Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-08
The ssIIensOn Why'' in New York
from Different Stand points.

The ss1keRsOn why'' in New York
from Different StandpOinIs.
The heavy increased Democratic major
ity in New York city, the Radicals claim
ed, was the result OF fraudulent voting.
The Tribune, the CHASE organ, the day
after the election, effectually repudiates
this charge, and charges that it was move
ment to defeat the Republican party, so as
to force the nomination of General GRANT,
the leaders and the press of that party aid
ing and abetting in the scheme:
With three-fourths of the Republican
journals published in our city, either neu-
tral in the contest, or virtually telling their
readers it would be better for the Repub-
lican cause to have the Republican ticket
beaten this fall, we could hardly expect to
hold our own in the State or city, but de-
fection in both is far greater than could,
with reason, have been anticipated. To let
the election go by default, it was held and
argued by the trimmers and camp-follow-
ers, would crush out what they are pleased
to stigmatize as radicalism, and render in
evitable the nomination of General Grant
for President. Such considerations and
calculations have kept fifty thousand vot-
ers from the polls, and insured the over
whelming defeat of our State ticket.
IT the above be true, it shows how terri
bly, sick of Radicalism the more conserva-
tive portion OF the great Republican party
must be, to prefer sound fiogging to the
further rule of the Radical leaders.
The Times thus accounts for the 81, 900 of
Democratic victory:
The increased Democratic majority in
this city since last year is brought about
by q diminished Republican uote of 5000 and
a gain of only 5000 to the Democratic
vote.
The causes of the result in the city and
in the State, is thus photographed by the
Herald:
1.-The returns of yesterdays election, re-
ceived up to the hour OF publication this
morning, are sufficient to show that the
State has been carried by the Democrats
by majority probably larger than that
obtained by Governor Fenton one year
ago. The Radicals who controlled the Re-
publican nominating Convention chose to
| exclude from their councils the conserva-
tive element of their party and to go be-
fore the people on the issues of negro su-
premacy and a national bank olgarchy !;
and the people of New York, like those of
| California, Ohio and Pennsylvania, lave
repudiated them and rendered an emphatic
verdict against their violent, revolutionary
policy.
"In this city, the great commercial center
of the Union, the majority against Radical
ism amounts to over siXty-one thousand,
although the Radical press and politicians
eXerted their utmost energies to avert such
result. New York, with her large finan-
cial interests, declares against the party of
debt and taxation, and rebukes the attempt
| to place the Southern States of the Union
| under the heel of African barbarism. The
| false cry of fraudulent registration, the free
use of money, the presence and influence
of the Governor of the State. and the efforts
of all the political commissions forced up
on the city by Republican legislation,
were pewerless to prevent this Waterloo
defeat. vote of about twenty-five
thousand, in poll of one hundred and
twelve thousand, is all that the national
banks, the State administration and the
political commissions, including the Police
| and Fire Departments, can muster for the
radical negro supremacy faction in the
great metropolis of New York. With
these figures before the people it will be
useless for the radical organs to raise the
| cry of illegal voting, rum influence, apa-
thy, or anything else, to account for their
terrible overthrow. The fact is now estab-
lished beyond controversy that the citizens
of the loyal States, and especially of the city
of New York, repudiate the financial and
reconstruction policy of Congress, and de-
mand change.
The decision of New York State in this
years contest has been looked for with
anxiety all over the Union. 1t has been
generally admitted that her vote would de-
eide the complexion of the next Presiden-
tial campaign and the loss of the State
by the Republicans will be more effectual
than the fifty thousand radical falling
off in Ohio, in finally disposing of Mr.
Chase and his national bank and negro su-
premacy platform. Ever siuce the war with
the exception of the election of Horatio
Seymour under the temporary reaction
of 1862 the State of New York has
voted steadily on the side of the Republi-
can party, and her verdict now is against
the revolutionary policy of the Radical
Congress, rather than an Endorsement of
the Democracy. 1t is triumph of the
Conservative sentiment of the country,
which last year indorsed the constitu-
tional amendment as a final settlement
of the question of reconstruction, and
now rebukes and repudiates those who,
disregarding the popular voice, reopened
the agitation for the purpose OF forcing ne
gro rule upon the South and securing a
negro balance of power in the National
Government. 1t is final and emphatic
declaration that the people will not suffer
the Government of the United States to
pass into the hands of the violent men
whose principles are embodied in the pol
icy of the present Congress, and that the
Republican party must discard such lead
ers if it hopes to retain the power it has
] epioyed for the past seven years."