The daily union., 1852-10-30
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The state Elections or 1852 Compared with those
OF 1910, 1914, and lS48.

The whig papers are invening all sorts OF Rmsy en-
cuses for the overwhelming defeats they have sustained
this year, when coniendng under the banner Of Cen
Scott, butIn no one do the true given, viz
beaten Tor tcdnt Of uoes They unwilling 10 admit
that the State elections which have been held this year
any criterion OF the respective strength OF the two
parties on the presidential question, and indeed in
cases maintain the very opposite. and draw from defeat
consolaory OF triumph next time To such
straits they reduced by their necessities They know
well that the history OF the past has proven beyond con-
uoveIsy that the State elections during the year Of
presidential contest in great influenced by
it, and that they faithful mirror Of public senmeni.
They know lurlher, TOO, that defeat al State election
has dscouragng effect, and tba, il is almost unver
sally the case that the defeated party more badly bfafB
at the presidential contest than II was before elsi
We do not reeolect OF single instance in opposition
to this rule The chances are hundred TO one in iavo
OF the victorious party. We will refresh The recollec-
tons OF whg friends by revvIng the "reminiscences
o the three last presidential contests. In 1S40 every
State election, without one exception. was disastrous In
the democratic party. Tppecanoe and Tyler 100"
the watcbword under which beaten and il
IN vain that attempted TO stem the torrent that
against and the strongest democratic States yielded IT,
The hfst Stale election OF importance IN the opening oil
the campaign was Connecticut and here The democrats
were bealen some four FIVE thousand votes, being
large wing gain the preceding contest Rhode Island
followed, giving an increased whg majority. Then came
Lousana in which the democrats were badly defeated
on the popular vote. Then Ihe August elections.
which Were still worse Tor the democracy The whlg
candidate for governor was elected in Indiana by some
eight thousand majority, though the democrats ian
against hlm very popular opponent Kentucky went
| ceivng some seventeen thousand majority. Saunders
democrat, beaten in North Carolina by eight or nine
thousand majority for governor.
Vermont followed in September, and rolled up q much
larger whig majority than usual amounting 10 some ten
thousand But Maine struck the most dsastrous blow
10 the democratic cause, she having been previously
strong democratic Stale, but in September, Is4O, she
elected kent lwhg) governor by small majority The
wings elected Thomas Corwin governor Of Ohio in Oc
tober OF that year by 10000 majority aad carried Geor-
ga by 5000. In Pennsylvania the run was very
close and the parties were about equally balanced bot
%9s ssS bsn y s ssyns ys Sc Many
test, and that should do better at the presidential
contest But we found in the sequel that they were
for we beaten President in every one of the
States that we had lost a, The State elections, and in
each instance by increased majores.
In lsd4 the results OF the State elections indicated the
triumph OF Mr. Polk the democratic candidate. indiana,
Illinois, and Missouri went democratic in August, and
though Kentucky and North Carolina went whg, il was
by small maioriiies In the former State Butler tdemo-
cfa) who Tor governor, within four thousand
votes OF an election, while Graham the present whix
candidate for Vice President only beat Hoke (dcmocrat)
for governor, some $500 Vermont, too went whis by
less majority than usual, which favorable indica-
ton. Maine elected democratic governor by ten thou
sand majority, with strong prepondcrance OF the same
party in the legislature.
Georgia went d democratic in October by some two ,bou
sand majority, and Pennsylvania followed by about
900, that being Governor Shunk's majority Ohio went
whig BY small majority. Tod !democra) being beaten
States that went democratic at the first contest went
for Mr Polk in Noyeaber by increased majorites while
all ihe STATES tnat Tue wings carried voted TOR Mr. Clav
will be seen that The State election that year. "A we'll
as isio. reflected public sentiment entirely on the pses
denlla question. We come TO 1915, when thew
IN like manner showed that General TAYLOR would ~
chosen In August OF that year the democrats carried
as usual, indiana, Illinois, and Missouri and thr wt,rs
North Carolina and Kentucky. There was no chausc
either IN Vermont or Maine, the FIRST Of which wsnt
whie and The latter deinocrac But the October elec
lions resulted disastrousy for the democracy Georsa
and FLORIDA went over to the whg ranks and Penn
syyana, which had been relied upon for Case and IN
WAS ~ anf ofo b,no
governor Johnstop) By majority Of some 3Oo and also