The Republican party in the United States are carrying the
fall elections in all directions. We recently recorded their victory in California, where they crushed not only the Demo- crats, but the victorious Labour party, and now they have carried Ohio, a most important State, electing their candidate, Mr. C. Foster, for the Governorship by a majority of 20,000, or 17,000 more than last year. It may be alleged that in Ohio the Ger- mans are very powerful, and that is true, but that will not account for the large increase in the majority, which is rePeated in Iowa, where the Republican Governor, Mr. S. H. Gear, has been re-elected by a majority of 25,000, or 16,000 more than last year. This is the more remarkable, because the Democrats have virtually chosen their candidate for the Presidency, Mr. Tilden ; while the Republicans are still discuss- ing the competing claims of Mr. Sherman, General Grant, and Mr. Blaine. The fact appears to be that the Democrats, in uniting themselves with the " greenbackers," "soft-money men," and other repealers of the Eighth Commandment, have roused classes usually too indifferent to vote, and that the next election will show a crushing majority for Republican princi-* pies, hard cash, andihe due performance of contracts. That is satisfactory, so far.
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