The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-11-10
RAVENNA. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER Id, 1855

FL '.A' Prom the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Vote Of Ohio ut llie Recent
EIectiOn-COmParisOn with 9TH
ier Hears--FaCts for Democrats.
Upon our first page will be found the off,
ciul vote Of Ohio on Governor and Lieuten-
ant Governor as returned by counties to the
office of the Secretary of State, at Colum-
bus. 1t is taken from the State Journal, and
may be relied upon as strictly correct. In
giving it to our subscribers for preservation,
we propose to compare II with the results OF
elections In former years, and make such re-
marks as the comparison suggests. In 1859,
at the State election in October, for Supreme
Court Judge, the vote stood as follows
Caldwell, Democrat, 147.9S6
Haynes, Wing, 'ea .i i3o,5o7
Sutliff, Abolitionist, 22,524
b Ii will be seen had there Been a isfosion''
Of the opposition, such as existed this year,
Caldwell would have been beaten in 1859
about tsfive thousand votes. The whole vote
Of the State was three numbered and ten thou
sand. In November, 1859, the Presidential
election took place. The total vote was
forty thousand more than it had been the
month previous, and was divided as follows
among the candidates: a..
Pierce, Democrat, l69,220
Scott, Whig, ...3 1886
Hale, Abolitionist, 3l,6S2
Although Pierce beat Scott sixteen thou
sand votes, yet had there been fusion, such
as existed this year, he would have lost the
State by fifteen thousand. In 1853 the vote
stood thus for Governor: ....h
Medill, Democrat, l47,663
Barrere, Wing, s6,s2O
Lewis, Abolitionist, 50,346
The whole vote of the State was very
small-only two hundred and eighty-two
thousand, The wings, despairing of sue
cess, and dispirited by their Presidential de-
feat, made no effort, and the consequence was
Medill had about eleven thousand more votes
than both his competitors combined. This
was owing, we repeat, to the dimunition of
the Whig vote, and not to any increase in
the Democratic. In 1854, the "fusion'' of
the Wings and Aboltionsts took place in
Ohio. The public mind was crazy about
AbolfGonism and Know Nothingism, and
upon the excitement the opposition carried
the State by an altogether unprecedented
vote. 1t stood thus on Supreme Court
Judge:
Swan, Fusionist, lS6,49S
Norris, Democrat, l09,075
The whole vote was two hundred and
ninety.six thousand, and Swans majority
was seventy-seven thousand. But eleven
counties in the State of the eighty. mine gave
Democratic tnaiorities, and they were all ve-
ry small. The opposition loudly boasted
that the Democracy were "crushed out" and
annihilated in Ohio, and could never make
another rally. The Fusionists, in July,
1855, made a complete union upon State
ticket, with exception of the office Of Gov
ernor, and even upon him the division was
by no means formidable. they were per-
fectly organized all over the State, and, en-:
couraged by their great victory of fs5+,were
in the best of spirits. The Democracy on
the other hand, were demoralized by the de-
sertion of many of their most trusted lead
ers to the Know Nothings and to the Aboli.
tionists the issues in the campaign were
not as boldly and strictly defined as they
should have been by the Democratic State
Convention, and the State ticket had upor
it two or three names by no means popular
with tho Democratic masses, and in who's.
behalf it was impossible to draw out full
vote. Under these circumstances the elec
ton came on, with the following result fol
Governor .t.. .........
Chase, Abolitfonist 146.64l
Medill, Democrat, 13l,O9l
Trimble, Whig, 24,3IO
Chase, although he had fifteen thousane
plurality over Medfll, is in the minority OF
the popular vote about nine thousand. Th'
vote Of the State is quite small, the increase
over last year only being about six or sever
thousand, while it is fifty thousand short o
that cast at the last Presidential elec tion.-
On Lieutenant Governor the vote stand
thus
Ford, Fusionist, 1e9,ls9
Myers, Democrat, 1873, 4S5
Fords majority, 1864
The net Democratic gain since last yea
is, therefore 4l,oC0. The Democratic vote
4 -: - - orl, 100 ono IN IQkf h,s ;ncraa