The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-10-17
THE PRESS ON THE LATE ELECTION
[From the Chicago Times. I

50 sanguine rs TO expect that the tate
eeuld be carried against the Republi-
cans, and no Republican has doubted
for moment tbo event of a Republl-
can majority of at least twenty Dr.,
twenty-five thousand. The Republi-
can majority last year was 39,009l.
The most that Democrats have dared
10 hope has been thaI this majority
could be reduced to fifteen or twenty
thousand Benold From and intel
igent source at Columbus. We arc as
sured that Tho Democracy hoave elect
Cd their candidate for Governor by
mtJo'ty Of ten thousand, and have
carried both Houses Of the Legislature;
in which latter event, Bonjamine +.
Wado can not be returned to the
United States Senate It the Senator, We
have been told, who should succeed to
the Presidency on the impeachment Of
Mr.. johnson at the beginning Of the
ensuing session Of Congress
OF this event, as woll as Vt tho olcc-
tiUn Of the Dem Jcratic candidate for
. Governor, We think, boxing at all the
returns, there can BE- no particle Of
doubt, and whether his majority be
ten thousand, Or ono thousand. or one
hundred, tho result is sublime tri-
umph. Tho propose amendment to
the State constitution, providing for
unqualified negro suffrage, is bcatcn
mdefnitoly-say by forty or fifty
thousand.
Iowa, too, has done nobly, the bur-
den ofall tho roturns bong heavy
Democratic gains; and so has Indiana
where only two townships elections
were hold, and 30 of all others quar-
ters in occurrence of minor contests.
The revolution his moved with the
force Of whlrlwrnd, sweeping nway
Black Republicans Radicaism us cob
webs are swept by the storm.
What Will the Randlcal rump Con-
grcss do in the face of these results?
1t meets IN the beginning OF Novem--
Der, having resolved to anticipate the
usual period Of meeting, that it might
tho better restrain Mr.. Johnson 1t
meets at Just about the date Of the
New York election, when another tor.
rent Of public indignation will be- pour
cd down upon il. What will it do!
Will il go on in the execution Of Itr
condemned and cXocrated policy OF
Southern reconstruction win it in
sic, upon forcing negro supremacy up
on the South, after Ohio, heretofore
the heaviest Republican State in the
North, has declined to lot the negro
vote nt all?
Will it persist IN administering TO
Virginia ana Alabama and Mississippi
allspathic doses Of that which Ohio re-
fuses to take in tho most Infnitosimal
eomeopathic doses ? win it pcrsoyore
IN ditranchising Southern white men
after Ohio has voted down that Same
proposition as tu certain Other own
white men, by a majority Of tens Of
thousands? Will Il continue to eX-
eludo the South from the Union, when
the great popular Northern voice 50
loudly invites her to return to the
Unlon2 Will It continue to maintain
its military salraps in the South, whom
the Northern domand is 40 vehement
that Republican government shall be
ro-ostabllshed there2 Will it, IN
short, DEFY the popular will with refer,
encc to this whole question ofSouthern
reconstruction, as expressed in Con.
nocticut, aud California, and Penn
sylvania, and Ohio, and every where
olsc?,
But it is not alono IN respect tC
southern reconstruction that tho Rad
dical. party leaders are so terribly con
domned. This condemnation relates
arso to the abomnable extravaganza o
Congressionalappropriations,b bywnicl
the pnblic debt is being swollen in
definitely: and to the abomlnablo COR
ruption and fraud and theft that pcr-
vado .ho public service, by which th'
public revenues ara immensely roduc
cd and the public taxes as lmmeseI,
increased: and to the abomnable de
bauchment of tho public morals AM
the bunting Of the public CONSCIENCE
as consequences Of Official e&travaganc
aod corrn ntinn and frand and theft