The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-28

" AhtiAuen 10 Cie beuOcfatic nominee for the
Governorship and the ablest speakers are in
the field. Ruthford B. HAYES. late Renre-
sentative from the Second district has re-
signed his seat in Congress TO run as the radi-
cal candidate for Governor. The Tr;5,,pc
August 10, says that this election Is t,verv |
hkely 10 prove close one" II saws that the |
radicals carried the State Handsomely last |
October, "but that was when Tho RaIoi ,oas
sacre IN New Orleans and President Johnson,s |
harangues, while swinging round the circle |
enapleu US 10 carry any State whose people can |
generally read" Indeed Then that radical
riot, winch the Tribune calls ''Rebel massacre
IN new Orleans," '0dS as we have so often
cnargeu, only powder to secure radical vic
torres at the North; and the absence of for
eign and factitious issues, with the whole
floods of talsehoods founded thereon, is likely
to make the election in Ohio ga very close
one, and the radical chances doubtful. The
platform OF the radical party in that State is
full of fossils and ancient aphorisms about the
constitutional amendment abOlishing slavery
and similar topics, and it contains a resolution
pledgng the support of the Ohio radicals to
Sheridan and the other military commanders
in the South, which, considering recent events,
and what may happen tomorrow, is a fra
grantly fresh thing to carry into an election
next October. But there is a live issue; at
last radicalism plants itself on ''the broad
platform of manhood suffrage" and the Iri-
we have already quoted, says, 1--WE presume
this righteous step forward will cost the Re-
publicans of Ohio several thousands of votes"
In Pennsylvania the struggle is between
George Sharswood, Democrat and Henry w.
Williams, radical, for the highest seat on the
Supreme Court bench. The Democrats make
a political issue on the extravaganza and cor
ruption of the Legislature and the radical
State authorities and Thaddeus Stevens, ad-
mitting the corruptions of his party, tries to
break the anticipated fall by declaring that
the State is in danger through the "apathy"
of the radicals. The radical candidate is
standing on a platform which unblushingly
proposes ''to place the Supreme Court in har-
mOny with the political opinions of the majo-
rity of the people," thus preparing the State,
in the event of his success, for judicial officer
like Hunnicutt in Virginia. Under the cir
cumstances, a reasonable degree of what Ste
vens calls "apathy" might be expected.
In addition to the positive political and
moral strength which the Democracy can
bring to bear in these three States this fall,
radicalism has to contend with the reaction
which is everywhere manifest in the North;
and besides the dissensions in their party, the
stock in trade of the radicals is too stale
! for the present market. The Chicago Times
well says:-
The Niger is no longer an exciting topic.
The radicals themselves fear that they have
given him an undue elevation. The subj ect of the
fearful wickeuneSS OF Rebels is becoming stale.
The can't so prevalent for the last ten years,
comparing "the interests of God and human
iIy," is no longer interesting The people are
beginning to turn their attention to high taxes,
to Tariff eXactions to official corruption, 10 a
revival OF trade with the South. and generally
to the material interests of the country"
Precisely and it remains to be seen how
far this reaction indicates a return to reaso L
and common sense in the States which hol |
elections this fall.