The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-10-16
The Re.uI, and the Future.

| concerning the result OF tne late elec-
tions and the prospect ahead, the Gin
cinnati Enquirer says:
The Radical press insists with great
JUNCTION and zeal, that the election of
Tuesday settled the Presidential ques-
tion that nothing remains but for Gen
eral Grant to walk over the course
almost unsupported. There is nothing
like proving faish by ones works. If
they believe that, of course they will
leave the Presidential question to take
care of itself, confident that the result
will be on their side. If they work
with zeal and energy for Grant-and we
have no doubt they will-they will
afford evidence that their confidence is
mere empty talk, and that they really
have the greatest fears for his success.
There is nothing in Tuesdays cleo
tions that should dampen the ardor of
any Democrat. There is nothing that
should create any feeling akin to de-
spair upon our part. The majorities
against us-if there are any, indeed-in
Pennsylvania are trifling, and are not
to be relied upon for presidential con-
test. Even in Ohio the majority is so
small that it will require bat little
exertiOn in each town to change the re-
suit. This change has been made be-
fore in the history of parties. In 1910
the Democrats succeeded in Pennsylva-
MIA, at the October election, by ma
jority of 1000; and yet, in tbs Novemb er
following, General Harrison carried the
State by majority of 343 votes. A
| State election, with its local candidates
and its lscal causes and influences, is
by no means criterion of Presiden-
tial result. The Democracy have meas
ured trials of strength with the opposi.
ton in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylva-
MIA, and it appears that with a little
extra effort and exertion it can carry
every one of them, at the Presidential
contest, by decisive majorities. What
is majority of 5000 on poll of 600, 900
in Pennsylvania What is ten or
twelve thousand on total poll of half
million in Ohio! Nothing-a mere
bagatelle!
We bcseech our friends not to allow
this result, be what it may, to intermit
for one moment the Democratic organl-
zation, Let that be kept up in all its
vigor. Rather let us redOuble, if any
thing, the number and extent of Demo-
cratic meetings. The smoke of the bat
tie has now cleared away, and we can
see, undisturbed by local influences, the
nature of the Presidential election. Up
on that the Democracy possesses great
strength. 1t bears directly and legiti-
mately upon the condition of affairs in
the South, and settles the question
whether that fair country is to be de-
livered over TO the tender mercies of
the negro or not. it determines wheth-
er the people shall be reduced to a con-
dition little other than slavery by OPP
pressive taxation. Upon both these
questions the Democracy will obtain
hundreds and thousands of votes that
they cannot get when local influences
are brought to bear.
General Grant is not personally popu-
lar. There are the Hebrews, for in
stance, who, to the number of tens of
thousands, voted the Radical local tick
cts, but who will never cast their suf-
frages for the man who banished them
as q religious sect beyond the bounda-
RIGS of his department.
The skies are therefore bright and full
of hope. The Radicals are relying
upon .he timid and faint-hearted to
swell their ranks. They are counting
upon the venal and treacherous to add
now TO their numbers. But we believe
that the glorious Democracy, thank
God, possess little of these disaft'ected
elements. AS an organization it is ever
true to principle, and it never rallies
more strongly than in the hour of APP