The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-09


dent JOhnsOn's Future Policy Fore
Swallowed.
From the Herald
Pennsylvania to-day elects Governor Legis-
latuIe In part, and twenty-four members OF Con-
gress; Ohio elects Secretary of State and some
other states officers, and nineteen members Of
Congress; Indiana elects State officers, Legisla-
ture and eleven members of Congress; and Iowa
elects minor State officers, District Judges, and
six members of Congress. In ALL there are sixty
members of the national House of Representa-
tives to be elected; and il in these elections the
Republicans hold their own, or anything near
IT, the issue between the Presidents plan OF
Southern restoration and the plan of Congress
may be accepted as determined in favor of the
pending Constitutional amendme ent, which en-
bodi es the ultmatum of Congress.
In Pennsy lvania in 1864 Governor Curuns
majority was little over fifteen thousand-a
majority upon which sixteen out of the twenty
four members OF Congress were carried by the
Republicans. Last year. upon considerably
reduced popular vote, the Republican majority
was twenty-five thousand. General Geary, it IS
supposed, Will at least, upon a iull vote, hold
ths majority, and the indications are that the
Republicans will maintain their list OF Con-
gressmen, although two or three districts are
exceedingly close. There are also two or three
very close districts in Ohio; and if the dominant
party carry seventeen of the nineteen in all, as
better than is generally expected. The same
may be said if they carry eight of the eleven
Congressional districts of Indiana, as they did
in 1864 1t is most probable, on the other hand,
that the whole Iowa delegation will be main
tanned without fracture.
We anticipate, at all events, from these elec-
tons for the Fortieth Congress popular ver
dict III favor OF the constitutional plaus OF
restoration of the Thirty Congress which
will be decisive All the signs OF the times,
from Pennsy lvania to Iowa, point to this result.
The popularity of the Constitutional amend
ment is the most conspicuous feature of this
political campaign throughout the North. 1t
has revived much of the enthusiasm and activity
on the Republican side which carried so ire
sistibly the war platform of Lincoln and John
son against the peace platform of tue Chicago
shent-per-shent Convention. In fact, with the
failure of the Philadelphia last August Conven
ton TO organize new national party from the
conservative Republicans and the remains of the
old broken down Democratic party, these tall
elections are but repetition of those between
the Union war party OF the war and the Cooper
mead peace party; and we therefore look for the
same results, with the impression that this time
this obnoxiou peace-at-any- y-prlce rump of the
old Democratic party will be killed as dead as
the old Whig party, or the Know-Nothing fac.
ton, or the anti-Mason faction or the old anti.
war Federal party OF 1912, or julius Cesar.
Now it appears that, carefully consulting the
current manifestations of Northern puolic
opinion and the signs of the times IN regard to
these impending elections, President Johnson,
desirous of conforming his policy TO the will OF
the people, awaits the general result spe-
cial correspondent at Washington says:-"The
indications gathering in the political horizon
here point to radical triumphs throughout the
North, in which event the President will say to
the Southern states and the world-'l have sub.
mitted my plan to the people, and, so far rs
the people have had opportunity to act upon it,
their verdict has been In favor of the proposed
Constitutional amendment Under the circum-
stances, the best advice can give is that you
Uhe Southern States) adopt the amendment in
hat hor N<N
that all the people that is all the States repre-.
sented in Congress) may consult upon the future
of our great country" This, we are assured
from witness who ought to know, is what the
President says in reference to his future South
ern policy, should these Northern impending
elections reveal decisive weight of Northern
public opinion in favor of the Constitutional
amendment of Congress.
THIS is good news, and we are glad to hear il.
1t places President Johnson properly before the
country as man of the people, faithful to the
will OF the people, and especially to the great
body of the people, who have the right to de.
mand and the power to exact from the lately
insurgent States the terms of their restoration
TO Congress- Upon this ground President John
son may still become the master of the situation
in Congress and in the matter of the reconstruc.
tion of our national parties with the restoration
of the South. The game is in his hands. A word
from him to the excluded States will bring them
to the ratification, and the ratification will
bring them into Congress. Sumner may cry
this will not do, Stevens may still threaten con-
hscation and determination; but the example of
Tennessee is a binding precedent upon Con-
gress, Agree, says the North to the South,
agree to these essential securities for the future
as you have agreed to the ratification of the
amendment abolishing slavery and the doors
of Congress viii be opened to you, and with this
reinstatement in Congress you will have the
power to protect yourselves and to secure your
own interests in the legislation of Congress-
Hence we are glad to believe that the Presi-
dents powerful influence in the South will be
shortly welded in favor OF this Constitutional
amendment; glad, because we are satisfied that
word from him to Virginia, South Carolina
Arkansas, or Texas will settle the question.