New-York daily tribune., 1865-10-12
THE oCTOBER ELECTIONS.

| The UnlOnlstS OF PENNSILNANlA ulu HOl
succeed in throwing away their State on Tues
day, as We certainly thought they would.
Every portent presaged such result. They
were apathetic yet factiouS--acrimonious III
their riyalries and feuds, yet indifferent or
llukewarm as to the common cause. That they
should not be badly beaten under such auspices,
is contrary to all recorded precedent
/ Yet they have succeeded, by a popular ma
ljority which, considering that there were no
President, 10 Governor, and no Members OF
Congress 10 be chosen, is most satisfactory
True, the vote being light, they have not polled
Mr.. Lincoln's majority OF 'Gi; and no one e1-
pected that they would But they have chosen
their State Officers, carried both branches of
! the Legislature, and vindicated their ascendency
without half trying. When they try. they can
do ever SO much better.
The result Just achieved will be elucidated by
the following facts:
In 1861, no State Officer or Members of Con-
grcss were voted for, but a Union Legislature
was chosen
In 1862, each party chose IL Members Of Con-
gress, but the Democrats carried their State
Officers: Isaac Slenker turning out Cochran,
the Republican Auditor.General, by 1924 ma
iority.
In 1863. came the Governors election; and
GOV. Curtin, (RepuD. was reelected over Judge
Woodward, (Den.) by 5,325 majority. on the
largest vote ever polled in the State. Soldiers
and others, who came from Washington and
the seat OF war on purpose to vote, cast nearly
or quite all this majority. The Legislature was
barely carried by onr side.
In 1864 At the State October Election,
there were no State Offices to be filled, but
Members of Congress were chosen; and for
days the Democrats claimed majority on the
popular vote. The fnal returns gave Union
majority Of ,736, most Of it cast by soldiers in
camp.
At the Presidential election which followed,
Lincoln had but SIP majority on the Home
fvote; but the soldiers in camp gave him 26,7l2
votes to II, $40 for Mcclellan, raising his aggre-
gate majority 10 20,075. +|
Now, we judge that the Union majority on
/ tut tloulf WV ~ lll S'A III Fi'PVitAVh bbhh ~
was last November; but the Soldier vote will Of
course be very light.
The general result is very agreeable relief
and surprise.
In ONO, Gen. Cox (Union) is chosen Gov
ernor over Gen. Morgan Dem.) by some 20, 900
to $4,000 majority: the vote being Of course far
lighter than last year, when Mr.. Lincoln had
q, 1877 majority on the Home and 81, ,G53 on the
Soldier vote. Lincoln in 1860 had 20,779
majority over all Others, which Wa, just about
the fullest and fairest modern test Of party
strength.
If Gen. Cox obtained the Goyernorship by
writing his anti-Negro, or rather anti.human,
letter to 0berlin, We judge that he paid more for
the office than it was worth. We are sure hel
panied and cooled many thousands ofhis support
ers by that letter. The platform whereOn he was
nominated required Of him no comnttal on the
rights of the Negro, and we think he might
have fairly and properly refused to take ground
on the subject. Had he done so, we believe his
majority would have been greater.
The Legislature now chosen is 10 elect q
U. s. Senator; and Messrs. John Sherman (tho
incumbent, Gen. Robert C.. Schenck and the
Hon. John A. Bingham are in the field as rival
candidates. The jcalousies and feuds thus en-
gcndered doubtless lcssened the Union vote.
Still, 10000, until these latter days, would have
been thought very great majority for Ohio.
IL Iowa, the rival candidates for Governor
(Col. VIM. NJ. Stone and Gen. Thomas II
Benton) are both Republicans, and have served
in the late War, but Col. Stone is the incumbent
ard the regular candidate. The Union Conven-
lion having declared for Equal Rights rrespeet-
i've of color, what was called Soldiers Con !.
yention was held, and Gen. Benton nomnattds
by it on the platform Of resistance to giving the4
Right of Suffrage to Blacks. We write without
knowing the result; but all the Democrats Of
course went in for tho anti.Negro ticket {" as
t s their nature to y; and these, with the anti
Negro Republicans. very probably constitute
majority. .1
When The opponents in our party Of Impair.