The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-23

from fhe World.
We trust that the approaching canvass in this
State will be planned and conducted mainly
with reference to the election of conservative
candidates TO Congress. We mean by this that
the selection of candidates for Governor and
other State officers ought not to be made with
reference TO the bare possibility or probability
of tIefr election, but with reference to the
inroads they are likely to make on the radical
strength in the rural counties. II is quite
conceivable that we might elect our Slate
ticket, without materially increasing the num-
ber of conservative members sent by this State
to Congress. At present the New York delega-
ton consists of eleven Democrats and twenty
Republicans. IL would be useless and barren
triumph Tor us to elect a Governor, and, at
the same time Increase the conservative
members OF Congress TO only twelve or four
teen. But moderate gain in all the districts
now represented by Republicans would accom-
plish precisely this barren result. An increase
OF the conservative vote IN the districts now
represented by Democrats would, it is obvious,
strengthen the State ticket without adding
to the conservative strength in Congress. And
so, similar increase IN all the radical districts,
If not sufficient to overcome the radical MAORI
ties in those districts, would, in like manner,
contribute to the OF the State ticket, but,
at the same time, displace none of the radical
Congressmen. 1t is evident, therefore, that we
lulEul eject OUT CIdIe IlCkeJ, ana vet 1all 10
accomplish any beneficial result with regard to
the great issue now pending before the country.
1t is Tor Congress TO decide whether the South
ern members shall be admitted. II we tail to
change the political complexion of that body,
the restoration of the Union will be postponed,
and no man can answer Tor the future tran
quillity OF the country.
1t must accordingly be seen that it will make
a great difference whether the conservative
State ticket Is elected by five thousand, or by
seventy-tive or q hundred thousand majority.
II it barely wins, 1t will be by such small in
crease of the conservative vote, difGused all
over the State, that the radicals will continue 10
have large majority OF the congressman. The
only difference will be, that the conservative
members will be elected by little larger MAORI
ties, and the radical members by majoritles
somewhat diminished. it would be great and
fatal mistake if we were to allow party pride,
or personal aspirations, or an overweening con-
tidence, or the intractabillty of men who are
capable OF moving only in a deeply-worn rut, to
pIoQuce this disastrous result.
If there is force in what we have now said
and we believe men of sound Judgment will con-
cede that 1t has great tOrCe-our State ticket
ought to be selected chiefly with reference 10 its
strength IN the rural districts. To nominate
candidates who are strong merely in the great
Democratic strongholds, such as New York,
Brooklyn, Albany, and Buffalo, might secure
their election, without furnishing any effective
aid to the President in his attemptto restore the
Union. But it, on the other hand, our ticket is
MADE up OF men who are known and popular in
the interior OF the State, it will swell the con-
servative vote Just where reinioTcements are
chiefly needed. 1t is to no purpose to say that
this or that candidate is popular in the great
Democratic strongholds, unless he is also able
TO diminish the radical vote in the districts now
represented III Congress by the enemies OF the
President. The great thing Is TO elect as many
conservatives as possible In those districts. IT
would be better even co lose little elsewhere,
ii we could thereby insure q majority of the
Congressman. What we gain over the vote OF
tFfnTNn fnrNfs hNlf rIpr IN 10
OF tai deeper consequence. The former might
elect our State ticket; but it is only location
OF the gains in the right places that can give us
a majority of the congressman.
We can hardly expect continuance OF the
patient attitude OF the South, if the North fails
to elect a conservative majority in the next
Ooneress., The Southern people behave with
great foTbearance, because they nave no evi-
dence that the present dsuniOn Congress fairly
represents the public sentiment of the North.
1t was elected while the war still ragged, and
when the animositles kmdled by the war were
blazing with unabated tervor. 1t was elected as
a war Congress- and although peace intervened
before Its first meeting. 1t has acted in the same
hostile spirit towards the South in which 1t was
chosen. The South is keenly alive to the injus-
tice of such a course, but they do not charge ii
upon the Northern people. But II the Congress
about to be chosen shall be of the same malig-
nant stamp, the South will naturally regard il
as an evidence that it is the deliberate purpose
Of the North to oppress and humiliate them.
They will be more thai human II they car
then restrain their resentment. 1t is, therefore
OF vital consequence that the conservative
cause should succeed in this election, and thai
Its triumph should be so signal as to convince
the Southern people that in return tor ODE
dience and 10y atty, they are to be fully rein
stated in all their FEDERAL rights. If we merely
elect State officers without securing conserva
tive Congress, the Northern elections will b'
productive of even less good than those OF the
South The South will elect conservative Stat
officers; but what will that avail? And the con
selvative members which we send, unless the.
amount to a majority, will be as powerless il
CONGRESS as the Southern members will b.
out of it. For once, for simply this once
everything must be made 70 bend to the election
OF conservative Congressman.