The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1869-11-11
The Elections Of 1869.

gard to the status OF the different parties,
and il will also be seen, from reading the
article, that several of the States have in
the reycn, elections changed rrout, and are
now pushing forward puv,r principles, and
working -l@ori,usly for the r,-cstaJlish-
mont ot the government on a good sound
basis, which must result tcncfcially to all.
"Ihc election Of President for the last
forty wears, has always carried with il a
Congressional majority to sustain linn.
We do uot remember o single instance
whern t1c io'cated party was able to rally
lis ~,, atth2 State c'5ctiuu,immadiatc-
y succeed lis inausurat;on, Norhaya
we eyeg ascmsd it very important that it
should. Tile party that elected a popular
soldier to the Chief Nagi,;gacy in 1865,
had strong reasons Ior believing tina; they
would have pla,sau, sailing for at least
two years. But such has not been the re-
suit. The elections of this year are near
ly all over and we can now take 4 survey
OF Che Held. The very first election show
ed the weakness Of the national admins
trouon'
Inc contest in Virginia fer Governor
was between Walker, a conservative Re-
publican, and Wells, a proscriptiyc Radi-
CAL 1t Is well known that the Admins
iratIon greatly desired the success Of the
latter The former was elected by twcn-
ty thousand majority The Conservatives
OF the State also elected 4 majority Of
congressman, and an overwhelming ma
Jority mtheLegisIatrre. The latter body
have since elected two Conservatives to
the Senate Of the United States. These
are bitter pills for Radical Congressman
to swallow, but they will have to gulp
them down as best they can. The Virgin
iaus having complied with the act of Con-
gres5 and the requirements of the Prcsi-
dent, must be admitted to their riahtful
place IN the Union during the approaching
winter.
The result IN Tennessee was cheering to
the friends OF civil liberty everywhere, and
especially to our Gown-trodden and OPP
pressed noIghbors, The Scandalous letters
OF hout"ciI and CreswoII clearly showed
the anImns oi the administration but they
only maze the Conservative triumph in
tennessee the more complete. Never did
hadioaIIsm receive such = crushing defeat.
lHero Is scarcely a grease-spot left Not
a single radical from the State IN the pres
cut congress can oe reelected. The Legls-
nature no" III session al nashville VIII rub
o"' all 'He INFAMOUS ehactments OF The past
Jour years. ana set the state on her old
IegS again. We assure oar Democratic
ir''Nds that they may have no fears of
tennessee. Judge Cooper, who has just
peeh elected to the Senate OF the United
oV"'eS' wa" ior Mcclellan IN 1851 and for
seymour IN 1900 lie Is a conservative
man and dead out against Rodlcalism.
The Democrats swept over California
Ike a WhlrIwlnd' The probabilities are
that the Republicans, or Radicala, will
never again be able to make a respectable
race IN that State. We will simply add
that California went for Grant in '6S.
1t Is useless to waste wordso on Vermont.
She Is joined to her idols. Let her 90.
Maine Is an old Democratic State, but
she strayed oft some fourteen years ago,
and it may be that she will never return
to the fold. Still, we have hope. There
were favorable indications in the late elec-
tons The Radical majority was reduced.
Where there are so many able, hard work.