The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-10-24
The Elec,ion--Its Teach.ngs.

a
ges in popular sentiment indicated by the
recent elections in Maine and California,
have been more than rivalled by the Dem
ocratic gains in Pennsylvania, Ohio, IN
diana, Iowa AMI ConneciiyLt. On the
shores of the Atlantic and the Pacific, in
the mountains OF the asst and the prairies
,f the West, the change is equ lily marked
and decisive.
Nor DO the radicals, in ciphering out
the cause of this overwhelming detection
in their ranks, ascribe it to the true rea-
son. 1t was not caused by Sunday laws,
for these are only local in their appIica-
lion. 1t is not the result of the Temper
ance question, for the change is equally
astounding in the cities and in The yur:l
districts. The unparalleled corruption Of
our last Legislature did not cause the
radical route, for in Ohio tie detection is
still greater than here.
But it is alleged that the Radicals did
not vote while the Democrats did. This.
if it were true, proves nothing, or worse
than nothing, in accounting for their de-
feat. They ali know that the election is
held on The I'd Tuesday Of October, and
those radicals who refused to exercise the
right of suffrage had either changed .hcir
views, or were SO doubtful of their correct
ness as to refuse to enforce them by bal
lot. Indeed, small election may as
truly represent the sentiments of the State
as large one, for those unwilling to as
sert their principles at the ballot box may
well be supposed to have none worth as
serting, while those who have 10 be drag
gcd to the window are the very poorest
/ specimens of sovereignty.
4 But this does not account for the change.
1 The election returns show that in Phila-
j dolphia and several of the counties last
years majority is reversed, while the re-
turns of Cambria county show the same
thing in at least two of the districts,
which, being boroughs, would be supposed
TO poll a full vote. But besides this we
hnolc of many instances in which Repub-
Ic' rs ave voted WiGhus from a chanqe
Of fcpi"ioH, and the same has been the
case throughout the State and country
The causes of the Radical defeat are so
transparent that he that runs may real
them.
The history of our country has been
made by the Democratic party, and their
q opponents, by what name soevcr they
q may have been known, tand their name is
legion, have uniformly lost their mower,
almost as soon as acquired, by their 'wans
ton aggression on the rights of the SOW
ereign people
AT an early day, when they bore the
more respectable name of Feleralists, un~
\ der the elder Adams, they lost power by
\ inti'cting upon the people the odious and
/ ever to be .execratcd Alien and Sedition
i laws, the odium Of which will outlive the
/ name under which the party thel rallied.
From that time the Democrats welded
the power of the nation for quarter of
century, the most glorious as we'll as pros
porous era Of the republic, until second
Adams was accidentally chosen against the
'utfragcs of large majority of the people
AT the next election the wrong was re-
paired in the election of Jackson.
Again, in 1910, under the name of
Wing, by spasmodic effort Harrison
was elected President, but his early death,
and the conservatism of his successor, pre-
vented the abuse Of power, and the Wigs
lest the fruits of their victory.
Again, in 1913, the opposition to the
Democrats succeeded in CARRYING the
PRESIDENT through the military popularity
OF Gen Taylor. His death put Mr. Fill
more in the Presidential chair, whose con-
serVatlVe sentiments restrained the spirit
OF evil, and has since made him a SUD-
porter OF Democratic principles
Thus far the rule of the Radicals, or
those whose successors they are, were
brief and at distant periods. In 1860 the
divisions in The Democratic party gave
them new lease of power, which they
prepared themselves to embrace by nomi-
mating purely sectional ticket upon sec
tloral grounds; and which was followed,
rs every Statesman saw it would be fol-
lowed, by secession.
Had the administration of Lincoln been
peaceful, the Democrats would naturally