The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-19

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The Coming October MISREPRESENTATION
VIII Settle the Question.
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa will
hold their State elections this year on the 18th
of October, embracing their delegations to the
next, or Forty-irst, Congress-. The results of
the September elections in Vermont and Maine
have sufficiently indicated the drift of the
popular tide to justify the republicans in their
expectations of decisive victory in November
under the banner of Grant and Colfax; but
the democratic organs and leaders still hold out
the hope to their party that these coming
October elections will show that in the Central
States and in the great West the political reac-
ton therein of 1867 is still progressing. They
do not appear to expect much from Ohio but
they are making a desperate fight of it in
Indiana, and are preparing to contest every
inch of ground from Philadelphia to Pitts
burg and in every corner of Pennsylvania.
From the recent local elections in the distant
Territories Of Colorado and New Mexico we
think it is apparent that the same general
causes which have sweed the usual repub-
lican majorities in Vermont and Maine are
operating over the whole country In other
words, we think it apparent that the demo-
Gratis, in making their battle of 1868 sub
stantially their battle of 1864, will suffer
under Seymour the defeat of Mcclellan
The Pennsylvania October election will
settle the question. How will Pennsylvania
%o Al
State by from twenty to twenty five thousand
majority. The democrats hope to carry it, and
that is all. They build their expectations on
the October elections of 1856, 1862 and 1867
But in the election of 1856 the opposition
elements were divided into two factions or par
ties, the republican party under Fremont and
the American party under Fillmore, while State
pride strengthened the democrats under Blu
chanan. Yet, cold and distrustful as was the
fusion of the Fremont and Fillmore factions in
October, it came within some two thousand
votes of holding the State. The real strength
of the leading republican idea, "no further
extensions of slavery" was fully developed
only with the dissolution and dispersion of the
disturbing American or Know Nothing party. |
Growing up like Jonah's gourd in the course |
of night, and fading like it under the heat of |
the morning sun, that Know Nothing faction,
if it did nothing else as third party, prevented
in 1856 that popular judgment of the North
which in 1860 decreed that there should be
'.no further extensions Of slavery"
From that point, which marked the disrup- |
ton and dissolution of the old pro-slavery
democratic party, we date new political |
epoch. The Northern elections behind the |
year 1860 of the old pro-slavery period will
hardly, therefore, apply to the present order
of things. Certainly the Pennsylvania Octo-
Der election of 1856, with Buchanan and three
parties in the field, is out of the question.
But in the midst of the war, in 1862, the de-
mocracy carried the State by three thousand
majority. There is not much comfort how
ever, in that when we remember that the
democratic war cry of that year, Seymour and
all, was "a more vigorous prosecution Of the
war, and that upon this ISSUE on short vote,
| the elections of 1862 in Pennsylvania and New
| York went by default. There remains the
| Pennsylvania October election of 1867, in
which the democrats were successful by some
nine hundred majority. after having been
beaten the year before by seventeen thousand
| majority.
Let US look into this Here are the figures
of the general result of the October elections
of 1866 and 1867 in Pennsylvania:
isoe-Republican vote for Governor. 3O7,274
| Democratic vote. ................... 29OOso
! Total vote cast 597, $40
Republican majority Observation-Disclosures. HIS
1s6,-Republican vote, supreme judge. 266, s24
| Democratic vote. observation-disclosures. 267,746
Total vote cast 53457O
! Democratic majority ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 922
Here, it will be remarked, looking simply at
the republican majority in one year and the
democratic majority in the other, is decided
political reactions but we see that it signifies
little or nothing when we turn to the aggregate
] vote
| Total vote OF 1866 5e7,3,0
Total vote OF 1867 534,5T0
DE fciency OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 81, 800
OF this deficiency the figures further show in
round numbers that forty thousand was re-
publican and twenty two thousand democratic,
leaving a republican balance or majority on
this reserved vote of eighteen thousand and
all this vote ia this October election will be
brought out 1t will thus appear that unless
there is change in the opinions of some
twenty thousand Pennsylvania republicans of
1866 in favor of Seymour and against Grant
| there il no hone for the democracy in Penn