Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-10-22


| confessed, that The partisans of Seymour
and Blair must triumph in the State
! elections held yesterday or abandon al
| hopes OF. success. Every table they Fave
yeI made Of the Pr.tiabie vote for nexi
! L. esidenI by States claimed Pennsyi
I vania, Indiana, and y ebraska rs certain
! ~ and OHIO as probably, for seymour
| The most ingenious among them coulC
nor nI;glle up Il list of States expected tt
vote iOr Seymour sufficient tO elect him,
! without Including altor most of those
/ above named. They had thus advertised
their followers that they must carry tilose
| States in October or confess theniselve:
already beaten in the November strug.
gle.
In Pennsylvania, the desperation o
| their fortunes impelled them TO super
human efforts. They fabricated bOgu:
Naturalization certificates by the ream
| they imported roughs and repeaters in
regiments; they poured out their money
without srintand or, ,anized fraud enough
TO I'LL at least twenty OF the largest State
| Prisons. Determined to win at all haz-
ards, they spared no effort and left nc
trick untried whereby they could hope
TO ialsify the Judgment of, the Great Cen
trai States. That they cheated US more
than Ten Thousand votes in Philadel-
phia and its neighborhood alone, we
have no shadow of doubt.
But they cheated in vain. Their Judi
cial null,fication of the Registry act,
their Manufacture of spurious Naturali-
Zation papers by the ream, their irppor-
tation of black1egs and bullies, their
conspiracies and rascalities, have all
lvailed them nothing. A magnificent
day and desperate struggle brought out
by far the largest vote ever polled in the
State, with result that shows her for
Grant beyond contingency. His ma
jority may be figured down to ten thou
sand now, butitwill be more than twenty
thousand in November We have pro-
badly two-thirds of the Representatives
in Congress, with both branches of the
Legislature, insuring Republican o..
S. Senator for six years ensuing, ia place
of Charles Il. Buckalew, Dem. Nouly
done, gallant old Keystone ai J
Ohio we have at no time doubted,
though certain injudiciOus nominations
exposed us to mortifying local disasters.
Plfe Legislature (holding over from last
yearf is Democratic in either branch. as
it would not begin to- be If chosen this
wear: and Allen O.. Thurman will mis-
represent the State in MIR. sWade's seat
for;six years from next March but she
has now gone Republican by at least
twenty Thousand majority, eiectinga a
large majority Cf Republicanst to the next
House. (The Republicans chose Gen..
} it.lBg Hayes her Governor last year by
2. 9S3 majority. q We presume no more
need he said as to her vote for President
This year. Grant will walk over the
course. :" 'r
Indiana has been rendered doubtful
by enormous naturalizations and by
heavy importations from Kentdcky.-
Despite the sahguine advices of our cor
RESPONDENTS. we apprehended q disas-
trous voJe along her Kentucky border,
which threatened to swamp our Stale
ticket. though we confidently expected
TO carry the Legislature (giving us.
s;epasor il. plaieef OF Thomas A. Hen
bricks. DEM and majority of the
REPRESENTATIVES, fdn. Congress. Vague
,l,lvites tilas far q A n. Indicate Re
olblitah triumph throughout, though
we pres,ime by a small aggregate ma
,ority. aif.<E -is g. -Goi -
sro,, f,,a Nc,r York sun of Wednesday. 1nde-
- - .l.I N pendent.) i. .t ~, 'll5is
Tue result practically settles the Pres
iiential elec ion i'll favor o. Gen. Gra'it
No one with the facis before nun, whose
opinion is of the slightest weight, can
entertain doubt Oh the subject Ile
special battle ground OF the two parties
was Pennsylvania The contest was
fought with unprecedented vigor by both
loaey was freely lavlsned the aoiest
sheakers were in the field the State was
hewn with campaign documents; all
The appliances Known 10 PoiitlclSu5 were
pat into requisiti0n; and the fighting
nj lr..lrr
scrats contest ed the State win despera-
..on, for It's loss vas stheirinevitable over
throw throughout the country On the |
plher hand, The Republicans felt thai
hey could elect Grant without 1t, but
.hey dreaded the effect of q defeat In
October upon the doubtful states In
and so they waged the battle |
with determined energy-and the result |
; before u.s. a. ~
With these great central States now I
throwing heavy maJoritles against them,
he Democracy will doubtless cOntenQ (
for a national victory Dutr 1or I
ocal apd personal reasons, the States Oh
New Jersey, Connecticut, ana especially
New YORK, Will De Gontesteu WIN n
mercy OF despair. II view oI .ne iao'
hat Ir. Henuietoi, JeugS u. ase, oenp
or HendrickS. anu Zen, hancocA z"gle
I.-I-r N.N LW Nh
ct aside at the July C9nvehNon 70 inaks i
oom Tor an eminent DeMocras nauins
rom this immediate locality, = ms ,s. SUP
,erterS fail to give MN the Voses ~ snose
states, and particularly DIS NATIVE Staie,
hey must feel tnat tnsy are Iot lohiy +
eaten, but dishonoreo anu uisSraceu
efore their brethren throughout Inc
Jnion.. a art .--. -
For these reasons we lcoK 10 see one
f the'~mOst' excited contests IN these
hree States, and especlallyin New YORK,
hat have ever marked their Annals X
,ut, with the odds so heavily against j
he Democracy, we believe they Will all
rift with the tide, leaving to Governor
eymaur not. one of the old free states,
nd only Delaware ana Maryiano tilis
lue OF d tne "A Anesh@ M sshaainina H S;x or seven
tates out of the entire thirty-four that
'ill vote IN TINS freslaentlai eiecsion 4
the New York Herald OF W eoneSQay kinu. -