The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-10-17
The October Elections.

any absurd display of eagles and roosters, o
startling head lines, we can say in all sincerit
that while the democracy have not actual,
triumphed at the elections on Tuesday in tn
great states of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indi
ana, they have done so nobly and made sucl
enormous gains on the enemy, that we canno
withhold hearty cheer, although the major
tiles are not rs much in our favor as W.
| wished them to be.
PENNSYLVANIA has probably gone radica
by small majority, although many oversan
guine democrats still hope the figures at tn,
final footing up, as on several former occasions
will be in favor of the democrats. At first tn,
radicals claimed the state by 10000 Their
they dropped to 10000, then to 5000, and
yesterday to 5000. The latest Pittsburg DIES
patch says ''the radical majority is still will
ting away, and will not reach 5OOO.' We
have known the opposition to claim the state
for week by 5000, ana finally come out 1000
behind. While, however, the state ticket
may thus be lost by very small majority, the
democrats have gained four congressman, and
claim a clear majority on the congressional
| vote.
Om0.-The republicans, after claiming the
state for two days by from $4,000 to &c, 900.
are now quite willing to take 5000, while the
democrats concede them less than 5000 major
ity 1t is certain that the democrats have
gained three congressman, defeating Ashley
the scoundrel, Bingham the gorgeous" and
Deano the scamp, while they stand chance
OF gaining two more.
INDIANA still hangs in dOubt-both parties
claiming the election of their governor by not
over 700 majority. The Democrats claim the
Legislature, and six of the fourteen congress
men.
NEBRASKA, as usual, gives a smal republi-
can majority-clalmed by the radicals to be
5000, but not believed in reality to exceed
800.
Such is, in general terms, the result of the
October elections in the states named. 1t is
admitted that without carrying at least two
of the great states of OHIO, Indiana and
Pennsylvania, Seymour cannot be elected
Shall we, therefore, give up the contest as
hopeless
We say--and we believe the democracy un-
animously say-No! a thousand times No !
Even if fighting against hope, no honest, sim
cere democrat should hesitate to stand to his
colors to the last A defeat at this cleo
ton at the worst would be but a postpone
ment Of the victory which is as surely as the
sun rises yet to perch upon our banners. But
it is not fight against hope. a majority of
5000 in the great state of Pennsylvania is a
mere Jagatetle-in comparison less then in
an election in Ottawa. The merest accident -
turn of the hand may reverse that decision
And scarcely less trifing is a majority of 5000
in state like Ohio; while in Indiana the ma
ority is already in our favor. A letter from
distinguished politician in Ohio gives us
special reasons not to despair of triumph in
view of such a state Of figures in those states
In Ohio alone, he says $1,000 Jews voted for
the radical congressman, while not one of
them will vote for Grant. The number of
such Jews is certainly no less in Pennsylvania,
while there are enough in Indiana decidedly
to change the October figures.
Here in itselfls a circumstance abundantly
sufficient to cause every democrat to labor on
with the fullest confidence As to Illinois, no
candid republican ever doubted that, if we
carried Indiana, we should carry Illinois, Can
there be doubt Of a Democratic triumph in
November in Indiana?
Let every Democrat, then. put his shoulder
to the wheel. Give three weeks earnest, Wig
orous, resolute labor to the service of the great
cause of popular rights, and the sun of No
vember will yet shine on land redeemed
from oppression and misrule.