The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-06-20
Wonderful Discovery.

SuuueiIIy Illauc the grand discovery that
Lincoln beat Judge Douglas four thousand
votes in the celebrated canvass of 1861
How strange that the whole country should
have remained under the dclusion for the
space of two years that the Little Giant had
whipped the Republicans and the Admins
tration combined But we are now told
that this is all mistake, and that Douglas
tmst beaten on the popular vote in that con-
;. .s'i Let us look at the process Of reason
T5s,. s s wosch ;sch this result is worked out
and nd Superintes; election for State Treasurer
aoma ""~ su time Eolnt of public schools at the
three tickets in ss,%a Gces it .nere Mipe Wepe
and Batenan were the 1Iu-S wv WI: M.'Ie,
Republican candidates, SM-so.n;ng a., s0n;g, anu
average vote of 124,993. lecs.'eo an
French were the Democratic candlooay anu anu
received an average vote of 1898 anu
Dougherty and Reynolds were the AdiilI
istration candidates, and received an aver
age of 5,122.
By presenting these figures and consider.
ing the fact that Miller and Bateman were
leading Know Nothings, and run as such in
the Southern part Of the State, where Re
publicanism was odious, while in the North
they were represented and supported as
Republicans, and the Administration hav.
ing ticket in the field, the reader will a,
once see that the combinations against Mr.
Douglas were as strong as they could be
made, and considered at the time they were
as insurmountable. 1t will be observed
that the friends of Miller and Bateman, ir
Southern Illinois, denied that they were
Republicans, and claimed to be Americans
and Fillmore men; and that the opposition
candidates for the Legislature, in the same
counties, denied that they were Republ
cans, and refused to pledge themselves tc
vote for Lincoln for Senator, in order tc
make the people believe that they had nc
sympathy with Republicanism. But now
when it is desirable to make capital for thu
Republican candidate, these very men are
represented as Republicans, and all the
votes cast for them are claimed as being
counted for Lincoln.
The writer of this article happened tc
pass through Southern Illinois during the
canvass, and heard the Hon. Joseph GILES.
pie, an opposition candidate for the Senate,
make speech, in which he emphatically
denied that he was Republican, or sup.
porter of Lincoln, and claimed to be an
American who had no sympathy with Re.
publicanism. In other counties they rar
under the general name of "Qpposition,'
and in others as the peoples Ticket" but
everywhere denied their identity with the
Republican party. In Monroe county, a
large Democratic majority, the Hon. Lyman
Trumbull made speech at mass meeting,
which was called as a meeting of the FRtr
DEMOCRACY, and he addressed them as Ere.
Democrats, and not as Republicans, with
view Of concealing the fact that he, and
those with whom he acted, were identified
with the Republican party. BY these means
many votes were obtained for the "Opposi-
ton State ticket which would never have
been given to known Republican, and es-
pecially to Mr.. Lincoln.
The fact is, that the main contest be-
tween Nv nnnalos and M-- .;ncoln wac in
the central counties, where parties were
nearly equally balanced, and a few votes
gained from one side to the other decided
the result. In those counties it was that
Mr.. Douglas made the large gains which
gave him the victory. Mr.. Lincoln's county
was one Of them. 1t had been uniformly
opposition for more than twenty years, un,
til this contest, when Mr. Douglas carried
the county and secured two membere of the
Legislature by nearly five hundred major.
ity. 1t is notorious that Douglas gains
and Lincoln's losses were in those very
counties aohcre they hal both lired, and had
practiced law, and made speeches for many
years, and where they were both personally
well known to the people. - Washington
States & Union.