The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-09-17
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DEMOCRACY VICTORIOUS!
Immense Republican Losses!
Majority Reduced 10000!
Radical Majority i'm 1866,
27,6S7; in lS6S, Only
1900.
Great and Unexpected DEM
ocratic Gains.
The Jacobins Virtually De-
feated.
4 Democratic Gain Sufficient 10 En-
sure Success in October and
NoYemher
The Jacobins Virtually De
feated.
q Democratic Gain Sufficient TO En-.
sure success in October and
November.
Democratic Gains, l4,676
Radical Gains, 1850.

AS we have already stated, the result
in Maine on Monday cannot be properly
regarded as any indication of the result
of the forthcoming elections, except sc
far as it shows an unexpected Demo.
cratic gain. Even under ordinary cir.
cumstances it has never been thus re.
garded, for events in past years have
demonstrated that none of the great
States have ever followed Maine. Penn.
sylvania, Ohio and Indiana, which hold
their State elections in October, have
almost invariably given their MAORI.
ties adversely to Maine in her Septem.
ber election. This was particularly re.
markable in tho election of 1862,
when Vermont and Maine led of
with tremendous Republican majorities;
but, in the following October, Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio and Indiana, which had
previously gone by rousing Republican
maiorities, turned over to the Demo
Gratis, and astonished the country by
Democratic majorities. In Pennsylvania
the Lincoln majority of sixty thousand
was converted into four thousand DEM
ocratic majority. In Ohio, Lincoln's
twenty thousand majority was changed
to six thousand majority for the Demo
Gratis; and in Indiana Lincoln's twenty
four thousand majority was overcome,
and ten thousand for the Democrats
was obtained.
At this time, the difficulties in these
October elections are much less than in
1862, when Vermont and Maine went
largely Republican. In the election in
Pennsylvania last year there was q
Democratic majority of 922, while the
year before the Republicans had a ma
jority of 17,l73. In Ohio, the Republi-
can majority in 1867 was only 2953,
while in 1866 it was 1896. The last
general election in Indiana was in 1866,
when the Republicans had majority
of ld,202. 1t will thus be seen, that
even if the Radicals had held their own
in Maino this year, our friends would
have had less to do in order TO carry
the October elections than in 1862, when
they triumphed so nobly.
But this year Maine has failed utterly
and dismally 10 sustain her Republican
majority. The only criterion we have
with which to make comparison, is
the election of 1866, when the majority
for Chamberlain (RepuLiiean) over Pills
bury (Democrat) was 27,G ,G57.
This year the same candidates for
Governor were running as in 1866, and
every vote short of Chamberlain ma
jority obtained then, 1861, must be
accounted an actual loss to the Repub-
licans. Our dispatches show that they
have failed to come up to this figure by
fully ten thousand, thus exhibiting a
Republican loss of more than ono-third
of their latest majority.
On the other hand, the Democrats
have gained largely. The retHrns will
show that they have gained what the
Republicans have lost. This is sub
stantial Democratic victory. If similar
gains are made i'll the States that are to
vote in October, they will give over
whelmng Democratic majorities, and
the election of Seymour and Blair in
November will be completely assured.
We congratulate our friends upon the
result. Notwithstanding the tremen-
dous efforts of the Jacobins to sustain
themselves in Maine, Notwithstanding
the vast sums of money poured into the
State for this purpose, Notwithstanding
the industry and unscrupulous energy
of vast army of Radical State and
Federal office-holders, the Jaoobins
have lost more than one third of their
majority, and the Democracy have won
a glorious triumph.