Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-10-19
THE EASTERN ELECTIONS.


the continent, and particularly in the returns
from Ohio and Pennsylvania. There are two,
senarate and distinct sets of dispatches sent to
this eoast-one being collated and transmitted
by the regular agents and reporters of the Pa-
cifc Associated Press, consisting of the Vir-
ginia City. Enterprise, in Nevada, the Sacra-
mento Union, the San Francisco Alta and the
San Francisco BalEetia, in California From
this latter set the two Portland dailies are sup
plied. from the printed columns OF the latter
two papers and the other set are transmitted
70 the San Francisco Times. The dispatches
to this last named paper are not 50 fun, COM
nreheusive. fresh, or well collated, as those
which are sent to the Associated Press. 1t is
from the Times reports the Salt Lake Vedette
obtains its intelligence, and we frequently find
in the dispatches to the Associated Press OF
one day the same items of news, in substance,
which do not appear in the Times and Vedette
until the next day. Thus, the dispatches we
get by the Tedette are not infrequently day
older than we get them by the Nevada, Cali
fornia or Oregon papers
In the case before us, there is reason to be-
Eeye that the reports of the election have been
either purposely or awkwardly muddled. The
dispatches in the Tedette of Oct. 18th report
the triumph of the whole Democratic State
ticket in Ohio by 10000 majority, and Dem
Ocratic triumph in Pennsylvania OF from 5,OO0
to 10000. These dispatches are under date OF
"Chicago. Oct 10th' In the same issue ap.
pears other dispatches, bearing date OF Oct.
9th, sent from Chicago, Cincinnati New York
and PhiIadelphia-each and all indicating the
same fact and but one telegram, from Cleve-
land, Ohio, Oct 9th, which says that while The
Leader of that city comedies the election OF
the Democratic candidate for Governor,
"Columbus Journal claims the election" OF
the Radical candidate, and Radical majority
in the House, but comedies" Democratic
majority of one in the Senate. But In none OF
the dispatches of the Vedette of the 18th is
there any doubt expressed by the triumph of
the Democracy in Pennsylvania.
Now, in the Vedette of the 18th instant, q
single dispatch appears, dated Columbus, Oct.
10TH which does not state, but merely intl-
mates, that the Radical candidate is elected by
about 1000 majority, and the Democrats have
small majority in the Legislature. Another
single dispatch in the same issue, dated at
Philadelphia, Oct. 10th, says that the Radical
Central Committee figure up Radical ma
jority of 1000 in that State. Not another
word appears to bear up or corroborate these
two single dispatches, which SO materially diff
fer from the several dispatches of the day be-
fore, sent from chief telegraphing points, and
from those from Chicago, the principal West
ern station, of the very same date-Oct. 10th
But we have in confederation of the dispatches
in the Tedette of the 18th, those which appear
in the Virginia City Enterprise of the same
day, dated Chicago Oct 10th; and which are
substantially the same as the Vedette's dis
patches, wherein Chic and Pennsylvania are
i" conceded'' to the Democrats by handsome
majorities.
We argue from these facts, therefore, that
the dispatches sent from Chicago on Oct 10th
which report Democratic victories in Ohio
and Pennsylvania, are correct, in the main
We submit that later and more correct intelli
gence is likely to be transmitted from Chicago
the chief Western telegraphic station, thar
from Columbus, Ohio, which is not regular
telegraphic station, when both reports come oil
the same day from the two places. And we
submit further that the several quite positive
reports concerning the Pennsylvania election
in which local majorities are clearly stated
are more worthy of belief than the mere re
port of the Figuring up of the Radical Cen
trail Committee The reports of the Demo
cratic victories are corroborated, by dispatche
of as late date, and from chief stations, while
the reports of the supposed Radical triumph
are not backed up; and, in the case of Ohio
the report comes from ccmparatiyely obscure
telegraph station. We ought to add, here
that the Sacramento Union, which receive
the general dispatches simultaneously with tn
Virginia City Enterprise, contains no telegram
of any kind in it's issue of the 18th, but we &C
count for the appearance of the kilograms il
the Enterprise of that date and their non-ap
pearance in the Union very easily. The dis
patches are particularly headed Especial t
the Enterprise" and very likely the Union di'
3,,o+ oara RI hurry the publication of disDatche