The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-06-04

the election held there on Monday. the
Democratic majority reached 1000. Not
only was q Democratic Congressman
elected, but nearly every other officer
chosen, as appears by our kilograms,
was of the same stamp. Every county
save one has been redeemed from Rad
icalism, and the State is sure. for the
Democratic nominees in November.
The telegraph, after recountiug the
glorious results, grimly tells us that
"thc nomination of GRANTaad COLFAx
excited much enthusiasm" A more
CHASTITY joke could hardly be imagined.
A hangman would scarcely surpass it,
were he to congratulate his victims
corpse upon the excitement produced
by the execution. The enthusiasm"
idea has received u cruel caricature.
Somebody ought to send the San Fran
cisco news agent tract ar something,
or else have him indicted for barbarity
TO dumb animals.
1t is now clear that GRANT and COL
FAX can't stop the reaction, any more
than q pair of bladders could stop
crerasse. The floods are let loose and
these light air vessels cannot prevail
against them. The Pacific coast an
swers back the rallying cry of the At
lantic shore. Both oceans are sending
the evidences of political revolution
across the continent. The rebellion is
not q living issue. The Republican
party is chained to corpse. GRANT
caunot relieve it from the body of this
dea h. He is part of the past, and
can only be seen by looking backward.
The ration, sick of cloaked corrup-
tion and masked villainy, the results of
recent years, looks forward for relief
and deliverer. The party and the men
that shall be equal to coming events
and responsibilities can well afford to
let loyalty" in its venerable stupidity.
Chew on wisdom past
And totter on in blunders TO the last.
The party that stands on living
issaes, catching the popular idea
with proper utterances on present
questions, will win in the approach
ing contest, unless every indication be
false. II
The Washington city election is an
other forcible outgiving from public
opinion. 1t has resulted in a virtual
Democratic triumph, and in clear
gain of two thousand votes in II year,
out of a poll of eighteen thou
sand 1t occurred in city which
the Congress of the United States long
ago determined to make Radical city.
To this end it enfranchised black men by
thousands. 1t abolished all distinc-
tions between the races, that had been
drawn by previous enactment. 1t dis
regardedthe almost unanimous protest
OF the white people of the place. IL
over-rode the authority of the President,
interposed IS shicla the nations Capt.
ital from the deep disgrace of negro
government. 1t did all that could be
devised to secure success in the work of
Authorization.
With the aid afforded by Congress
and with the moral influences of the
| Chicago ticket, it was believed that If
the Radicals could triumph anywhere,
they could triumph gioriously in
Washington. The result shows a
fatal error in the calculation. The
white people of the city repu-
diate Radicalism, GRANT and the negro,
in spite of the extraordinary appliances
used to force different verdict. The
only qaalified voters of Washington pro.
claim their adherence to the doctrine
that this is a white mans Government,
formed by white men, to be ruled by
white men forever. In thus declaring,
the nations Capital represents the
nations opinion. GRANT can no more
carry through the obnoxious doctrines
of Radicalism at the coming Presiden-
tial election than the influence of his
name could make Radicalism win in
Washington on Monday. Such re-
Dukes coming so suddenly upon the
heels of his nomination, are conclusive as
to his weakness. A feebler candidate
upon living issues was never presented
to the American people, and if the DEM
ocrats are true to themselves, the re
suit in November will so demonstrate.