The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-11-05
THE ELECTION.


Now, that the smoke of battle has
cleared away, and the shouts of the
victors have ceased, and the wounded
have been properly cared for, and
the COarier's rooster has croWed, we
may safely cast around US to see, If
possible, what 1t is that our Demo
cratic friends were SO jubilant over.
The Democratic majority in Hancock
county is greater than it was one
year ago, but q comparison OF the
votes of 1868 and 1869 does not
show that the increase is the result
of Democratic gains in the county,
but, on the contrary, will show an
actual Democratic loss, and that
their majority is the result of tho
rrvPuUIIcan party.
At the Presidential election in
November, of last year-at which
time the entire strength of each party
was brought out--the Democratic
vote was 2,52S, and the Republican
2,279, giving the Democrats a ma
jority of 249. At the last election
the Democratic vote was 2,4S3 and
the Republican 1,946, giving a Dem
ocratic majority of 537. Showing
the Democratic loss to be but 40,
whilst the Republican loss was 333,
and, after accounting for the Demo
cratic loss by those who stayed away
from the polls, shows an actual loss
of SO to that party.
Now we will admit that this fact
is but small comfort to those Repub-
licans who stood up nobly to the
work, and by their acts brought
about this result, yet it ought to
bring q blush of shame to the checks
of those who wilfully absented them
selves from the polls. Had each of
these 333 delinquent voters been at
the polls, and used their influence in
favor of the ticket, the result would
have been quite different, and our
county, to day, might have stood
partially redeemed from Democratic
rule. By thus absenting themselves
from the polls, they have not only
permitted the election of the Demo-
cratic ticket, by an increased major
ity, in the county, but they have, by
so many votes, reduced our majority
on the State ticket. They have con
tributed, in an indirect way, to the
endorsement of Pendleton and all his
base and reasonable acts. They
have indirectly assisted in giving him
a seeming popularity with the people
of Ohio, to which he is not entitled.
In short, they have, by their negli-
gence, "given aid and comfort to the
enemy
Whilst the result of the late cleo
ton cannot now be changed, yet
Republicans can, and ought to, see
to it, that no such falling OFF in our
vote shall again happen. If we be-
lieve that the principles Of the Dem
ocratic party are wrong, we can
not right them by staying away from
the polls and allowing them to sue
ceed in obtaining power in the Gov
ernment. If we believe the princi
pies of the Republican party are
right, it is our duty to maintain them
by our earnest efforts, our inflUenceI
and our votes. We, as party, be-
lieve that no greater calamity could
befall the country, than the accession
of the Democratic party to power in
the Government, and yet we are not
at all times careful to make our
belief and our acts correspond. The
Democratic party are thoroughly
and vote at every election,
and hence their success, The Re-
publican party are not so well organ
lied; they depend too much on past
victories and are too confident of sue
cess; hence their supineness.
This lukewarmness, this reliance
on our ability to carry the election,
had like to have cost US the control
Of the State, and to have placed those
in power who would have repudiased
the administration of the general
Government, and unless we wake up.
unless We exercise the power we have
IS electors, we will most assurediy
lose all we now have of political
power.
Republicans should now, after the
excitement of the campaign is over,
calmly consider what action should ,
be taken in the future. Should re-
solve to SO act that in the future the 4,
whole strength of the party may be s
elt, and that the principles foI which 6
We Lave SO long fought, and the |
naintenancesot which have cost so
much, shall still triumph and be the |
esding idea in the government of the G
Fhole country, PLEASANT, G