Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-30

The majority against Gen futile in Iowa
will it is said. be 20 900 The later returns only
serve TO swell the majority for Col Stone, the
Abolition candidate The Colonel is a brick -
and deserves his success he proclaimed from the
stump that he had rather eat with niger,
live with niger. sleep with a Niger, than
with white mIn-unleSs the bite man were m
AbOltiOnst He Is entitled to an electiOn-un-
der the present order of things; and need
feel any surprise that his opponent, who went
strongly for the war and the men who conduct it,
should have been worse beaten than anv Demo
crat of the season The truth is Gen Tuttle,
who forced upon the Democracy of Iowa AS
War Democrat" under which paradoxial
term he Was to get the votes OF n majority of the
Soldiers" well "a thousands of the Admins
tratiOn party, found IL a losing business to try 10
compete with the Abolitonists at their own
trade when they had already got the run OF
the business" Other things being equal
that party will generally vote for one of their
own men rather than so called Democrat who
bids for their votes We do rot know that Gen
futile did this; bound To believe him an
honorable man, and he is known 10 be brave
soldier. He may. for ausht we know. be utterly
opposed TO such course; but his position wa>
certainly al unfortunate one HIS "war" prin
ciples did not save him. any more than war"
candidate would have saved the Connecticut
election To the Democracy last spring if they
had done what the New York tribune (aiter the
election) said they should have done in order To
carry the Stste-pamely, put upa less thoroughly
anti war candidate than Gov SEYMOUR The
infamous conduct OF the Administration party
here in removing from the Bench, for purely
partizan purpose, two such able wrists and
unObectiOnable men Judge Seymour
and Judge Waldo, quite cOnclusiyely
disproves the claim that with what are
called moderate men" on the war question for
their candidates the Democracy would secure any
considerable portion of the Republican vote. 1t
the spotless integrity and deservedly high char
acter of two such men Judge Waldo and
Judge Seymour could not avail TO save them
from the relentless partisan prescription of abOli
tionism nor the Bench from being transformed
into a partisan tribunal, VI at could be expected
of any man. in any pOsitionf Least of all could
there be a reasonable hope of elec,ing Demo
crat in Iowa merely the strength OF bis war"
principles such position hurts. not heloS him
even with his own party Anu rs Tor abolition
ism it fights more fercely Vallandgh IN in
Ohio than il does Seymour in New York. In
deed. the latter gentleman has been quite as bit
terlv and unjustly assaulted by these JAcobins As
ever Vallanaigham was. Ii shows that il is a
great mistake Tor Democrats to imagine that ther
can placate the bowling fend. abOlitioniSm. or
gain even dearly purchased ephemeral success.
by putting up distinctive war men Tor their
candidates The Democracy have ever stood on
principle and they can least afford now, of all
times. TO make any concessions 10 their opponents,
which only have the effect to diminish their own
vantage ground and make their deieu It at all times
more complete. They can afford to bide their
time. They have the proud consciousness of
having dtrdgS been the friends OF the Union and
the uphOlders of the Cons;itutiOn-now in thu
midnight tempest OF Abolition tyranny aud CEN
tralization. : IN the DAYS before the outbreak of
the war. when they were sneerei as Union
savers" by those who At present arrosite 10
themselves all the "loyalty" and al the friend.
ship for the Union Is it for the Democrats to
try 20 compete with their sectional opponents in
bids for the votes of such party! To do 30
would be to abs ndon not only the hope. but the
means. OF restoring the Union. Hartford Times