The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-26

his success, this Is perhaps the most
significant victory upon the list. Even
although the official count should show
that Mr. Walker has been defeated
| (which we do not believe IS possible
still the destruction of the majority by
which the Radicals have heretofore car
ried the district will be of itself a sub
stantial triumph and will greatly en-
courage those who are struggling for
the right.
Congressman in the Third Distrtct,
although no returns from that region
have yet been received. We had adj
vices from that District shortly before
the election which leave us no doubt
that Moore has been elected over
Witcher, his Radical competitor.
This feat of the Registers in having
the returns from the Sd District before
the election Is the most marvellous thing
OF the kind on record. Bot the returns
received since the election are of a very
different character from those received
by the Register before. All the counties
in that district heard from, Mason, Put
nam, Kanawha, Roane, Jackson and
Braxton give Republican majorities.
and show a Republican gain of three
members OF the House of Delegates.
We presume therefore the Register
does not "feelp so . certain that
the Democrats have gained Con-
gresham in the Sd district as it
did before the election. Nor is it
quite so ''probabIe'' this morning, since
near all the First District has been
heard from and DnEal's majority is
known to be 700 or 800, "that Mr.. Wal
ker is elected TO Congress from the
First District by 100 to $50 majority."
We quite agree that ''this is perhaps the
most significant victory upon the
list" II shows that our people are
not SO far lost to the impulses of
self-respect and patriotism as to be will
ling to honor with their confidence such
q scallawag as the editor of the Register
above such pure and upFight gentle.
man and gallant soldier as Gen. Duval.
1t shows, too, that the dangerous, dis
honest and unpatriotic theories of which
Gen. Duval's opponent was the visible
head and representative, have no abb
ding place in this Congressional dis
trict.
The "strong hopes" which the Register
even as late as Saturday
that the Democracy had won
a majority OF the House of Delegates,
are, we fear, already blasted. A ma
jority would be %. About all we can
allow them, counting against ourselves
in every doubtful county not heard |
from, is 15. The Democrats had 2 in the |
last Senate. The may have in the |
next. That would require them to
have q in the House to have a msjori-
on joint ballot. We fear, there
fore, that the election of Democratic |
Senator is not ensured," and that
those who are waiting for the Senator's |
shoes will be disappointed.
One of the most noteworthy things
in the article above is the admission OF
Democratic defeat In Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana. We find reference
to the Democratic characterization con-
sequent upon the Democratic. defeat in
the great States of Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Illdiana.'s That will be news for
the readers of the RegiSte1,an very bad
news too for them to near just on the
eve of the November election. They
have been fighting under the belief that
their friends had won victories in those
States and now for The first time they
are told those victories were defeats.
Is this some green hand at the forge, or
is the Register man, smarting under be-
trayal and disappointment, about to
show himself Mephistopheles and
play the devil with his party general
ly2