Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-10-16
Tbe Election in Pennsylvania

The Anti Administration triumph Is COM
plete. The Pittsburgh Gazette of the 18th
states that the footings of the vote on the State
ticket show that Read is elected Judge by at
least $4,000 majority, and Frazer Canal Com
missioner by 10000 Philadelphia gives Read
$500, Lancaster $500, Allegheny 300, Wash
ington 4CO, Dauphin HOO, Lebanon 100,
Mifain 800, Blair 1900, Huntington 600, Indi-
ana 1900, ,-Armstrong 500, and so on.
The Opposition have twenty one of the twen-
ty-fve Members of Congress. The Gazette
states that election of ofLongeneeker, Republican,
in the Bucks, &c District, is now conceded.
The Opposition majority in the Legislature
on joint ballot will probably he about 40. The
Senate will stand. l6 Republicans, II Demo-
Gratis. The Senator'S holding over were 9 Re-
pubIicans and I2 Democrats. The Gazette
gives table Of the House as it will probably
stand The foOtings are II Republicans, 90
Democrats. Opposition majority AZ
Col Fomey, ofthe Philadelphia Press, is evil
dently well pleased with the verdict of the PeO-
pie of PennsyIvrnia- The following extract
from the Press of Wednesday, indicates his
feelings:
YESTERDAY.
Two years ago, about the same hour in which
we are now writing, the editor of the Press,
then the Chairman of the Democratic State
Committee, sat down 10 address the Democratic
party of the whsle country upon the election
OF James Buchanan TO the Presidency, and to
congratulate the people upon the triumph of
the great principle of Popular Sovereignty,
without which Mr.. Buchanan could not have
been elevated to that high position. That was
| in October Of Sc, be It remembered, and that
result was regarded as deciding the Presiden-
tial contest IN November succeeding. Since
that period, the same principle has been kept
consistently in view by the editor Of this Jour
nal but imtermediately, between then and now,
the President of the United States has prefer
red 10 discard the great principle which made
him President, and We have been thrown, by .
series Of events familiar to tie people, into a
hostile attitude 10 his policy in this respect
Every effort which has been made towards
Cancellation and federation has been haugh-
thy refused. AN APPEAL WAS THEREFORE,
TAKEN To THE PEOPLE or PESNsYLvA-
MA And now we sit down, as we did in
1856, after the October election. to chronicle
the triumph Of the principle which elected
James Buchanan TO the Presidency. But we
deeply regret TO say that this lime We are called
upon to rejoice over the triumph Of the prin-
/ ciple, and the defeat of the man who was elect
ed upon it. at this writing, it looks as if al
most every Congressional LccomptOnite in
Pennsylvania had been defeated SO much for
those who have preferred the patronage and IA
vor of the President to the confidence Of the
people Thus much for the Executive, who
has chosen 10 turn his back upon the immortal
doctIine that the American people shall control
their Own affairs in their own way, and who
has dared to erect, in every district in Pennsyl-
vania, an official influence at war with the fun
damental principles Of the Constitution. Thus
much for the new and startling idea that not the
Federal Union, but that "the President must
and shall be sustained" But this result Is not
only attributable to the uprising OF the people
against the betrayal Of their Representatives aud
the gross dcsertiou of the popular principle by
the Chief Magistrate Of the Republic; but 1t is,
at the same time, tribute 20 Pennsylvania
feeling, and 10 thar idea which Is cherished by
all our PEE ple-that of protection TO American
industry.
The Pennsylvania (Buehanan's organ) says
of the overwhelming defeat of the Democracy;
The causes which produced this result we
have not time to indicate at present They are
mostly local. Some Of them we fear fraught
with evil for the future. As to the general iss
ues, that of change in the Tariff was the most
potential in the hands Of the INSCRIPTIONS dem
agogues who headed the Peoples movement.