The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-09-01
WORCESTER:
WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 1, 1880.
WESTERN ELECTIONS.

WESTERN ELECTIONS.
The result of the elections which have ius
taken place must be considered, we think, CON
elusive that the whole west, with the excen,;or
possibly, of Tennessee, will go in opposition tc
the present administration, and bv overwhelm
ing maJortlcs. We were aware that change
in public sentiment had taken place, and was
rapidly progressing but had no adequate idea
OF its extent. When it is considered how short
time our present rulers have been in power,
and that one year ago, only, they mad heavy
maJorities in nearly all the western States. the
change is truly astonishing, and may justly be
considered one of the most remarkable revolu.
tons in public opinion, which has ever occur
red in this country. lift continues at the same
rate for one year more there will be but little
Jncksonism left west of the Alleghanies From
KENTUCKY, the favorable reports of last week
are confirmed. In the Senate there are Is
jackson and 10 Anti-Jackson. members elected.
Three districts remain 10 be heard from, which
1t is supposed will give two more Anti jackson
Senators In the lower house the Anti-Jack
son majority will bo eighteen or t,centy. In
reference to this election the Kentucky Report.
er, paper which we have always found enti-
dedtO entire confidence, says,
Under all the circumstances our triumph is
'complete-it is overwhelming to the Jackson
party In TINS State. All hopes of electing a
jackson Senator are blasted; and the changes
IN some of the Congressional Districts, now
represented by Jackson men, have given a
death blow to their future prospects In the
language ofthe famous Inaugural Address we
may say" The recent demonstration of public
sentiment lnScribes--in characters too legtbie
to be overlooked, the task Of REFORM" And
reform both of The Senate and House of Rep
resentatlves, SO far as Kentucky is concerned,
will most assuredly take place.
The Jackson presses, which had prematurely
sounded the note of triumph, on the first re.
ceipt of few partial returns, find it hard now
to yield to their convictions of the unpalata-
BILE truth. They cling to their frst impres-
sions, with tenacity, comparable only to that
with which dying man holds upon any thing
that he thinks may, by possibility, save his life
No hope is too feeble for them to grasp at
no straw too slender to seize upon. Finding
that decided majority of Clay men was cho-
son, few of them have frankly confessed their
defeat, while others seem disposed to keep up
the delusion little longer, in order to mitigate
the effect which so sudden q rcvulson might
produce For this purpose, although they ad-
NIT that ffly-seven Clay men are chosen, and
but forty three Jacksonites, they say that elev-
en- OF the Clay men are pledged to vote with
them, on party questions! They, however,
fhotr h.
suit of trial of strength, when the legislature
assemblies, by expressing their fears that these
men may be induced TO violate their pledges
In relation to this rigmarole story of pledge,
the Reporter very properly remarks, that il is
so absurd as TO be unworthy of serious notice
The Editor of that paper says, that he knows,
personally, several of the men so claimed, that
they are all true men to the Anti. jackson
cause, " and may be relied on 10Th as much GER.
tainty as any other"
From Missouri we have the best accounts.
The whole eastern portion of the state, ON the
Mississippi, has gone en- masse, against the
Administration, and in favor of tho reelection
OF Barton TO the Senate. 1t is not supposed,
that the western part of the state has done
equally well, but the st. Louis Republican says
thera is no doubt thot two thirds Of tho Logis
laturo will be opposed to the administration.
The Western Anti Jackson papers speak with
updiminshed confidence of decided majority
in the Legislature of Indiana.
Ia Illinois the returns do not yet Justify us
in speaking with intire confidence of the result
Judge Reynolds, an original Clay man, but
who between Jackson and Adams voted for the
former, was supported by tho anti Jackson men
and is said to be elected by majority of 5000
votes over Kinney the jackson caucus candi
date Judge R. is opposed 10 the reelection o
Judge Kane, the Jackson Senator from Illinois
and the Clay papers speak with great conf
denco Of strong majority in the Legislature
in their favor and in opposition to Judge Kane
A short time will shew on what foundation
their opinions are based.
An attempt has boon mado in some Of tn,
Jackson papers to deceive the public in relation
to the election in LOUISIANA. II is ontircl
futile. Louisiana is as decidedly Anti. jackson
as Massachusetts, is, and the more fair an
honorable portion Of the jackson papers ADM
it.