Daily American telegraph., 1852-10-18
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from the National Intslligencerl
The Late Election in Ohio


to mislead these who are not well acquainted with
the influences which operated to produce it.
residence in Ohio, and" an active participation in
every political canvass there for the last twenty
years, enables me TO view the result of this cleo
uon in different light from that in which it
probably strikes many of your readers, .,
The election of last Tuesday was the first an
nual October election ever held in Ohio in which
members of the State legislature were not chosen;
and the hrst Immediately preceding Presiden-
tiai election in which a governor was not also to
be elected. Nothing else has heretofore had SO
great an influence in bringing out votes as the
annual canvass, under the old constitution, for
members of the legislature, except the semi
annual canvass for governor; both Of which in
iuences were wanting in the late election
Again, most of the county officers under the
new constitution hold their Offices for two or more
years. As the first election under the new con-
stitution was held last fall it follows that nearly
all the county officers hold over this year: con-
sequently the usual stimulus OF the contest for
county officers was also wanting in the late cleo
ton.
The only State officers elected this fall were a
Supreme Judge and member Of the Board Of
Public Works; neither Offices Of political impor-
lance, OF in regard to which the masses Of the
people can be made to take much interest. The
Democratic candidates were the present incum-
bents of these Offices, respectively They were
both elected only one year ago by overwhelming
majorities, and both went out ut the end Of one
year. because they happened each to drap the
shortest term after the first election under the new
constitution. Judge Caldwell the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Bench, was elected last fall by
about thirty thousand majority. He is popular
as a Judge, and it would be very strange if the
people should, under these circumstances, mani
fest disposition to limit his judicial career to the
brief term of one year His majority, therefore,
even if it were much larger than the largest esti
mates represent it, is no criterion by which to
judge of the relative strength of Scott and Pierce
in Ohio. The same reasoning applies with equal
force to the election of the member Of the Board of
| Public Works.
But it may be asked why the election Of men,
bers of Congress did not call out the votes? l
answer because the State is 30 districted that in
nearly every district there is such decided ma
jority one way or the other as to preclude any
possible hope Of success on the part of the mi
nority, and consequently prevent anything like
serious contest. The present districts were made
last winter by a Democratic Legislature, They
were so arranged as to give the Democrats four
teen, the Wings four. and the FreesoilerH three
members on the basis Of the Presidential vote Of
l84S. In order to reduce the Wing districts to
the smallest number, they Of course threw to-
gether in the same districts as many Wing votes
as possible. Consequently the four Wing dis
Whig candidates had nothing to do but to walk
over the track with merely nominal opposition.
Hence we see in Ross county, where Gen. j. L.
TAYLOR, Who was a candidate for reelection re-
sides, falling off from his former majorities of
from six to eight hundred votes. Gen. Taylor is
as popular in his county as he ever was, and
would have obtained as large vote as ever he
did if he had stood in any need of it.
The Democratic districts were of course made
ms strongly Democratic as practicable, consist
| emily with their number. Consequently most Of
the Democratic districts we're strong as to
leave the Wings no chance of success, and no in
ducement to attempt serious contest.
There were few districts, however, in which
the Wings did determine to make serious fight,
and the result, in these districts, has been Of the
most gratifying character. We have carried
three districts made expressly fer Democratic
districts by Democratic Legislature, and a
fourth is said to be in doubt. One Of these dis
trcts, it is true, we carried in consequence of a
division in the ranks of our opponents, but the
others we carried in an even fight on an open
field. By looking over the r9Apger returns re-
ceived, discover that in the districts where the
Wings seriously contested the ground, they made
immense gains on the vote of 1S4s, 1850, and
1851. -"
Take, for instance, the district composed of the
counties of Butler, Preble, and Montgomery
These counties gave in lS4S a majority for Cass
of 100 and in 1861 ma jsrity for Wood over
Vinton of 968. Campbell. Wing, is conceded to he
now elected in this district, and by majority re-
ported at $50; making Wing gain upon the
vote of 1s4S of ,0l0, and upon the vote Of 1851
of ,2lS
! Again, take the counties of Franklin, Piska-
way and Licking. These counties in 1851 gave
Wood majority over Vinton of |, 1873. Now the
vote is so close that il is said TO be impossible to
ascertain whether Galloway or Olds is elected
until the votes shall be officially canvassed. The
Wing gain in this district, therefore, must be
about ,133. ..,..
If our gains throughout the State had been
equal to our gains in these two districts the
salt would have been such as to put the question
of our triumphant success in November beyond
all manner of controversy. And why have we
not gained in the same ratio throughout the
State? Simply because there was no contest to
bring out the votes There is not q Congress
sional district in the State in which the Wings
might not have made even larger gains than these
had there been any causes operating to bring out
full vote.
deem il matter of little Importance whether
the Supreme Judge and member Of the Board of
Public Works are elected by nsjorities Of FIVE,
|ten, fifteen, O. twenty thousand The Wings ex-
pected them to be elected, and made little effort
TO prevent that result. The only adverse effect
that their maiorities, however large, can have,
will be to dishearten the Wings in other States,
whe do not understand the causes which contri-
buted to the result a..
The people of Ohio fully understand these
causes, and will not be deferred by these results
from coming to the polls on the second Of Novem-
ber in their full force. For my own part l see
nothing in the result of the late elections in Ohio
to shake my confidence in the ability of the friends
Of ScoTT and GRAHAM TO carry the State at the
Presidential election. A CITIZEN OF OHIO
A letter from the editor Of the Lewisburg (Va)
Chronicle. dated Sept %, says that the work on