The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1860-10-20
THE OCTOBER f3EECTEONS
No s.re.. s;bo,ver After An.

and the early election reports they send
abroad must be invariably setdown as eX
accerated against the Democracy one-haif,
or they Will certainly deceive.
Let US particularize We can produce
twenty different telegraph dispatches aver
ring positively that Curtin has been elect
ed Governor in Pennsylvania by 10000 &c
5000 majority His majority is less than
1900 For a week the telegraph de-
spatches have insisted that Only had gone
Republican BY $4,000 to $1,000. The real
majority Is little over 5000. The 10000
in Indiana dYindles down to 1,CoO, and SO
on to the end Of The chapter
Now that the smoke and fog raised by
these partial and lying kilograms is passing
away, however, and the official returns
reach Us slowly by mail, we arcade TO ex-
pose tie Lumbug nature Of these treinen-
cous Republican victories and the unsub-
stantial foundation Of the high blown
hopes they build upon them. Let US take
TIC States in detail
PEsHsYLvASIA.--Iou can see any day in
the Chicago Tifl,7.t, Journal, &c., table
giving the returns from the different coun-
ties in Pennsylvania, and they foot up
about 30 600 In the Harrisburg papers,
however, and New York papers, the foot
ings are somewhat different bringing out
Curtin some 1900 ahead, and many coun-
ties still reported which every otSciat
addition cuts down the majority.
In the samc papers the Congressman
are invariably put down Republicans 20,
Democrats 5-Demecratic gain, l. TO exc
out this. they steadily claim gain in the
first district Philadelphia, Of Butler over
Lehman, when it is notorious that Leh-
man is elected, and that the only shadow
of claim there IS for Batter is a return
forged by Republican judge Of election,
and who is now in limbo for the forgery.
PENNSYLVANIA was carried by a close
union of the Bell and Lincoln men. The
only chance for carrying that State for
Lincoln in November depends on keeping
up that union The idea IS absurd The
Bell men in Pennsylvania scout it, and
will vote their own ticket to a man, which
VIII leave Lincoln 10000 behind III the
race.
OHIo.-No republican paper puts down
their majority in Ohio at the late election
at less than o, 900 Yet the Oki0 Statesman
publishes table Of official and reported
lnajorities in every county in the State:
for Supreme Court Judge, which foot up
! as follows:
Majoritie. for Briukerh0G- 81 -
- - s-tL--... -----'' 80
Bsfukerhof7s total majority s,19i
Compare this with Denuison's majority
in 1859, which was 1926, and the result
shows a falling of OF nearly 5000 in the
Republican strength in the State. The
loss is even greater than this, for the full
Republican vote Of Ohio was not polied, a
the returns from the Western Reserv
l. show, in the International election. Tn
Democratic gain IS also shown in the fac
that while the Republicans carried eigh
more counties in 1859 than the Democrat.
the majority of counties is transferre
= this year to the Democratic column.
And the Cincinnati Eg7,jrsr Of yesterda
IS asserts as beyond contradiction that tn
L. majority for BBISr&aEoFr, instead OF bein
"A q 900, asFclaiued Iy the Black Republ
le cans, VIII Lot exceed 5000. "Judg
.d BRGyErRnorF, upon whom the fight va
O. made, has Just saved his bacon, while
n change of five hundred votes would haT
" elected three additional democratic men
1t bors of Congress- giving the Democrats
majority Of the delegation. The Eog"'r'
N ure:os . union of the Douglas and Bell 70
X COS on one ticket, and insists that IL
y State can be carried against LINCOLN.
Of The truth Is, the Republicans have g
le capped defeat in Ohio by the skin OF the
N teeth, and were only saved by the inf
o. NOUS decision Of ther Supreme Judge Ia
H. winter. that muiattoes are white men, /
as which they let in 1900 negro votes.
'd IyDIAxA-Up to within few days eve
u the Democrats were induced to conced
u from the exasporated telegraph report
70 that they were beaten some 1900 in Ii
y diana. BY official returns in the In diam
n polls Sentinel Of Monday, however, froi
&c nearly all the counties in the State, it
70 apparent that Lane majority will not e1
coed 5000. Now as all the Bell men VIII
could be seduced by Dick Thompson t
sr vote the Black Republican ticket, and al
II the Breckenridge men in the State voteC
T. the same ticket, what difficulty will ia
T. Douglas men have to overcome this ms
iority in November, when there viii b
&c both Q Breckenridge and Bell ticket il
e the field We look upon Indiana as pei
o fectiy sure State.
; Now we respectfully submit to our De
I mocratic friends, among whom we occa
ii sionally find one who is discouraged il
lie view Of the results OF the October election:
Il whether, looking at the returns in tn
II light the official count casts upon them
- there is cause for dependency?
d Ia Pennsylvania the Douglas and Breci
) enridge men are united on one electors
y ticket, Us viii be seen by our despatche
= to-day, and will cast for it at least the vot
d they gave Foster This TO sane ma
= doubts There is a Bell ticket in the field
D. which viii take away at least $4,000 vote
to that were cast for Curtin. What chance
ID then Is there for Lincoln in Pennsylvania
- In Ohio the Bell men oiierto unite wit
the Douglas men, and if they do so, Lii
coin viii lose that State And what {
Is New York? The whole opposition to see
e tional Repubiicanism is united on on
III ticket against Lincoln in New York
N This opposition in 1876 beat Fremont -