The November elections in the United States have resulted in
the complete overthrow of the Republican party. The entire South may be said to have been lost, and the moat important States of the West, and New York State and New York City, together with Pennsylvania. The Republican majority of one hundred in the House of Representatives has been cancelled, and the Democrats have a majority of fifty-six, while in the Senate the Republican majority has been reduced to ten. Even in Malwachusetts the Democrats have carried their nominee. for Governor by a majority of 5,000. As the President and Senate together possess all Executive power, this decision for the present only invests the Democrats with a veto on new legislation and requests for money, but it is not doubted that in 1876 President and Legislature will both be Democratic. We have endeavoured to describe some of the causes of this revolution elsewhere, but may add here that the dividing-line between the parties is unusually faint. The Republicans have been fourteen years in power, and the people are tired of them—that is, in a brutal form, the moat reasonable explanation.
