Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-01-17

Republicans. If there should be four
teen of these gentlemen, or seven in each
! House, they will hold the balance Of
power, and Of course the Republicans ara
checkmated. Whether there is that
number who will take the "rule or ruin
position, is not yet certain. Our ownl
opinion is that that number can be had!
We judge so from the fact that the Lead
ers of the Democratic party and these
Igentleman are in the closest possible
bonds of good fellowship, and it is boldly
ANNOUNCED that with their aid the DEM
ocratic party can do about as it pleases.
/ The difficulty is in the election of u
S. Senator. Ofthe rs Republican Sem
ators, or those supposed to be such, 20
are in favor of Gov Chase; and of the
So supposed Republican Representatives
4S are of the same views. There are,
therefore, 6S Republican members in fa-
! vor of the election of Gov Chase, and
say Is, if there should prove to be SO
many, against him. But these Is can
not, by any means, agree among them
selves Some are for Corwin, some for
Swan, some for Delano, and some for
Stanton, and one for Schenck. If there
should prove to be that number of cold
lines, - of course Gov. Chase cannot be
elected. That, however, would not be an
insuperable difficulty, for, although it
don't seem exactly modest for the Is to
demand imperviously that the 69 shall
disobey the clear expression of the peo-
pie of the State, and give up their own
preferences, yet, as there are other good
and able men in the State, they might be
willing, for the sake of union, to do SO.
But that would not effect an election; for
the Is cannot themselves agree, and each
squad of them not only requires that the
whole of the 68 Republicans shall come
to them, but that the other little squads
opposed to Chase shall do likewise.
Such is the position of things to-day
These gentlemen want to hold an extri
session next winter, and want the election
of Senator put off till then. Some Of
them have taken the ground distinctly,
that the Republicans must come to them
or there shall be no election. We have
not in all this, nor do we intend hereef-
ter, to impugn the motives of these gen
tleman, nor even to censure them for
their course. We simply state the facts
There viii be another joint caucus on
next Wednesday night, which will prob
ably determine the matter. If it shall be
found that seven members of each House,
or fifteen in both, can be induced to take
this ground, there will probably be no
Senator elected, unless, as the Democrats
hope, but which we do not believe, they
shall join with the Democracy, and elect
an out-and-out Democrat, or some one
of such easy virtue that he will vote with
Jne COuIueFn ulsuHIOHlSeS oA sbAl 4oOS
tions Il at may come before the Senate.
But time will reveal all things.
We trust, however, that this state of
things will teach useful lesson for the
future. We have, as we said, no word
of censure for these gentlemen. 1t is
not for us to Judge their motives. They
do not, as we understand, claim to be
Republicans. Republicans might, if
they did not, have known this before
they elected them. If they are acting
out their honest convictions, they should
be respected for it; and the blame, if any,
should rest with their Republican con-
stituents, whose excessive good nature
put them in their seats to thwart the will
of the party by whose votes they obtained
them. And if it shall have the effect in
the future of correcting this grand mis-
take, good will grow out of it. 1t would
be infinitely better for the party, to let
open Democrats be elected, and take the
responsibility, than to embarrass the
great mass of the Republicans of the
State, by sending up few men who,
however amiable, are not with the party;
and while doing all in their power to
Illustrate its measures and ostracize Its
men, make the true Republicans bear the
responsibility of majority without the
power of a majority to act. -
But this letter is long enough, and we
must close.
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