The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-06
Inc Election. To.nnI

A4SsASi e+SSOunb4St Ol course, 70 De 6lkeut
as sheis not represented in Congress.
The mostimportant returns are to come
from New York, New Jersey, Illinois
and Missouri, and, perhaps we may
add, Maryland. We mean the returns
that will be looked to with peculiar in
terest. The balance,of the States, such
as Massachusetts,, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minnesota and KANSAS; excite no Curl
osity, as they are certain in advance to
go all fright. Little Delaware may claim
a very slight share ofthe public inter-
est, assheis not as yet one Of the certain
States. We think there Is no reasona-
BILE doubt Of her this timehowever. On
the whole, take all the States holding
elections to-day, with the single excep-
ton of Louisiana, and we may look
for an unbroken continuation OF
the verdict rendered in October by
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa,
and West Virginia, and in September
by Vermont and Maine. The current
is pretty much one way, and the result
will vary very little II any. Very great
exertions have been madei in New York
and Maryland by the Administration
to defeat the Union party. Last nights
latest news from Baltimore, however,
encourages as to look for peaceable
and successful triumph over Executive
interference In that State. We have
little fears of the result as things stand.
In New York immense sums havebeen
levied upon the Federal Office holders,
and they have beensquAndered laVishIy
in the manufacture of citizens. The
large foreign vote in the city will be al
most dead against us, especially the
newly made portion of it. That charm
ing, much abused, and (by theml who'll
~ misunderstood name, "Democracy,"
will lure thousands into the meshes of
such fellows as Wood and Morrissey,
and with cries of "d-n the Niger, p as
In the days of the bloody riots, they
will crowd to the polls and vote against
their own highest interests. We shonld
not be surprised If Hoffman thus se-
cured majority of 10000 or $1,000 in
New York city, and that will push US
pretty close in the State, leaving say a
margin OF fifteen thousand voters
to go on. We look upon
the State as ours beyond reasonable
doubt. The Tribune is seldom mistaken
inits calculations as to the result in that
State, and 1t is quite confident of sue
cess. Mr.. Raymond, too, comedies the
triumph Of the Republican ticket, and
so does Bennett, of the Herald, making
altogether ga three fold cord not easily
broken"
In view of the probable result in 80
many States to-day, 1t becomes an in
teresting question as to what President
Johnson will do with his "poIicy"
when "the people" to whose will he
processes such entire Difference, shall
have decided against him. So far he
has seemed to pay very little respect to
theverdict rendered. Notwithstanding
the result in the September and October
elections, he has kept on as before, and,
in tact, has seemed more mischievously
bent ON his own course than ever, as
witness his direct interference In Mary
land, and his indirect interference in
New York. We hardly look for any
thing different after the elections to.
day. Like the ancient Delphic Oracle,
or the latter day mediums" he will
probably set up the plea that the Hcon-
dEtions were not favorable" and thus
all the talk about the people will turn
out what intelligent persons knew it to
be at the time, mere bosh.
Mr.. Raymond, who has until recent
ly been the Presidents .next friend, !"
warns him that it is now full time to
change his tactics. He bids him pre-
pare for the worst to-day, as he himself
prepared for it after the news from
Maine, and no longer persist in a policy
that not only Congress but the people,
and pretty much every body. else, have
repudiated. "If this method be not
adopted, J" says the sagacious Raymond,
there will inevitably lbe a solution
reached less agreeable TO atleast one OF
the parties, and, at the same time, more
positively adverse to tho policy Of the
Executive"