Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-21
tFrom the st. Louis Republican,
BADLY lbiSaDDOiuted

The Radicals must have been terribly
disappointed in the results of the elections
in Pennsylvania and Ohio. They expected
something very different. They predicted
something different. They had so little
Judgment of the signs of the times that
they rerlly believed they should achieve
brilliant triumph. Senator Wade, through
the Cleveland Herald, of the Sth, assured the
public that, after stumping the whole State
of Ohio, mingling with all classes, visiting
Radical and Democratic strongholds, his
opinion was the Republican ticket would
be elected by forty thousand majority! Chief
Justice Chase, VINO went through Ohio be-
dragging his judicial ermine in the dust
and dirt of Radical politics, gave it as his
opinion, two days before the election, that
Hayes would be elected by twenty-five
thousand majority, and that the negro
suffrage amendment would be carried by
a big majority. But what terri
BILE come down there is in the results! Ohio
has elected a Democratic Legislature
which will capsize the wagon in which
Ben. Wade has been riding for eighteen
years; Hayes, instead of being elected by
forty thousand majority, has got in by less
than three thousand, and the negro suf-
frage amendment, instead of being carried
by twenty-five Thousand majority, has
sunk with fifty thousand votes on the top
of it. These are sad miscalculations for
tuO hdu1CdiS. lUclT STduu IDdlOTlIY Ol
over forty thousand votes in 1866 dwindletl
down to a beggarly 1900 in 1867, and their
favorite Senator and favorite political
hobby buried out of sight beneath the
avalanche of opposition votes. Who will
care fig hereafter for their prognostica-
tions OF the future? The Pittsburgh Com
naercial, Radical, remarking upon the mis-
calculations of its friends, says: "Our
friends in Ohio are expected to explain
how fhpU ha nnpnpd I'm hQ vida of thp
mark in predicting what the result in that
State would be-" .
The Commercial may perhaps be called
upon to explain why the Radicals ''mis-
calculated" the results in Pennsylvania
The Boston Adrertiser predicted 5hat"Pen
sylvania was certain for the Republicans
by 10000 or $4,000 majority" Radicals
outside of the State were misled by the
confident predictions of Radicals at home
They miscalculated widely. Sharswood
has knocked down the majority of 1900
by which the Radicals carried the State in
1866, and is elected by several thousand
That terrible ''Copperhead," Judge Wood.
ward, is elected to Congress. And then iI
Connecticut, which played the traitor to the
Radicals last April, and which was to come
''all right" in the fall, the same disappoint-
mentis experienced, for the Democrats have
swept the State. 1t is an old adage that 6
man should not count his chickens be.
fore they are hatched. We commend the
adage to our Radical friends. In these
times, when the people have grown as sus.
picious and distrustful of the Radicals as i
they were convicted pickpockets, it is per.
ilous to calculate beforehand upon theil
support. The times have changed. The
Radicals have become fossils already. They
had an inexhaustible political capital dur.
ing the war. That capital is no longer cur
rent now. and as the Radicals have nothing
else to offer, they must stand aside for an.
other party. They may not have looked
for it. They may be sorely disappointed
by results. But Radical political princi-
Piles are as little wanted in these peace
times as Grants batteries, with which he
banged away at Vicksburg.