The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-09-12

made the chief issue of the canvass.
The result so startled the Radicals that
| the new Legislature, at the session last
winter, amended the law so as to eliml-
nate its most obnoxious features, in the
hope of regaining for their party the
votes it lost last September. An exam
ination of the vote since 1864, as given
in the following table, will present the
matter in clearer light.
VOTE FOR GOVERNOR.
Dem. Rep. Rep. Maj. Total Vote: vote:
,ssi 4g 4n3 Is 5s3 1850 .lll,9s6
IsGi a $40 jt43O 22,s2l e6,039
1866 . IL, ,9i1 6963I 1850 l,5ei
isG7.... 1880 57s3a 1882 lO3,322
VOTE FOR PRESIDENT.
Dem. Rep. Rep. MAJ: Total VOTE;
1864. =. 1888 67,sO5 20,sl7 1873
From this table are deduced the av-
erage vote of each party for Governor
for tho last four years, together with
the average vote of the State and the
average Radical majority, to wit:
| Average Democratic vote. 4l,4oI
Average Radical vote. te.---.........-.. oi, 40
| Average Radical majority .........-.... 2O,299
| Average total vote. te...--..-...-..-.... io3,2t1
Including the Presidential vote of
1864, theS.able of averages would stand
thus: /"
Average Democratic vote. 49,5sI
| Average Radical vote e........-...-...-.. 62,99I
Average Radical majority .............. 20,3.1
Average total vote. .-.-:-.-..--...". loo'o1'
These figures show that at the election
| last year the Radicals pOlled smaller
vote than at any election for four years
(that of 1865 excepted, when neither
| : ..l,t &c f,1 or
a smaller vote by 5625 than their aver
age for the same length of time The
Democrats alse polled fewer votes than
they did in September or November,
1864. The reason for this is found in
the fact heretofore stated.
Another fact to be noted is that the
average Radical majority for four years
past is between twenty and twenty-ene
thousand, and has exceeded that figure
whenever the party has polled its full
vote Hence, all calculations of the re-
suit of the coming election that are
based upon smaller majority than this
| (such as that of last year) are worth
less. The true basis for computation is
q previous Radical majority of over 2o,-
900, and by as many rotes as this Is re-
duced is the Democratic gain TO be meas
ured. In truth, the largest vote polled
| by the State since that of 1864, was
cast in 1866, when the Radicals obtain
ed majority of q $50, and it would be
but fair to make this the basis of calcu-
lation, awarding them credit for all
that they may gain on this figure, and
crediting the Democrats with any re-
duction therein.
The following facts developed i'll the
present canvass are from correspond
ent of the New York Herald:
AMONG THE FACTORY OPERATIvES-How
THEY SPEAK AND FEEL--A REIGN OF
TERROR-THE SUPERINTENDENTS OF
THE MILLS INTIMIDATING THEM.
LEWISTON, ANDRoSCoGGIN Co.,
MAINE, September 5, 1868.
have during the past two days cir
culated among the operatives of the
wooden and cotton mills and other man
ufactories that line the rocky banks of
the Androscoggin river. The results of
my observations are not of the most
cheering nature. In nearly all of the
factories find the employees complain
ing of severe burdens, small pay and
little employment. They generally
agree that the cause of all their troa-
bles is the maladministration of public
affairs by the dominant Radical party,
and they sigh for peace and better
times. While the great majority ex-
press preference for the Conservative
party, they frankly admit that upon
their votes depends their bread and
butter. Nearly all the manufactures
are run by Superintendents, who, not
withstandiug that the great body of
stock is owned by Democrats, are Rad
icals, and therefore exercise their little
brief authority to compel those under
them to vote as they do. Hundreds in
Lewiston, Auburn, Little Falls and
other towns would gladly vote the Con-
servative ticket were they permitted to
do so, but as it has been customary in
past to dispense with the services OF
those who so vote-they are afraid to
90 to the polls, except to vote the ticket
of their superintendents, lest they
should bethrown ont of employment and
their families suffer. The factory at
Little Falls and the Bales Manufactu-
ring Company of this place are the only
establishments l have heard of where
these partisan servants of Democratic
stockholders do not endeavor to intim-
: idate those employed. 1t is not GUS
temary with the superintendent to say
to the discharged, "You are dismissed
for voting the Democratic ticket" but
it is customary for Democrats to find
soon after the election that their ser
vices are no longer required.
Bribery and intimidation, therefore,
are the Radical cards now being played
in Maine. The corrupt and infamous
party which is destroying the business
interests of the nation, dare not &c
fairly before the people, and ask an
honest verdict on their reasonable pol
icy. In the earnest hope that their foul
play will succeed, they now assert that
"the election in Maine will practically
determine the Presidential election
and the country will no doubt be en-
tertained on Tuesday morning next
with q series of lying dispatches about
Immense gains" that will all fade
away when the plain truth of the con
test is revealed. The Democrats will
poll the largest vote on Tuesday next
they ever polled in the State, and what
ever may be the result, their indom
J liable courage will continue the Pres
idential fight as vigorously after
the vote has been announced as before
it was taken. Having no wish to deludt
our brethren with false hopes, We beg
them to recall to mind the large majori
ties cast during the last few years fol
the Radicals in that State, and to 70