Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1853-08-11

The Election in the Third District is
over, the Result known, and may now be
summed up.
1t is a.great Triumph triumph for The
Wigs, and their principles; but we do not
claim it as a party victory. The Wings are
indebted to Benton men, and Anti-Bsnon
men, for the success of their candidate, and
for the triumph Of one Of their leading prin-
cipes, Intetnal Improvements.
The Benton men held the balance Of pow
err in the District, but as a party, they re-
fused to scit, either by voting for Lindley,
or standing still. A portion of them voted
for LindIey; portion refused to vote; but
The largest portion voted for Jackson, in
the face of all their own denuDciatiuns Of
him, and his denunciaIion Of them and Ben
Ton. In some portions Of the District, they
boldly tool. the choice of evils, and voted
for Lindley. They could not be made 10
swallow Mr.. Jackson, despite his sclt-sow-
der, and platform appeals. They knew the
the man, and would not trust him, and,
thinking he ought to be beat, voted accord
ing'y. As party however, they may be
said 10 lave cared in, and directly or indi-
rectly unsuccessrulIy aided to elevate their
worst enemy. We leave them where they
placed themselves, to their own reflections
promising that they feel more unromforta-
be than those of their party who assisted in
killing off man personally obnoxious to
them, and obnoxious to all good citizens o.
the District, who have the prosperity Of the
State at heart. q.
The most gratifying reflection connected
with the result is the triumph of the great
prlnciple Of Internal improvements for which
the Wings have ever contended. The
North East portion Of the District was
specially interested in this subject, and there
is where the work was done. They were
interested in the North Missouri Rail Road,
which Mr.. Jackson had tried to defeat
They were interested in the Canton and
Bloomfield Rail Read, lii for the con-
truction of which Governor Price vetoed,
and Mr.. Jackson sustained that veto. OPP
position TO these two measures, did the work
for him. Wings, Benton men, and Antics,
cast their votes against him on this ac-
count, and defeated him, as he should have
been.
This, we repeat, is the most gratifying
result Of the canvass: because it establihes
aprinciple---a principle in which the whole
State is interested. The democracy have
played hide and seek on this subject, long
enough. The eyes of the people are open
ed, and one of their first acts, after they
were opened, was 10 put the seal of con-
demnation on one of the leaders Of that
party who has SO long acted in bad faith to
the State; who has looked one way and
rowed another; who has declared he was
for Improvement, and either voted against
bills for that purpose, or lodged TO keep
from voting. II is a severe lesson TO him,
and whitening rebuke to his party, and
will force them to abandon their. old fOgy
views and unite with the Wings, Or be de-
ieated. The Third District is an Inter-
nal Improvement District, National and
State, and has worthy Representative,
in the person of Mr.. LINDLEv. He is the
Repre- sentatiye of the District-the whole
District-because, approving of his views,
all parties united to eleo. him. And they
achieved glorious victory!
We might 60 on and give column after
column Of substantial reasons why the re-
suit is gratifying to Wings. We might
show why Mr.. Lndley win make better