The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-25
The victory OF Thursdny.

The Democratic victory In OnlO conn
g. M Thursday turns ont to have been
mgrh more complete and glorious even
than we had at first supposed, although
on going To press on Friday morning
W. were satisfied that our successes had
been of a very substantial and gratify-
ips character. Additional returns,
which may be found in another column,
show thar We have carried every one OF
the eountry townships. Having also
sven, the city from one end to the 9TH
ar. the triumph could not be more COM
,l,te. The entire Board Of Supervi-
.u,S. ten in number, is Democrat
ic Ia the core. Indeed, all the
officers chosen on Thursday. with one
ar iva unimportant exceptions, are out
spoken, thorough, earnest Democrats
and Ohio county from Brooke to Mar,
,hall is H. completely and intensely
lirmocratir in its government, as the
mns' ardent friend of Democracy could
wish. Although the vote polled is by
nO means n heavy one, our average ma
iurity, n shown by the returns for Sn'
peryisors, is about 400, gain of 2OC
since last fall. and gain which, owing
80 The small vote east, is "a striking evi-
ience of the rapidity with which the
Dova.r of Raaicalism in our midst is
waning. There can he little doubt
that had the vote on Thursday been q
full one, our majority would have been
much larger.
These results afford striking evi.
ience of the fact that the people gen
orally are satisfied with the manner
in which the Democrats have admins
Ierrd the government of this county
ioy the last year. Had their course been
unwise, il would have been unpopular,
hnt as il has been endorsed by so large
a majority few Sill doubt that il has
been satisfactory to the tax-paying
masses. Furthermore there are many
respectable republicans i'll this county
who cannot concur i'll the measures of
their party for the last few months, and
who are unwilling to give any vote
that NAV he construed as an endorse
ment oi negro suffrage, confiscation, or
military Government at the South. Tho
people generally are thoroughly dis
Iusted with the shameful policy of the
Radical leaders in this State, and par
ticularly with the outrageous manner
IN which the Registration Law has
been prosttuted to the purposes of per-
anal ambition or hate. The damning
idcts which have been given from time
10 IiGle in the REGISTER and other
Democratic papers of the State, show
lng the frauds practiced upon Demo
cratic voters by the Registration au-
thnrities, of whom Mr.. FOREMAN is chief,
have convinced the public mind of the
>hamclessness of those authorities and
Of the infamous character of their meas
nres. Hence it is that in Ohio cOun-
ty, where they dare not swindle
and where public opinion finds free ex-
preston; they are visited with terri
ble rehuke from the hands of an iudig-
nant people. Had the result of Thurs
day been different, il would certainly
have been Interpreted as vindication
oi the FOREMAN dy nasty, and as a con-
dennation of its accusers. As it is, we
cannot err in regarding it as a just but
cutting censurc of the various Radical
Nillainies and villains that have been
exposed, and as a complete endorse
ment of the course Of the REGISTER and
ether Democratic papers in exposing
them. The respectable judgment OF
the public" a. expressed through re-
spectacle and reliable channel, is evil
IDENTIFY not in favor Of shielding
scapegraces and scoundrels; and
we think that the most perfect de-
ference should he paid to its decisions.
Thanking this respectable Judgment
of the public" for the handsome CON-
pliment it pays the REGISTER, we trust
ere long, to elicit further evidences o.
,tsapprobation.