The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-08-13
From the N Y. World, Saturday.
THE POLITICAL GNDGRTOW
Radicalisin Going Under.
The Terrible Counter Revolution a p
preaching.


The figures, as they come in from
Kentucky, are mounting up for the
Democratic majority. the last returns,
which we published yesterday, set
down eighty thousand majority for
Stevenson, the Democratic candidate
for Governor, and these returns repre-
sent the country districts from which
they come in slowly, and will probably
show larger gains, according as they
are received. The result of TIE June
election in Oregon was quite as remark
able an evidence that the people are
awake to the mHltJdriOaS mischief 'rhich
the Radical party has drought IN its al
ministration Of the government. We cannot,
therefore, shut our eyes 10 the direction
of these straws which show how the
wind blows. The Republican majority in
Oregon in 1866 was 327; the Democratic
majority for member of Congress (the
solitary one who represents the young
State) was, at the election of the first
Monday in June, lS0S, 1909. Here was
o gain of the anti radical party of over
fifteen hundred votes in voting pOpu
latiOn of about twenty thousand.
Taking these two States as an example,
we will find that the people are not
abandoning their hostility tn the TdniOn
and dangerous policy Of the ruling faction,
lrhich during three gears Of peace has in
creased the national dcbt and Kept mp ,rGr
prices and rar taxation. The Kentucky
election has taken place since the Prrsi-
DENTAL nominations Of bath parties
were made; and so far from the nominal
ton of the radical convention strength
ening the backbone of the faction, or
the nomination of Seymour. and Blair
weakening the spinal column of the De-
mocracy in that State, they have turn
ed events the other way. These results
are but the early indications (the
skirmlsh fire ~ il were) Of the
great revolutionary battle which
is about TO open. If the other
State elections which are 10 come Of
between this ana the Presidential con-
test in November should happen 10 give
like indications of popular hostility to
the Radical USuIpGtiORs and co rUptiORs,
WHO can tell hut that the nominees OF
the Chicago Convention may he over
whelmed 10y the weight of Radical NAL.
administration since the rebellioa was
wound up by General Grant that they
have TO carry OH their shoulders! If
We lock at the facts which confront the
people when they come to vote. We find
that TAXES TO THE AMOUNT OF
THREE THOUSAND MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS HAVE BEEN IMPOSED
UPON Us. WE FIND THAT THE
NATIONAL DEBT HAS BEEN IN
CREASED TO THE TUNE OF THREE
THOUSAND MILLIONS MORE. And
this, when the country is at peace and
the people had right to hope for
o reduction of taxes ana the nation
al obligation rs the fruit of
victory won, God knows with what
terrible sacrifices to every home and
hearth in the country. But instead OF
the load being lighfened zee are called
on TO bear further eractiORs, 10 submit 10
increased expenditures. In order TO keep
portion of the country i'll subsection
more troops are called for. Men toisted
into Congress from the Southern States,
and Governors who rally represent
little more than mock constituency,
demand from the Government an ex-
tensive army to assist them in carrying
out schemes and ambitions which are
purely partisan and are positively des.
tructive of the peace and good order of
the country. Ii is facts like these
which meet intelligent men of all
parties when they come to cast their
votes, and we cannot lie surprised that
majorities are found to protest en-
phatlcally against continuance of
this kind of government
THE PEOPLE DEMAND A CHANGE |
and IL is the people, and not any partlc-
ular party, who will make the issue AZ
the approaching election. Names and
individual candidates count for very
little in this contest. 1t is a cheap gov !
erpment, honestly administered in view
of the fact that the country is at peace. |
which the people require. 4 serious
coaRter-rerOlutiOR, therefore. terrible To
the politicians, no doubt, but good and
wholesome for the people-because il is
being born of the peoples at hand.
Nothing but the marvellous activity of
eur population aud the untold resources
of toe country could enable us to bear
the present burden of taxation or in |
duce us to submit to carry it so long. !
But it is evident that a reaction has set |
in, and it may be that in the course of
events as now foreShawed the next !
elections will result in sending a
majority to Congress possibly in favor of
repudiation, bat certainly in favor of a
vast reduction of the present enormous
taxation. The pablo mind leans that
way. Let us have peace, is the popu-
lar cry, aud the popular heart naturally
yearns for the possession of that pros
perity which Should accompany peace.
The result of the Presidential election /
may be so vaguely decided in the con-
dict between the rights of the Northern
and Southern States in the matter of I,
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