Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-10-21
The Election in Columbia County

EeebI tue Iull oHctai vote OF LUIS Nouuty
q. the recent election showing Demo
cratic majority of l4l6 for Col. Davis, for
Auditor General, and one Of 1927 for Coi
Linton, for Surveyor General. Mr. Jaco-
bys majority for Assembly is also l4l6.
The six nominees for county Offices re-
spectively receive majoIities equal to those
above mentioned.
These splendid msjorities are given
upon total vote 10 the County which is
seven hundred below that given at the
Presidential election oil last year, and
show an eSident improvement Of vote and
increase Of D mocratio s.rengih in the
County.
10 1864 the vote stood as follows:
For MoCLELLAN: Home vote, 3ls5
Soldiers vote, l92-3377
For LINCOLN Home vote, 1889
Soldiers vote, ls4--l923.
Nai.--l454
The whole vote was just $500 while this
year the whole vote is 459s, or 7Os below
the former one leaving out Of view the
very few soldier votes from. abroad which
may ye. be returned.
The number $500 (votes polled in
1864 } bears the same relation to 145i,
(the Mcclellan majority that 1898 the
whole vote of 1859 bears to the Dumber
1851. 10 other words, the majority this
year should be only 1851 if it bore the
same proportion TO whole vote given, that
the majority last year bore to the whole
vote then given. But the majority on Au-
di,or General is l4l6, or l55 better than
vote propor,ioned TO that Of last year
would require. Taking into account the
fact that the vote Of last year was highly
satisfactory, this gain Of l55 votes upon
sbe proportional majority now obtained, is
ssplendid result, and it comes too at o
lime when results are unravorable or not
satisfactory 10y reason CT light vOtc) in
most OF the other Democratic Counties Of
the Common wealth. In glancing at the re.
suits in the State, wo observe only two
Democratic Clearfeld, and
Westmorel (Which have done as we'll
as Columbia though Mon,our, Nor
champion, and few others make respect
able returns.
In the four Fishingereek townships, into
which the military political raid was
made last year, the vote stands: Demo-
cratic 500, Republican 1873 1t is very
plain that the armed occupation of that
section Of the county the arrest and i'm
prisonment Of innocent men, and the pro-
fuse and reckless expenditure OF public
money in the enterprise Of breaking the
spir. Of our people, have not left salu-
sary impression concerning Republican
party rule The voting there may be taken
as a saln,sry lesson 10 " loyal" scouu-
drels who are ready to break law, violate
justice, ana rejoice at persecution and
outrage when il cted upon men who diff
er from them ip opinion.
For the result in the State this county
Is not responsible. She has given vote
Of two to one in favor of return to hon.
est governmen, and for restoration Of
national harmony, and she will speak fol
these with still more powerful voice OF
future occasions, whenever the conduct o
public men and the claims Of parties shal
be again submitted to her judgement.
This election also fxes the fact that
majority Of the soldiers in service frou
this County were DEMOCRATS, aud ar,
going to remain such in future. Ever
last year they gave majority vote 70
Gen. MCCLELLAN over Lincoln, although
subjected to all the unfair influences whiol
accompanied army and hospital voting a
that time. And now, when they have re
turned home and resumed the pursuits o
civil life, tho election returns prove tina
majority of them are still Tor tha
grand old Party Of Union and Libert,
which, for half century, has regularl
.fiumphed at elections in Columbia County
The improvement 10 the voting this year
ss shown above, il probably owing to sbo,
from the old veterans who have now 60
home from the army and are. paying thei
respects to the Shoddy scoundrels b.
whom the country was misgovernsd ant
pluudered dur ng their absence.
sJ f. S. NJ. HILL, Esq, Edi.,r o
the " Scranton Register" honored GU,
Office with visit last week We appre
oiats those social visits. Mr. Hill is al
excellent Editor, and has made the Regis
ter one OF the FIRST and best democratic
journals 10 our State.
The woRLD.-The Prospectus Of ID,
HoyA will be found in the Democrat to-