Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1843-08-31
From the NatseHal Madagascar
TuE LATE Elections

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Ia another column If to DAYS paper
will be found Il ter from a +, speclabl,
source in laDIANA, Specializing on tbs re-
suit and indications Of The late tleetions.
The Indiana State Journal, Speaking
Of The election lately held 10 that State
says that ''ihe result is rot even VT SUI
4 iclently asceriaineJ 70 determine the
gubernatorai majority. Messrs Wright
Petit, Brown, Smith. Oven, Henley, Da-
Wis, aad Kennedy, Loeoiocs', and Messrs.
Sample and Smith, Wings, are elected to
congress. The Locoioco majority GO
THE State Legislature) on joint balio. i,
NOV determined 10 be eight"
Il What rebuke, says the same papers
ITO the sch;smatic course Of the Wings
dof Indiana is this notifying result The
! Wings who remained at home IN the coun-
ties Of Wayne, Rand lph. Vigo, Rush,
and Hendricks, would have changed the
guberna,orlal canvass and saved the Rep
reseniatives in Congress 10 the Whigsl
The rival Wing candidates for the Legis
lature in three Wing copnties--countl $
clearly ant undeniably Whig-haye Sc.
cured TO our opponents their major ~ on
joint ballot, besides defeating The too en-
ger aspirations Of the candidates them
selvesl"
The same fatal erser, on the part of the
Wings Of MARyLANp, i, will be recolect-
led, gave 10 lien opponents, at the election
IosIast year, tue majority in the Honse
Iof Delegates OF thai state. The follow
Ting further statement pf tFe Indiana paper,
Jas vel as the Wholesome Instruction
4 which il extracts from the facts disclosed
Fly her late ELECTION, ARE as precisely ap-
Ipiicas Hi ia the case Of MARYLAND as 10
Thar oI Ni3fAnA, with this advantage in
the casa oi tie FORMER that she has no
netdt u wait till the next year TO ben fit
by it, having the golden opportunity be-
fore her 10 the present:
INDIANA" says the State Journal in
continuation, "fs as certainly a Wig State
10 dag as she was an 1910. This the state
of the poll just taken establishes beyond
doubt; but she has seen fiji TO yiel her.
sell to lie Influences which must forever
defeat any party; person ] pIeiudices, IN
ces, and the pressing Of rival Wing can
didates INTO The fell. TINS, like tie
heavy lessons If 1885 aud 1896, will, we
hope and believe, prove of service. In
both those years even worse results at
tended our efforts; yet 10 1896 and 1910
the Wings carried the Site as by the
vote Of one man. We have learned thu
necessity OF organization, energy, and
AMI concord, and zee must Praciise upon
1t. or yield the field OF politics TO the
well disciplined minority Of our FOES"
From ILLINOIS, we have the same in.
formation, and the same warning against
prod gal waste Of the strength OF the
party by throwing away its votes UPON
irregular end ineffective candidates.
Remarking upon the ASPECT Of the late
eleetionin thar Site, the "Sangamo jour
nap' says:
ave take this eny opportunity 10
cali the atteit on OF our friends TO the fate,
at this election, Of those who have run
calling themselves independent Wing
candidates, Not one elect d, not one
having received one. fourth part Of the
votes necess ny to elect I'm! In tn $"
days the term independent candidates
means nothing oiher than ore who runs
! by the lvicc Of his enemies, in 'cpendent
OF and against the wishes OF hrs friends.
How long is the fate Of sach nj this and
at the last elect MS t. be lost on the ia
,ure2 How long viii men madly persist
in believing III, y can be elected at a time
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dates-exc, pit enemies, who only wish it
to mortfy them and profit themselves
We like also the spirit oflhe following
remarks, by the same paper, which are
Of universal applications:
"The apathy which has aiiec the
Wing party viii not pass away. Under
the same flag which streamcd in the breeze
in 1910 we s4l "A achieve another triumph.
Since the fatal day that Mr.. Tyler aban-
doned the friends who placed him IN row.
or, although elections have gone against
us, there has rot been a siagle instance
in which the success Of our opponents has
been the result of an increase Of their par
" vote stree 1910. In almost every IN
stance in which they have been success.
'u' tHS'N Hoo ~ 80 /" e'S"t va IN
their vote. What have the Wings then
to do but to arouse the Wing party, and
bring their full vote TO the polls at the
elections in lS44l To do this they must
be organized; they must 90 to work;
every oil Wing, every middle-aged
Wing, and every young Wig must take
hold Of this matter as they did in 1910
We fully believe that this will be done.
Hence we feel certain that the Wing par.
ty will be successful in 1871. They
cannot be defeated if they come 10 the
polls, and nothing short of revelation will
satisfy us that they viii not be found there
when the day of trial comes"
TENNESSEE
The ,NasheiHe Wing, in the following
paragraph, confirms the impression, which
had been already made upon our mind
from the incomlle, returns, that tho
strong men Of the State have been called
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