Grant County Herald

The Johnson Party Sick

The New York Herald, a Johnson organ concludes the Maine election news means something. It says

"The general results of the Maine election are very decisive and very significant. They are startling and incomprehensible to the conservatives and indicate a popular ground swell wholly unexpected by the radicals themselves. Had the republicans simply held something like their standing result in Maine the result could have been explained by the simple statement that a battle was fought between the Union party and the old "copperhead peace democracy. But the enormous gains to the republican vote throughout the State require a larger explanation.

"Whatever may have been the real causes, however, operating to bring about the extraordinary results of the Maine election, it is too decisive against the democracy and conservatives to be limited to Maine. We apprehend that, as in all our political contests of the past of a national character the result in Maine indicates the general drift of the elections coming after it throughout the Northern States. The prospect now of a conservative majority in the next Congress is doubtful. The prospect of another radical Congress is better than it has appeared at any time since December last."

In short, this Maine election of 1866 will probably mark another new chapter in our political history and perhaps another reorganization of parties and another reconstruction of party platforms for the Presidential election beginning with the close of the coming elections of October and November.