The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-06-29
The IutelIigencer's "Friend" a' Fis
urcs.

our radical friends in this county are
striving hard to extract ( little comfort
from the returns of the recent election.
strenuous efforts are being made to
cipher out" radical majority in Ohio
county next fall, but the whistling is en-
tirely of q graveyard character Our
neighbor down street has made two
desperate attempts to show that the
radicals will certainly carry the county
this fall, and we have been disposed to
regard his efforts in that line as merely
innocent amusement and not capable OF
hurting anybody very much. His last
batch of figures, however, reveals one OF
two things which are rather suggestive
and which merit some notice.
He says that at the last election the
whole numbeI of votes cast in this couu
ty was $50, and that 762 registered vo-
tiers did not deposit their ballots. He
then supposes that seyen-eighths of the
762 are radicals, but, "to make assur-
ancc doubly sure" magnanimously con-
cedes to the. Democrats one toWtb Of
these votes, and, upon this basis,
figures up a majority of 81 for the
radical ticket, provided the whole regis
tered vote is cast aud provided further
which is certainly pruden) that the
radicals make ~ ,nroads on the Demo
cratic vote ''...
We regret L. observe that figures are
not ourneigl rbo,'s forte; they are eyi-
IDENTITY not his chest holt" Possibly the
!. esplanatien of this may he found in the
old maxim that Figures won't lie"
Now, in the first place the whole mum
her OF votes. cast at tho Lass election in
Ohio county was 3,S5oinstead of $500
Our neighbor seems to have forgotten
that an election was held in Trialelphia
township, and that $50 votes were cast
st that precinct, l97 of which were Dem
ocratic and l53 radical. The registered
voters who did not so to the polls, there
fore, numbered only Il2, instead OF 732
A little further on our neighbor say
that the Union vote at the last election
was 1910 and the Democratic 1884
now,~ it is our impression that the sum
of these numbers is 3 5G4, instead of the
$500 which, the HteNigcRcer says was
the whole number of votes cast. This is
a slight discrepancy for which, we pre-
sumo, our neighbours friend is respou-
sible. The truth is, both of the Numbers
given in. the clause we have quoted
above are incorrect. The Democratic
vote was 2lO7 instead of 1914, and The
q, radiealyote 1863 instead Of 1919.
J, Now, unless the Iatelsgencer expects
the vote Of Triadelphia township TO be
thrown ont next fall As it was this
spring, (aud We most respectfully bat
earnestly thinl hat The present Board
-vs-Sr?ervisOrs is not likely 10 commit
sneh ~ act of tolly) we are somewhat
concerned 10 Know wlat Will become OF
the 81 radical majority with which our
% neighbOI IS labOIng to cheer the hearts
OF the faithful Il, a. The editor fendly
imagines, seven eighth of the registered
vote nov east belongs to the radicals,
that party viii receive just 36oI more
votes in the fan than Il did in The last
election, provided the entire vote is then
cast, because, as 1e Iaye seen, there are
ALP voters registered in Ibis county who
did not vote ON the oath Of Nav If the
Democratic ticket receives the one
eighth so generously accorded to it by tn
htelligencersft viii have 5li votes more
in the spring, aud the entire vote Of the
two parties v vi stand thus Democratic
2,l5oi; Radical, 2,i2St Democratic ma
jority, So
'Si "Fhis, Nas oar neighbsr says 'weeid
do" but we happen to.-kuow tAat the
idea that seven eighths of the registered
voters who did not vote on the oath of May
will vote the radical ticket next fall, is
just about as pIePOsterous as our ueIgh-
boris figures are incorrect We know
that, in one township, out nj q regis
tered voters@h1j failcd ~ vote, % are
Democrats, and-Itl IS al least probable tbat
the sans proporsiOg fTevails elsewhere.
If even half OF thuse1who failed 20 vote
!, as the last election b. radicals, which.
mo one whe Knows what strenuous exe,-
tons the leaders Of that party made to
bring OUT their full vote, viii b. willing
TO ooncede,) the Democratic majority
will be, as it, was in May, 34i This
'cosh do, bat the probabilities ary that
the hSnres next fall. even though man p
q uiated by such mathematical prodigy
as istbe friend" who IS fpnning" the
Intelligence, will reveal q much larrer
Democratic majority han wa east car
the rejection of the Constitutional
: amendment.
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