Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-08-09
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Wig Prospects.
Ii there be any Wing who desponds at the rever-
SEES which have bciaen our party, within the last
eighteen months, let him rccnrto PROSTATE con-
diton i'm 1919, and from that take confidence
| for the future. Then were everywhere over
| run. State after State which. in 1898, had unucd
the Wing flag. ngloriously deserted the standard;
and some. which had never ALTERED in the Wing
faith, proved recreant IN that year of Wing disas-
ters. With Congress carried against us;-,hc
whole Democracy thoroughly united on their can
ddaic, who was in office, and welded the whole
I patronage of the Government to sustain himself,
the Locotoco party seemed fully established in
power, beyond the reach of attack. The prospect
for the Wings was then truly gloomy, and the
stoutest hearts might have been excused for in
dulging misgivings The weak and faint Were in
absolute despair, and did not venture To hope that
a brighter day would ever dawn upon the land
But lSl0 came, and the bitter defeats OF 1899
were succeeded by a series of the most brilliant
political triumphs ever achieved in any country.
Our condition now cannot, even by the most
iimid or Respondent be- regarded rs half 81 hope.
less, it was in lS39. Now, we are united,
both rs to men and principles: Our advCrsaries
are rent with intestine feuds. They are distract
They have the patronage of the Federal Govern
ment. it is true but it is welded with much
folly and such gross contempt of public dccency,
that it can avail hut little; and when it is cons-
dcred thai our opponents have 10 shoulder Tyler
ior the OF it, it is positive drawback upon
them.
But there is fact in the very constitution of the
two parties which fully 10 explain the
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The Wings, taken in the aggregate, are those
people, who do not make politics a trade. They
have other and regular pursuits, on which they re-
" for the support of Themselves and their families.
They. therefore, do not abandon their usual voca-
tons at every election 1t is only great and STIR
ring occasions that they all quit their private du-
ties, 10 attend To the affairs of the Governments
II is firm belief, that for the last ten ycarS-;hc
Wing Party has embraced large majority of the
American people and hut for this trait, they
would have demonstrated the truth ofthe assertion
long since. The Locos, ON the other hand, Il
large majority of them, are politicians by trade
They look to politics for living. Many of them
loaters and spongers-with nothing 10 lose and
every thing To gain--arc never so protitably en-
pioyed as when actively engaged in politics
carving out a snug birth for themselves in the pub
lie crib. They are, therefore, always ut work po-
acknowledgements they make their meat and bread
by it. On this account 1t was that they were Just
~ dcnomnatcd the 'Spoils Par,y''-and We're
truly said, by ofther most distinguished lead
ers, 'o be held together by The cohesire po,sor of
he public plumber"
The election of 10 was one of those great &C.
casions, which drew forth the Wing people from
tb,i dol Ia lal,,
That of s44 will prove another when the WORTH in
elligence and property ofthis great nation will
more Ice rallied To rescue the morals the prospcri-
" and the liberties ofthc country from destruction.
From the highlands and the !owlands-from noun
ains and plains will rise the mighty shout-beiorc
which the mercenary emagogue-mousing over
his petty schemes of selfshness and ambtion-will
shrink into nothing.
The L. :. Gazette compares the present condi- |
ton OF the Wing party with its condition in 1899.
FAcrs NoTE.-Wih reference to the election
OF lc4 the Wings occupy the relation IN regard to
time, which they did IA 1888 with reference the Prcsi.
dental election IN 1910 Aud with the exception OF the
distracted state Vi the Locooco party reference their
Presidential candidate the circumstance almost every
thing else, nearly the same
In ISIS the State OF Penusy elected Gov Porerb
a majority of jI96.
And yctin so Pennsylvania cast her electoral vote n
gainsi the Locooco candidate for the Presidency.
Ia le3s Delaware elected Mr. Robinson Locofocol her
delegate 10 Congress by a majority Of 80
And yet 1910 Delaware elected nt.LocoJco electors
by majority Of more than thousand
Georgia IN 1888 elected Mcdonald Locooco for Govr
by majority OF 315
But 1910 Georgia gave good round majority for the
ant. LocofOco candidate tor President
Ohio IN the year 1885 gave Shannon ocoioco for Gov
ernOr a majority Of 1923.
Yet in e4O Ohio gave the anti Locooco electoral ticket
a neat lu.e majority Of $4,000.
Mlniand ia 1885 gave Grayson, the Locgoco candi.
date Tor Governor, majority Of $50.
Nctin 1910 this same Maryland gave a majority for the
anii-BucoocO electoral tcketo 1916.
In 1889 the State Of Massachusetts, elected Marcus Nor
ton ihe Loc1ipco candidate for Governor by majority
osI.
Yen $40 good old Massachusetts gave to the an.L,.
coiOco electoral ticket majority Of 2O,93D.
la s3s New Jersey returned Congress ocofoco del.
eghuon, claiming majority Of &C. This claim was not al
lowed, but the Wing REAL majoriy less than that.
And IN IL 10 Now Jersey ,he Wing electoral ueker
majority Of 2,3l1.
Maine in the year 1888 gave to Fairfield the Locooco
candidate for Governor majority Of 1922.
But ~ $50 Maine majority tor the Wing electoral
Michigan in -3s elected Stevens r. Mason. the Loco
loco candidate Tor Go'trn1T, aud tie Of the L1coOco
Stat, ticket
Yet Michigan in 1910 gave for the wha electoral ticket
d majority d ,sy2.
There was e.cconin Tennessee inl-37. But in 1887
the lpcVs carried their ticket by Il 500; and in 1889 they
carried Polk -I.1coocoI liy in4i,rty Of 1000
Vein l-iD the Wings elected their electoral ticket by
mnI prty Of IL, lO2
wings ~ 1898, and a-o at the Presidential election in lSO
such as ~ Carolina, lndiana Kentucky Louisiana Rhode
Island, Connecticut and ~ York, though every ofese
States gave majority for the Wing electoral ticket in 1910
yn-ty superior to they gave for the State occrsn
1885, and that Of najoy goes a. strengthen the
confidence Of the Wings, that IN 1874 the same result will
be- found!
TAe Bcdtord ond Aibcmaric Contesi.
This, which at one time sccmed to supply Mr.
Giimcr friends with am inc baiistiblc stock ofncr