, 1854-09-16
From the Extra Pioneer and Democrat Of 9th inst.
ELECTION NEWS!
Glorious Result in Thurston County,!
THE WHOLE DEMOCRATIC TICKET ELECTBD!!!

THE NH6LE DEhOCRAIlC IlCkET ELEClBD!!!
Had we any disposition to triumph over
a fallen political enemy, the result Of the
recent election would afford ample materi-
rial for severe retort upon the many boasts
Of our opponents, that they would be able
to carry successfully, three out of four rep
resentatives, and all the important county
officers. But we have no stomach to in
dulge in recriminationS or add one drop to
the cup of woe consequent on their defeat.
Let us then apply the dignity-the mag
nanimity Of military achievements and
physical warfare, to ourselves, in politi-
cal point of view, in the total overthrow of
our opponents in Thurston county and as
much as we may have been provoked by
their jibes and jeers previous to the cleo
tion, resolve that our rej6fcfiigs shall be
tempered with oderation-conscious that
the larcerated feelings produced by their
defeat, all sufficient, without any painful
reference to their high plumed hopes of
triumphant success
The returns of this county are all in Off
cially, and counted, from which it ap-
pears that the whole democratic ticket, as
nominated by the convention, with single
exception, has been elected by majorities
ranging from forty to two.
The four democratic candidates for rep
resentatives entered the canvass with four
of the strongest opponents that the whig
party and their abolition allies could have
placed in nomination-men of high charac-
ter for intelligence, and against the private
moral character of whom we have never
heard a suspicion of reproach aud although
the democratic nominees were fully their
equal in every respect, yet it must be ac-
knowledged that they were fairly mated
resting the contest in the supremacy Of one
or the other of the ancient landmarks of
the two parties. The people decided the
question in favor of democracy, in the cleo
ton of four epresentatives-men of intelli-
gence and integrity, who'are "honest, ca
pable, and faithful TO the constitution" !" as
they will be untiriug in the promotion of
the interests Of their immediate constitu-
ents, and the whole Territory.
Tho ola; ;n,s oe ea,,,o of Al r..
county offices-particularly that Of auditor
and sherfff-were contested with unusual
severity. The candidate for county audi
tor was compelled to draw upon himself
the fire Of both the wings and abolitionists
the latter faction voting for the whig
nominee. Against our candidate for sher-
10, innumerable unfounded reports were put
in circulation, on the eve Of the election in
almost every part of the county in order to
secure his defeat Both, however, were
triumphantly sustained at the ballot box
To all her sister counties that the intelli-
gence would be in any way gratifying, we
would say, that the groundwork of per-
feet democratic organization has been ef-
fccted in Thurston, and that hereafter all
mongrel hydra-headed monsters of faction
will be compelled to vanish at the approach
Of the " straight-Out" democracy. The
recent unfortunate " "cringing of the plant
hinges Of the knee" Of the whg party at
the shrine Of abolitionism, to the end that
success might follow fawning," has been
most disastrous to their hopes, and but a
sad commentary on the political integrity
Of the former. We think that hereafter
each party will be content 10 hang on its
own hook"
P.S. Since ow extra of last week
made its appearance, we have been favored
with the following able article for publca-
ton, from the gifted pen of Judge g. HAYS,
one Of the defeated whig candidates for n
scat in the Legislature. We propose 10
give the article one weeks time to get per-
fectly cool before touching it, but hope, in
the meantime, it will be diligently read and
its contents remembered until our next
issue. The crowded state of our columns
will not permit us to do justice TO an over
hauling of it this week
OLYMPIA, Sept, l5, 1854.
Ma. WMEY-In your extra of the 9th
inst, l find in your leading editorial the
following extraordinary declaration, viz {:
"The four democratic candidates for repre.