The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-10-09
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xys - The Electtonn To-Day
The elections to DO held to-day in
several Of the Northern States are, per-
|haps, the most important that have ever
been held since the formation OF 'no
Federal Union. We are trembling up9.
the verge of . civil war war teni0.o
moro bloodyand destructive OF the hOelty
and nroapsrity of the people than that
throngh which we have just passed.
This war viii be either hastened or
averted by the result Of the elections to
be held to-day. These elections are
looked to with anxiety by both parties
and by both with some degree OF hope.
The canvass in each of the great States
voting to-day has been most thorough
and complete. Popular meetings nave
| been held in almost every voting pre-
| cisot, the political questions OF the day
have been ably and closely discussed and
the people generally are well informed
as to the nature of the issues upon which
/ they are called to decide.
| Tt is useless for us this morning to
| record any prediction ss to the exact
result of these elections. 1t is not worth
while for us to say whether we
believe that HESTER CLYMER or JOHN
| w. GEARY will be elected Governor OF
Pennsylvania, when, in few hours, the
die will be cast and the event pass from
the province of prediction to be classed
among accomplished facts. We will say
this, however; we firmly believe that
the Democratic party has made large
and important gains in each ofthe States
holding elections to day. We believe
that the Democrats will elect members
of Congress in many of the. Districts now
represented by radicals, and we are en-
| tireIy confident that the official returns
of the elections will show that our belief
is we'll founded.
We desire also to caution our readers
against yielding too ready credence to
the first unofficial returns or rather esti-
mates of the result The Radical party
has in the last few years developed q
capacity for lying about the elections
that is truly wonderful. They seem to
have reduced misrepresentation to q
perfect system, and almost invariably
attempt to spread the belief that they
have been entirely successful, long
before the result of election can
possibly be known. 1t is pro-
bable, therefore, that the first tel
egrams received will indicate a radical
victory; but no one who remembers the
propensity of the Radicals to hurrah be-
fore they are out of the woods, will be
deluded into giving credence to these
reports.
But, however these elections may
result, whether the Democrats or the
Radicals are successful, they should
exert but little influence upon the con-
test in this State. We have here local
issues entirely Independent OF and dis
connected from the great national ques-
tions to be voted upon by the people of
the Utmost Importance to the prosperityof
our State and the welfare ofOur citizens,
and, however the people of other States
| may vote in relation to national affairs,
I the result should exercise but little in
! fuence upon our efforts to redeem West
Virginia from the curse of radical mis-
rule Whether CLYMER or GEARY is
chosen Governor of Pennsylvania has
little to do with the question whether
SMITH or FOREMAN shall be Governor OF
West Virginia. There tho people nave
fov, orro-s OK administration OF which to
I complain there, there has been no at
tempt to disfranchise large portion of
the citizens, contrary to law; there the
constitution of the State has been
| respected and the judiciary is conceded
to be above the dictates of petty
partsanship. But here We are
laboring under an accumulation of
wrongs that would drive the people of
Pennsylvania into open and defiant re-
bellon were they perpetrated in "the
Keystone State" Under these circnm-
stances, the result of the elections to-
day can have but little influence in
determining the result in this State on
the 25th. If either of the States that is
to vote to-day were afflicted with such
legislation and such an administration
ef State affairs as have been imposed
upon the long suffering people of West
Virginia, the party that supported these
shings would go down before storm of
popular indignation such as has never
heretofore been witnessed in the land.