The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-11


TIE TELEGRAPH AND THE RECENT ELECTIONS.
Wecopy the following from late number Of the Gin
cinnad Inquirer
" The democracy Of the country have always bad just
ground Of complaint against the management Of the telegraph
wires for they have been conducted with anything
like fairness mpartiaity All of the public dispatches
the lines and paid for BY the press without regard
party have had in political matters strong whig bias
and inclination The have not confined themselves
the elegrapbiug Of facts but have their notions
and ideas Of things instead Especially in elections has this
unfanes been strikng manifested News in favor Of the
wings always teegrapbed with great despatch but that IN
favor of the democracy invariably along tardy and be-
grudgngy SO uniform this practice that democrats have
learned place the slightest reliance in twothrd Of the
Geographic dispatches relative 70 elections
We have instance in point showing the subser-
yiepcy telegraph wbig Yesterday came
over the line favor the nothing wings and
great was the anxiety Of the Union Telegraph lay it be-
the public that actually put out slips in advance OF the
newspaper making bulletin board in order that Il
might have effect upon The Kentucky election This
rather unprecedented and gave rise 70 considerable
had i b,cn favorable 70 the democrats it would
have been be Saturday, not photographed at
all Thesp pu ebuses Of great public institution call
loudly for REFORM"
Our experience fully corroboraes the testimony q
our Cincinnati contemporary, The election in Tennessee
took place Thursday, the "a inst Acnte friends n
Nashville forwarded by telegraph the returns of the
governors they reached that city from day 10 day
The FIRST despatch which we received Wednesday
last FIVE days after the election in Tennessee and tro ds
after ne elections II kentucky and Aabama While tee-
graphic communication thus cut off from The demo
cratic press and the democratic party for purposes which
may be readily inferred the know-nothing organs We're
literally supplied with dispatches calculated for the dis
tant merdians of Kentucky and Alabama The New Yor
Herald published despatch in which it gravely an
nounced that Gentry had carried Tennessee by majority
of fifteen topsand The minor orhs of know-nothingsm
twnkled.iu a constellation OF lesser ftlsehoods.
We far from believing that all the telegraph lines in
the country justly obnoxious to the degree of cen
The business of the New York and Washington line rs
far our opportunities enable ndge conducted With
scrupuous fidelity and uneSamped accuracy and despatch
There is of integrity manifested in the manage
ment of the line between this city aud NcS oreans bu,
unfortunately for the interests Of the public the line ia
seldom working order when important news is expected
For three successive evenings this week messenger
informed by the oblgug superintendent Of the southern
Office that eegraphc communication interrupted at
some point in South Carolina in consequence of the pre-
vaing storm The resumption Of communication yeser-
day announced IN another part of the paper this
ing satisfy readers that the storm wheh swept
over Tennessee and North Carolina renl) reached Ala
bama Blu, the wild winds hushed and the dark clouds
have rolled hy while grateful country reoices
under bright democratic skies.