The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-10-29
West Yirxinia Eleetion..

Although nearly week has elapsed
EsiH1ce EhH1 the election; took place in, West
Virginia, for Governor Legislature
and members of Congress, we are
without the result al, this time. The
state is claimed by both parties; the
Demperats, claiming that they have
elected the Governor, Legislature, and
two the Of three members Of Congress.
Whatever may be the exact result,
there is no room for doubt that the
Democracy have made large and sub
stancial gains, and that state created
by the Republicans for their especial
benefit is by no meaus certain to Ca cast
its its electoral Yote for the Radical eandi-
dates..if5 aff i'sii9h!e9.'1 Eiiai'i> llfF
,..o11 The following from the Wheeling
Register is the latest we have hrsa s seen en- in
reference to the : result 9Ii ip this State.
Although the returns from the late
election in this State come in with
provoking 'sfoWness, they indicate re-
snlts of the most satisfactory character.
Tolerably ycomplete reports are, in from
eighteen counties out of, the fifty three
composing. the State. They show a
net Democratic gain Of about twenty
five hundred, and the same ratio of
gain throughout the State, which ratio
certainly exists, gives us'West Virgin
la by handsome majOFity.GiF
In the Legislature we have gained
handsomely We have gained the
Delegate ind efersops cone in, Hamp-
shire, one in Mineral probably one in
the Grant and Hardy districts. two in
the Pleasahts and Wood districts. and
wehope itwoaih Harrison county, al
though itIisuelaimed that Davis and
Wilson are beaten in the latter county
by about l3. Henry, G., Davis, Esq. is
undoubtedly elected to the; Senate
from Hampshire district, and Peterson,
Wel learn, has sbeatem FafnsWorth in |
the ppshur county district. These
are both gains. In the, GreenbriaR re-
gion, and other distant portions of the
State, we shall certainly increase |
largely our strength inthe Legislature.
there is every reason to- believe that /
We shall have a majority on Joint bal /
+et, end thae be -ahle to eena a psuae- !
urat TO the U. s. Senate as the SUCCESS
s4r of Mr.. Van Winkleo Tive out of
t9s three members of Congress from
THIS State seem to be ours, and the case
OF the third is by. no means hopeless.
: In many places in this State, as we
learn from our exchanges, negroes as
black ais Efebus marched to the polls
ct the late election ana were permitted
to- vote without being questioned BY
The Radical judges of the election who
had control Of the p8lis,9 in plain, pal
oable violation Of the Constitution +,
ind laws of the State and in 2opposi- Il
Jon Jon to the, VIII Of the people as ex- \
PRESSED ugh4theuballot-box last 4
ear. While all over the State, bya
,reconcerted arrangement, Iiey every ~ OBJ
tacle was placed in the way z of flor for 1
ign born citizens to prevent their vo- II
ing unless It was known they Would
1ote the Radical ticket. Men who {
lad voted at Our polls for years and &
lad SO often shown their naturaliza- /
ion papers that scarcely any cit citizens t
'ut knew them to be legal voters t
we're required to go to their homes to s
'btaini their papers ;aaanhd this was the t
ase in many If not all other parts of a
he State. Our naturafized citizens I
an See from these practices Of the c
Ga : dlicaly that they hey place the negro
boye them2,h and Would confer Upon i q
i'm # higher privileges / than ! upon the
ftizen Of Of foreign foreign biif4tth. SIS 10 74etTaFe
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