The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1861-12-13
7 HE PILOT.
M inflow c.:
FRIDAY MORNING, DEC. 10, 1861.
The State Canvass and the State
Journal.

ready published, shows that the vote for
State Officers is more than one third or
over $4,000 less than the vote for Presi-
Dental Electors last year. The candidates
three Dem ocrats aud five Republicans
running on the Union ticket were elect
ed by majori:ies ranging from 5 to Il 900.
The successful candidates were backed
by the whole present enormous patronage
of the Stale government, welded for the
most part by interested and unscrupulou-
Republican politicians for the promotion
Of their own ambitious views aud selfish
ends. Almost every village, and ward of
every city in the State, had its emissary
from the State Capital, in the shape of
Colonel, Captain, Lieutenant, or Sergeant,
os,ensibly recruiting soldiers for the war,
but At the same time drumming Up ballots
at the expense of the War Fund, for the
Republican Union candidates for the State
offices
Against mercenary horde, employed
and fed by Office holders who control the
war fund, and office seekers who would
share in that control-against the dennn
cation. Of a venai PIe.s-the DsMoCRACY
with no patronage to bestow, battled no.
bly,, because hope'essl y, for the cause of
the country in the msintainance of its prin.
eples and though overborne in the con
test, it is by no means dishear,ened.
The canvass and its results show most
clearly that the Republican party has be-
come completely demoraized, and its or
ganiza,ion broken up, and that in the next
contest for supremacy the Democratic
party will be called upon 10 administer the
State government, and rescue il, people
fror the Bankruptcy and Ruin into which
An extravagant and pr"tiigse Republican
rule Of few short years has plunged
them.
When tho present war broke out, the
Republican press of the State placed all
Democrats under the bann Of suspicion ~
sympatbzers with the Southern rebels.
and openly denounced all as traitors or
disloyal to the government, who question.
Ell the power Of the Republican party to
snbdue the rebellion within ninety days,
or hes'ated to approve the principles Of
the Chicago Platform, and enlist in the
ranks and fight under the banner of ADo.
litionism for the glory of the Republican
party. But when ii was discovered that
the rebellion had spread over the entire
South, and would reqnire the whole force
of men and money that the Northern
States could furnish TO save the Union from
dissolution, and the government from de-
structon, the Republican party became
alarmed, and pretending to abandon their
| sectional platform, cried out-we will
unite with the Democrats for the sake Of
the Union. But again, when the people
hdu itS' Jhdeu " inc t"il vi the gwen
men', and the requisite amount Of men
and means had been furnished-the Dem
ocrats suppl wing more than their just pro
portion of men-then the Republicans Of
the State returned again to their own
vomit their Press pretended some show
of fairness, and invited Democrats to unite
with them in the election of State officers
but through The control of the money and
other patronage of the State, managed TO
keep that control
HARVEY, an Abolitionist, is nominated
and elected Governor
HASTINGS, an Aboilionis,, is nominated
and elected Treasurer.
Howe, Aboli,lonist. is nominated and
elected Attorney General.
This gives the Aboli,oni.ts the control
Of affair, a, The Capitol, and for the sake
Of obtaining this, the party was willing to
vote for LEWIS, SALoMox, and RAMSEY.
who, we venture 10 predict, will before