Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-10-26
RADICAL nuPLIcITY.

In leader, c0fIsOllng itself over the Iat
Radical disaster in Ohio and Pennsylvania, th
: Virginia City Eat81n'ise saysi
Although the proposal to strike the word " white
from the Constitution was rejected by forty thousan
majority, Republican Governor, standing upon u
latforan of impartial suffrage, elected in Ohio
and in Pennsylvania the Republican party thol
ollghlv committed to the issue during the
vass in that State
Agreeably to this view, while Ohio has vote,
against Negro Suffrage by forty thousand ma
jority, and that, too, upon an express, plain
absolute submittal of the naked question, still
the Radicals insist that the election of thei
candidate for Governor by a majority of only
two or three thousand will carry Negro Stuff
rage with it, because he stood upon the Negro
Suffrage platform. In plain terms, notwith
standing the people of Ohio expressly voted
against Negro Suffrage by forty thousand more
votes than were cast for it, Negro Suffrage
will be forced upon them because they elected
Governor who favors that measure. The
outrage upon the rights of the people and the
infamy of the Radical leaders appears all the
greater when we take into consideration the
fact that, just before the election, to save their
State ticket from-overwhelming defeat because
of the very Objectionable Negro Suffrage plank
in the platform, the managers issued and in
dustriously circulated among the disaffected, a
secret circular in which Negro Suffrage was
declared to be withdrawn from the platform ;
and it was, doubtless, this artifce which finally
secured the small majority which the Radical
Governor obtained. But in the face of all this,
now that they have elected their Governor, the
leading Radicals assert most shamelessly and
falsely, that his election carried Negro Suffrage
with it,
There is another bad feature to the view
given above frcm the Enterprise. The Radi-
Gals say the peoples wishes must be obeyed by
those whom they choose to represent them.
But this rule will be ruthlessly violated by Gov.
Hayes, or the Ohio Radicals, or by Congress,
if either attempt to fasten Negro Suffrage up
on Ohio after the late most emphatic repudia-
ton Of that Radical reform measure by the
forty thousand majority voters of that State.
1t will be fully acting out the Radical practice,
however, if the outrage shall be perpetrated.
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THE SERIOUS FARCE.-The late elections
n the South demonstrate the criminal absurd
ty of the Registration scheme under the Re
construction Act. Only the negroes and the
ew ''loyal" Whites-mostly from the North,
who are South for Office or plunder-ofer to
-Ote, while the actual residents of the country I
lobly disdain to shame themselves by doing So
Is an Illustration of the character of the vote,
We quote the following from the Mobile Id
ertiser of Oct. 9Th, which gives the vote in
hat city and county, and the class of voters.
The sample will answer for the whole South
generally. Here it is:
The total vote cast by both city and county
vas 1857 Out of this number there were
9ss than 100 whites over 4, 457 were blacks
he total white vote in city and county was
8. Every white who voted, voted for the
Convention. Il