The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1869-11-08
OUR ELECTION AND ITS RESULTS.

The battle has been fought, won and
lost
And zee are the ricims! 81,
The result, as cast up by the Wheeling
Register, is us follows: III,
I'VE have tolerably fnirSreturns from
forty Counties in the State, which elect
fory-six members to the House, OF
these the Democrats have twenty, as fol.
lcws:-Rrosks1, Ohio 8, We,zel l.
Wood and peasants. delegate district
2, Calhoun and Gillncr delegate Dis
tricl) l,;hcwis !, Harrison /, Doddridge
/, Tuylor l, Tucker and Randolph (Del-
cgate pistricDI. Hampshire /, Jefferson
l. Mason-l, . Kanawha2, Braxions /,
Wayne 1-20. The regular proscrip,ivc
Republicans have sixteen, ms follows {:
Hancock !, Marshall /, Writ l, Harrison
! cRilcl,ic I, Mario, 9, Monougalia .,
Preston 9, Morgan j, Berkeley i, Jeiler.
son I, Jackson l. Pcnalcton 1--lG.
The Liberal Republicans, supported
BY tho Democrats on the platform of the
prompt repeal of all Test Oaths and disa-
bling measures, number ten, from the
following Counties Marshall J.. Tyler
L. Barbour i, Upshur ], Mineral L,
Grant andllIardy Delegate Distric,) l.,
Berkeley l i. lioane i Putnam l.. Poca.
hontns and Webster delegate District)
Ito. @
i, Definite returns from the remaining
thirteen Counties, all in the Southwest,
have not been received. "A telegram re-
ccived in this city yesterday, however,
stated that the entire range Of Southwest.
ern Counties had been carried by the
Democrats. Making due allowance for
the panicky condition of our Republican
friends, whose Consideration may have
caused this information to be exaggerated.
VIC think the following would BE- a fair e.-.
innate Of results IN the Counties not def
nitcly reported Republicans three.
from tue Crcenbricr aud Monroe Delegate
District. Democrats four, from Logan,
Boone, Mercer and Fayette. Liberals
three, from The Delegate Districts Of
Clay and Nicholas, Cabell and Lincoln,
and Raleigh, Wyoming and Mcdowell;
This will give the Democrats twcnty-four
members Of tho House, the Republicans
nineteen, and the Liberals thirteen. We
are well satisfied that the final figures
will cause this Classification to vary very
little, ifany." - 9 IN !.
The whole number Of Delegates 1885,
aud 20 is q majority. BY the above show
ing, uniting the Democrats with The Lib
erals (who were elected BY Democrats)
we have SO and the radicals have 20. Blu.
We will correct ono error into which'wc,
as we'll as the Register, have fallen =
Bra1ton has. elected q radical. This
change gives tina: party 81, and leaves IS
to the Proscriptiopis.s. which is six
moretlian q majority Of The whole mum.
bcr elected. 81 . Constitutional, quorum.
Tho great prise contested for in this
election, and which was won by, the pco-
pie, is Public Vittue as opposed to Vice
and Corruption especially the corrup-
ton oftbe ballot. The issue was plainly
marked, and the Registration ou,rages
have been equal ! rs plainly condemned.
We have no fears that the Liberal nom
bcrs will Ego back upon themselves and
on an issue so honorable to them and so
just 10 thcpeople. They have vindica.ed
the great principles in republican form
.ofgoecrnment that public virtue is the
pillar Of support to The State, and that
vice is the fuicksand at its base; and III.
stead Of fal.ering in the great work SO 10.
bly, undertaken. against such odds and
won. it viii be found that their moral sit.
ua.ion will BE- SO potential that ali the re.
forms needed will be Of easy accomplish.
ment by the next Legislature. ..aa.a
We predict that the next Legislature
will be marked by craftsmanship that
all corrupting forms Of Legislation will be
promptly rebuked, aud that enlightened
policy-whether Il shall bcnet. those in
Jewels Or it, rags, will DO adopted; and
tlatapy effort to continue the disfrancli.
sing clauses ofour registration laws will
be checked With no less promp.ncss than
the hand should be restrained that holds
the torch Of the inccndiary to dwelling
Since the above was in type we learn
that Tyler County elects Solemn Wells, in.
dependent Democrat, and that Boone,
Faye.te, Raleigh, Logan and Wyoming,
Cabell and Lincoln have all been carried
thus electing four Democrats aud one lib.
eral. Letters to the Register say that the
Democrats have carried every County in
the Southwest except Groenbrier and Mon,
roc. G..s ..,7. Il ps
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