The Daily Phoenix

The Democratic victory in California is a protest against the nigger supremacy policy of the radicals; the protest of, a practical, energetic and never over-conservative community against the wild theories and extravagant purposes that, by keeping the country at the fever heat of disturbance, are paralyzing trade. We may acknowledge, in the broadest terms, that there were causes within the Republican organization in the Pacific States, that weakened it. Republican voters in California, as in Connecticut, some time ago, were disgusted with the conduct of their leaders, and remained away from the polls. Thus the vote was reduced, and this reduced vote was divided on different candidates. But these causes only gave a greater field to the rising wave, for the Democrats would probably have secured a substantial victory without them. There is, however, just enough in this view of the result--in this argument of the reduction and division of the Republican vote to serve for the use of radical leaders in the Atlantic and Mississippi Valley States. It will serve them to explain away the event--to prevent their voters from rightly understanding a lesson that would imperil the power of the radical party. But the lesson is all the same for the country at large, for that large part of the people that is not to be deluded by the declamation of political spouters. It is the distinct declaration of the apprehension of the people of the Pacific slope that the tendencies of the dominant party are dangerous; and their purpose so that it shall no longer be trusted with the destinies of the country.

California has a population of vigorous, bold, thinking people. Her citizens bear the same relation to the Atlantic States that the people of these States at one time bore to Europe, and are made up of the adventurous, clear-sighted, intelligent men of all our Atlantic communities who sought in the new State an ampler field for an enterprising spirit than they could find at home. Such a population is seldom conservative, and when it utters its political protest against party extravagance, we may be sure that the whole nation is alive to the danger.

[New York Herald.]