New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-26
THE WEEKLY REPUBLICAN
THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS.

We produce from the New York Herald
Of the nineteenth instant, the following i'm
portant political article.
1t is universally conceded that the Herald
is sagacious in its political foresight and
fortunate in its early espousal Of vic
torious cause.
The logic of this article is convincing:
THE COMING OCTOBER ELEcTIONs-PRNN-
sYLvANIA WILL SETTLE THE QUESTION
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa will
hold their State elections this year on the
thirteenth OF October, embracing their dele
cations to the next, or Forty-frst, Congress.
The results of the September elections in
Vermont and Maine have sufficiently in
Dictated the drift of the popular tide to
Justify the Republicans 10 their expecta-
lions of decisive victory in November
under the banner Of Grant and Colfax but
the Democratic organs and leaders still
hold out the hope to their party that these
coming October elections will show that
in the Central States and in the great West
the political reaction therein of 1867 is still
progressing. They do not appear to ex-
pect much from Ohio; but they are making
desperate Sight of it in Indiana, and are
preparing to contest every inch Of ground
from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, and in
every corner OF Pennsylvania.
From the recent local elections in the
distant Territories of Colorado and New
Mexico, we think it is apparent that the
same general causes which have swelled the
usual Republican majorities in YER
mont and Maine are operating over
the whole country. In other words, we
think it apparent that the Democrats,
in making their battle of 1868 sub
stantally their battle Of 1864, will suffer
under Seymour the defeat of Mcclellan.
The Pennsylvania October election will
settle the question. How will Pennsylvania
got The Republicans expect to carry the
State by from twenty to twenty-five thou
sand majority. The Democrats hope 10
carry ID, and that is all. They build their
expectations on the October elections Of
800. 1862 and 1867. But in the election
of 1856 The opposition elements were di-
yided into two factions or parties, the Re
publican party, under Fremont and the
American party, under Fillmore, while State
pride strengthened the Democrats under Bu-
hhanan. Yet, cold aud distrusttul as was
the fusion of the Fremont aud Fillmore
factions in October, it came within some
two thousand votes of holding the State.
The real strength Of the leading Repub-
lican idea, no further extensions OF
slavery" was fully developed only with the
dissolution and Dispersion Of the disturbing
American or Know Nothing party Grow
ing up like Jonahs gourd in the course of
Mnight, and fading like it under the heat
Of the morning sun. that Know Nothing
faction. il it did nothing else as third
Marty, prevented in 1856 that popular judg-
1nent Of the North which in 1860 decreed
that there should be mo further extensions
Of slavery"
From that point, which marked the dis
ruption and dissolution of the old pro-
slavery Democratic party, we date new
political era. Tne Northern elections be-
hind the year 1860 Of the old pro-slayery
period viii hardly, therefore, apply to the
present order OF things. Certainly the
Pennsylvania October election Of 1856, With
Buchanan and three parties in the field, is
ont Of the question. But in the midst Of
the war, ID 1869, the Democracy carried
the State bythree thousand majority. There
is not much comfort, however, in that
when we remember that the Demo
cratic war cry OF that year, Seymour
and all, was "a more vigorous prosecution
0fthe war, and that upon this Issue, Oh a
short vots. the elections of 1852 in Penn
eylyania end New York went by default
Theirs remains the Pennsylvania October
election OF 1867, in which the Democrats
were enccessinl by some nine hundred ma
5oFsiy. after having been beaten the yeal
before BY seventeen thousand majority.
Let Us look into this Here are the
figures Of the general result Of the October
elections Of 1866 and 1867 ID Pennsylvania
Republican vote for Governor s07, ~
Democratic vote. 290,09i
Total vote cast .....-5......... 597, s7I
Republican majority ~ $500. 17,lTl
1861 Republican vote Supreme
judge. 26b, 81
Democratic VOTE. ,as..,s..-',. 267,14l
$780,
Total vote cast. b34 81
Democratic majority. ,,....ss.-'..-.-- 81
Hers. Il Will be remarked, looking sin
tE1e 4 liz iiepubIiean mzjority in one yea
66d Or 0emocFAfic najority ID the othel
na deeided noIitlcist reaction; but We Sc
thaf Is .isdlass little or nothing when "
forn - re- aFRragste vote. $3.50
xoisi vote y lags 2. 1850 s97 81
Deacieney ..ag..,9..,.,..'s q. 50
on this deaeieneg he aaures fnrthe
aion "a round unm9trS 1.af forty thoul
and was nepablia44 apt ,Rentg-tWo thous
1nd psmoeratic. ieallEf Republics
..sA .1G.Its - maioFitg on this reserved vot
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rrk II wills lh1a ApreaF lhAA N1lel
1klre b change II the opinions 81 SON
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Al 1855 "a fksaF q 6rymour and aEalsl
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