Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-10-29
POLITICAL SUMMARY.

General Grant has received at least
dozen Republican nominations for the Prcsi-
idency since Pennsylvania and Ohio event
back" on the Radicals. 1t is not long since
these gentlemen were swearing that they
would never support a man who was not
known to be thoroughly imbued with the
strongest Of Radical convictions and DOW We
see them elamoring for = man who has no
convictions at all. Greeley is ont squareIy
against him. and in favor OfnOminating Chase,
but his influence seems to be on the wane-
The Times says the 'latc elections will COM
pei the Republican party to make Grant their
Presidential candidate" They dure not"
says Raymond, nominate anybody else''-
All right. Let the halEand. half Radicals
make Grant their candidate, and the Greeley
and Phillips men put up Chase. The more
the mcrricr.
The total vote in Pennsylvania this year
is $4,000, of which Judge Sharswood has
majority of ,202. The total vote last year
was $3.50, of which Geary CRad.) had a
majority of HIS. The Radical loss since
last year is ~, All; Democratic loss, % go.
Some of the defeated Radicals in Philadel,
phia have commenced contest in the courts
with the Democrats who received certificates
of election. They charge frauds on the Dem
ocracy-the old game.
The Radicals inaugurated the Fail CAM
paISn IN New York with mass meeting at
Cooper Institute last Wednesday evening"
Or the score OF speakers advertised to appear,
only three or four were to be seen on the
platform. These made desperate efforts to
arouse the tagging spirits of their followers
but without much success. Ohio and Penn
sylvania hung over the crowd like two wet
blankets, and it was almost impossible to get
up any enthusiasm.
The Reverend and sanity Hunnicutt
made speech in Richmond one day last
week, in which he went in for coD,DeNing
white children to 90 to school With the mo.
lasses cOlOred picanninies. for DISTINGUISHING
every editor who does not write as he does.
ahd every preacher who does not preach
Radical gospel, and for enfranchising all who
will promise to vote the Republican ticket.
AT the same meeting an adopted citizen
named MUrrissy announced himself in favor
of DISTINGUISHING every foreigner who fought
for the South in the late war. The meeting
consisted OF about twenty-five hundred me-
grOes and nine white men. This is the par
ty that will govern ''the mother of States
and statesmen" if military reconstruction sue
ceeds. Heaven help Virginia if che ever falls
into the clutches of such fends incarnate as
the Rev HuDDicutt!
The district that sent Gen. Schenck to
Congress. with Radical majority of OCT
at his back, has gone Democratic this year
by majority of $50, a change of ] .j97
votes. Judge Shellabarger, another Radical,
was elected in the adjoining district by ma.
jority of 2,l7l, but this is DOW cut down TO
81, Radical loss of 2OSO. 'Jim Ashley y
the great lmpeacher, was elected in the Tenth
district, by majority of 1917, but the De-
mocrats have since gained geo votes rbcrc
bringing the Radical majority down 10 257
In the face Of this revulsiOn against them in
their own districts, We wonder if these agita-
tors will be as revolutionary in the next ses-
sion of Congress as they were in the. last.