AMERICA GONE DEMOCRAT.

Evening Star, Issue 3702, 4 January 1875, Page 3

AMERICA GONE DEMOCRAT.

On the 3rd < ctober nearly all the Eastern States were called upon to elect senators and congressmen for the ensuing term. As you are aware, the present administration is Republican. and scarcely a solitary paper in the country calculated other than an overwhelming majonty in favor of the Government ; you may guess, therefore, the astonishment of the Government when it was clearly understood that next Congress would be thoroughly Democratic. Of course this is a heavy blow at Grant and his administration. The pe >ple at large are sick of the corruption that stains the country, from its chief magistrate to its poorest policem n The effect—that is, the immediate effect of the news in Europe—was a further decline in American securities. But as the present incumbents cannot be moved, and there can be no change in the Government for nearly two years yet, the Democratic victory can produce no immediate result?. Before the leaders have a chance of taking office, it ia highly probable that this sudden burst of virtue will have exploded, and the heroes of the campaign have their inching hands well greased. » emocrat. Repub'ioan, Independent—it matters not one straw which party is in ower they are placed there to bestow favors upon their constituents, and to protect them in their schemes of p under.