The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-11-17
From the st. Louis Union, Nov. Q.
IOWA

We stated few days ago, on the authority Of a
friend from Iowa City, that the democrats had car
ried that State The Republican questioned the
rectness Of tho information. The Hawk Eye Of
Thursday last--the leading wing paper Of Iowa
sums up the returns as follows
"The legislature is composed Of ffty-eight mem
bers-l9 in the Senate, and 80 in the House. or
course thirty is required to make a majority for
either party. Without mentioning the probabilities
In the Dubuque, Cedar, or Polk Districts the wings
now have twenty in the House. maiority--and
seven IN the Senate, requiring only three more to
make a majority on joint ballot. Should we get no
more, the nearness approached TO obtaining ma
lorily, must surprise every one. Allowing this to
be the case, which Is not probable, we do not con-
sder our prospects desperate by any means"
ltsays seven wings have been elected TO the Sen
ate, and twenty wings TO the House According to
its statement the democrats will have majority Of
Us IN the Senate, and the wings majority OF one in
the House. This is precisely the account which we
gave, several days ago. The democratic majority
on jon-ballot will be four, securing the election Of
two democrats to the United States Senate. The
| Hawk Eye thinks the wing cause not desperate,
because II is wild enough TO suppose that some Of
the democrats will not be true to their faith. Ii
lies upon an idle presumption.
With respect to the other candidates, the same
paper says:
$50 much anxiety has been manifested about the
legislature, that we obtain very few reliable
turns to show the fate Of the State ticket and mem
| bep for Congress There is some hope that Me
Knight ID elected governor There will not De a
difference between him and Briggs we think Of more
than one or two hundred, at any rate. The two
locotoeo Congressman are probably elected, as well
as the locofoeo secretary of state, treasurer, and
| audltorn
This is responding enough. The wings hope
that Meningitis elected governor, is faint indeed
Briggs has beaten him about 600 votes, far we
can gather from the returns. The whole result may
be summed up as follows;
The democrats havs carried majority on joint ballot
In hs legislature, and all Of their Slate candidates
The Iowa Capital Reporter OF last Wednesday
says:
$50 far az heard from, the State ticket, including
congressman, is some 453 votes ahead. The coun-
ties TO be heard from will increase our majority about
200. This, under the circumstances, Ia most sig-
nal triumph Of democratic principles; although our
majority would have been much larger If full vote
had been polled. In many il not in most Of the
counties, the vote is unusually light; it being, far
as heard from, only about fye-sixths as heavy as
| at the August election.
80 conflicting and contradictory have been the
reports up to the time Of going to press, that we
have delayed putting them in type, until the latest
possible moment, and until more satisfactory re-
turns could be received. Last nights mail, how
ever, sets the matter at rest by the news which il
brings Of the result in the western portion Of the
possibility Of doubt, of the election Of sufficient
number Of democrats to the legislature to secure a
democratic majority Of four on joint ballot We
have neither time room to enlarge upon this re-
sult merely stating that in the calculations here
made, we have set down on the wing side all the
four members claimed by them from Lee. We
venture our political veracity upon the assertion
that not in the whole Of the elections put together,
which have taken place since the formation Of the
Territorial government in Iowa, has the democracy
had half the amount Of mean, damning, and corrupt
influences, Of every imaginable description and
character to contend with, in the one through
which they have just succeeded in maintaining
their cherished principles triumphant, despite them
ALL
THE House, il will be seen, is wing by a lean
majority Of one, and were il not that efforts from
that quarter will doubtless be made to cripple
ures Of the majority, designed for the good Of the
country, the warning il has given to those who are
strong, to beware Of the enemy, both within and
Without might be hailed by the democracy Of Iowa
| as omen of better times.n
The Iowa Reporter says the democrats have
elected IL members Of the Senate, and 10 Of the
House; the wings, seven senators and twenty repre-
sentatives.