The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-10-21
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The Result.
The Indianapolis JournaL-the State Re-
publican organ-says the Republican State
ticket is beaten. Two causes have produced
this result. First, and chiefly, the Republic
cans have done their duty in the cleo
ton. In some of the strongest districts the
vote is light and shows a margin large
enough to have put the success of our whole
ticketin, if it had been rightly used. Second,
the anti-Lecompton Democrats who sup
ported Republican or independent
for Congress run up the Congressional vote
gloriously. In the eth the majority for
Davis exceeds 5000, change of 4, 500 from
the vote of 1856. In the Sd Dunn has / 200
majority, change $500 from 1856. In
the lst Niblack has but 1000, gain of
$500 over the opposition vote Of 1856
In the 9th Porter has l, loo, change Of
1000 from 1856. In the 9th Calfax has
1000, gain of ], 900 on the vote of 1856.
In the 10th Case has 1900, gain of 700
on the vote of 1856. Thus it will be seen
thai gain of 13, 500 votes has been made
on the Congressional figures Of 1856. If
the State ticket had run near the Congress-
men, it could not have been defeated. But
the anti-Lecompton Democrats who united
with us for Congress did not support our
State ticket, generally, and in the 1st Dis
trict at least large portion of them OPP
posed it The defeat of our State ticket
tells us that we cannot claim the really great
victory on Congressman as our own, but
must, in justice, share it with anti-Leeomp
ton men. Let it, therefore, be heralded, not
as Republican victory, but as an anti
Lecompton victory. Sc
The Journal, we hope, now sees the folly
in bringing out an exclusive Republican
State Ticket in the Spring. If the Republi-
ems deferred action, and united cordially with
all sections of the anti-Leeompton party, in
the support of an Independent anti-Leeomp-
ton ticket, the Opposition in Indiana would
have achieved as glorious triumph as the
Peoples party have now in Pennsylvania
The selfish rule or ruin policy of the Re-
publican leaders, who seem to prefer de-
feat of their cause, to sharing the offices and
honors of the State with others, has alone
prevented the Opposition party from sweep
ing the State by a majority of 10000. L
the Republicans had waited for the nomina.
ton of an Independent Opposition ticket
and rallied to its support at the ballot box
with the same liberality and ardor that all
sections of the Opposition united IN sustain
ing the Opposition candidates for Congress
the Independent State ticket would have
been elected by larger vote than was given
to the anti-Leconlpton Congressman, and
Niblack and English could both have beer
overwhelmed with defeat The great
barrier to a cordial union of all the element:
of the Opposition was the existence of thu
exclusive Republican State ticket 1t de
teated Hovey and prevented the election o
a better man than Bill English.
With good anti-Lecompton State tcke
the first and second Districts might have
been carried by majorities of several thous
ands.
Ifwisdom is to be gained by experience
the lesson may be useful one to the de
feated party. As the Republicans hay
abandoned nearly all their distinctive tenn
perance and anti-slavery tenets-or profess
at least, to hold them in abeyance-there
nogood in preserving their exclusive organ
ization and name. "Republicanism' ant
"Black Republicanism," have odium enoug
attached, justly or unjustly, to them, t
brighten thousands of Americans and ant
Lecompton Democrats from an alliance @
connection with party bearing the appe
lations. As the party cannot under tn
load of prejudice against it. achieve
triumph in this State by ITSELF and as
will bring ruin to any party that shall oper
ly ally itself with it, its usefulness and pow
er is at an end, and wisdom as well as pa
triotism require its members to allow it t
be absorbed by the large conservative part
that is forming in opposition to the uncor
stitutional doctrines and the ruinous an
extravagant measures of Buchananism