at Elmira on Monday, and even Mr. Chauncey Depew, most popular of orators, has been mobbed. Mr. Croker, the " boss " of Tammany, openly recommends Democrats to throw the returning officers into the street, affirming that they intend to falsify the returns. Of course, the warning thus publicly given will call the Republicans to arms, bat we fancy it is, except in New York City, a mere counsel of despair. No party in America, and especially no minority, can carry an election by violence. The masses of voters are too great, and the area covered is too wide. It would be easier to terrorise or bribe the Electoral College, but we doubt if that has ever been attempted, though Mr. Tilden, we believe, in the exasperation of his defeat, was of a different opinion. A serious attempt to prevent the ballot from acting would, of course, mean civil war, and a perception of that fact restrains even the worst of American party leaders.
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