The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-09-01
"The Apparent Difference Of Opinion y
The Significance of the Territorial
Election.

, the Territorial Delegates can render no as.
sistance in organizing Congress In favor, Of
either the President or Radicals But NOR.
ally the Territorial elections are of vast i'm.
portance. They reflect the opinions of the
people, and like vane upon steeple-top.
point the course of the political wind. The
breeze, as light as a summers zephyr in a
Territory, may prove a tempest in State
IThoHgh efecting nothing in the Territory, it
may be the fore-runner of the storm which
will revolntionize the country, sweeping away
old parties and clearing the political atmos-
phere for a new era. As the Indications of
popular opinion, these Territorial elections
are watched with eagerness by the statesman
and politician.
When the. dispatch was received in the
philadelphia Convention, conveying the In
ltelligence of the election of Hunt, the Ad-
minislration candidate for Congress in Colo
/ RADIO, it was greeted with loud cheers. It
showed the drift of popular sentiment among
the mountains. 1t gave moral support to
the Convention proportionate to fhe signi6-
canoe of the Territory. It pointed to the
probable result of elections in adjoining Ter
ritories and States. 1t gave the President
the assurance that though far removed from
the great centre of the political world, love
of country, and of the whole country, and
just regard for the old republican form off
government, with all its safeguards, had not
been lost by the TRANSPORTATION beyond des-
erts and mountains. 1t furnished token of
the sympathy of the people with the Presi-
dent in his daring, patriotic effort to preserve
the last remains of American liberty from
destruction by the hands of the enfuriated
fanatics of Congress.
The late election in idaho Territory IS an
other assurance of popular support. The
canvass was mostly made upon the distinct
issue between the President and Congress
The policy of national restoration, since rep
resented in the Philadelphia Convention, was i
earnestly endorsed by the Democratic Terri II
orial Convention which re- nominated Mr.. 9
4olbrook. That Convention resolved "That I
We are unequivocally opposed to the action e
if Congress in refusing TO restore the Union. q
" refusing to admit the representatives of
leven Southern States, and believe it revo- 5
utionary in character and dangerous to tae A
iberties of the people" ."That we now do, c
nd will sustain President johnson in his f
olicy for the restoration of the Union, and j
a his efforts to restore the Southern States E
0 all their constitutional rights that we K
varmly approve of the Presidents veto of e
ne Freedman's Bureau bill, and Civil. Rights W
i'll, and that we will uphold the President c.
/ his efforts to defend the Constitution of the p
nited States against the attacks of theradi- lrc
al fanatics, who are now in majority in B
ii
While this Convention thus took open, en- pl
hattie position in defence of the President, &
le Republican Territorial Convention en-. B
Favored to dodge the subject altogether, and dl
lally satisfied itself with simply " regretting ar
% apparent difference of opinion between w
@ President and Congress-" and reposing 81
entire confidence in BOTH" But when Hthe i h
'parent difference" was argued before the l..
.opie on the stump, it appeared that Con- ri,
ess absorbed nearly all of that " entire con- NJ
leuce." The President virtually found no or
dorsement among the Republican speakers ga
e remember but one public advocate of
election who expressed satisfac- is
IN with Andrew Johnson; but the Civil Ida
ghts and Freedmen's Bureau bills were he
alously defended. 8H A.5J4f
The people Of Idaho send delegate to !.
ashington who represents the popular feel - =
6 of this Territory in regard to this tap -
rent difference of opinion In a few -,
eeks Montana will send another. The feel =.
g in the Territories is unmistakable. From t'ii
lnsas to Oregon the people declare for the do'
institution and "equal and exact justice to isl
men," the
81 ------------- Gin
Hon. A. G. TURNER left us yesterday for trip sta
Salt Lake, which possibly may be continued to
Atlantic States before returning to this Terri
j.. Mr.. Turner is one of Idaho's pioneers, and GA
slong been known as an enterprsing and active 'na