The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-11-11
Democracy Triumphant !
NEW YORK. NEW Jersey AND MA
RYLAND CARRIED BY IN
CREASED MAJORHTEES!

NEW YORK. NEW Jersey AND MA
RYLAND CARRIED BY IN
CREASED MAJORITHES.
Great Gains i'm Massachusetts. Illinois.
Wisconsin and Minnesota!
The result of the elections held on
Tuesday, I'd inst, shows, at the same
time, the vitality and recuperative
power of the Democratic party and the
gradual but certain disintegration and
decadence of the radical organization
New York has elected the whole
Democratic State Ticket by majorities
ranging from 20,0O0 to 10000! Last
year Seymour carried the State by
10000. What is better, we have both
branches Of the legislature for The first
time IN. fifteen gears. The snap judg-
ment ratification of the Fifteenth A
mendment passed by the last legisla-
ture of that state, will, therefore, be re-
pealed. All hail, glorious New York I!
New Jersey, ever faithful New Jer-
sey, goes Democratic by an increased
popular majority, and elects Demo-
cratic legislature which will reject the
Fifteenth Amendment and elect T.
nited States Senator in place of the car
-bagger, Cattell.
Maryland, our Maryland, elects the
Democratic ticket in every county, a
unanimously Democratic legislature,
and the Democratic State Ticket by at
least 80, 900 majority!
Massachusetts elects Claf1in, Radical,
by about 10000 over J. Q. Adams,
Democrat, and Chamberlain, Working
mems candidate. Last year Clafiin's
majority was about $4,000. The Dem
crats have also some sixty members of
the lower house, nine Senators and
one member of the Governors Coun-
Gil. Heretofore but few Democrats
have been elected to either branch of
the legislature.
Wisconsin goes Radical, as usual, but
by small majority. Last year Grant
carried the State by 81 900,
Minnesota is in doubt, even at this
writing. Ifthe Democratic candidate
for Governor is beaten at all, the ma
jority for his opponent is very meagre.
Last year Grant had $4,000,
Illinois elected county officers and
members of a Constitutional Conven-
ton. The radicals lost heavily. In Chi
cago and Cook county, which formerly
gave from 5000 to 10000 radical major
ity, the usual order of things has been
completely revised, and the Democrat
ic Citizens Ticket is elected by 10000
majority.
West Virginia elects a liberal legis-
lature. The radicals are divided in
that State on thequestion of continued
disfranchisement of white men, as we'll
as on the subject of enfranchising the
blacks. The proscriptionists, or "Bit-
ter enders," as they are called, have
been badly beaten. The Democrats
and ''Let-ups'' have majority in both
branches of the legislature. The odiOus
registration law, by which about one
half of the white men of the State
were held in political bondage, will be
repealed, and hereafter West Virginia
will range herself in the Democratic
column.
Auspicious and cheering results are
these, yet at the same time they are
terrible commentary on the loss of in
fiaence of our own once influential but
now degraded State. The time was
when the voice of Pennsylvania de-
cided for either p8rty, New York and
New Jersey were certain to echo the
decision, and the Western States just
as sure to endorse the judgment with
an overwhelming vote. But not so
now. The reelection of John w.
Geary, notorious as a trickster, cor
ruptionist and aqledge-breaker, has so
disgusted the thinking men Of neigh
boring States, that they felt it their
duty to show their contempt for the
recreancy of Pennsylvanians whose
| lead they were formerly proud to fol.
low. The watch-word will no longer
be, 'As goes Pennsylvania, so goes
the Union ~ Alas, no. The glory ol
the Old keystone has departed, and
| will not be restored until her stiff
necked children turn from their evil
ways and march again under the Dem
| oeratic banner.
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A CORRESPONDENT of the Philadel
| phia HlQuirer states that the cost o
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