The New York herald., 1869-08-03
Ths August Elections.

expected, the majority for Seymour at the last
Presidential election being upwards of seventy
six thousand over Grant. Mr.. James w. Tate.
the present incumbent, has been reelected
State Treasurer by very handsome majority.
The Legislature, 1t is stated, will be composed
of an unusual number of men of ability, seve-
raj able gentlemen having accepted nomina-
tions and been elected who have eschewed
politics for several years past, among them
General Joseph H. Lewis, of Barren county.
The democrats hold the reins very tightly in
Kentucky, and with their immense majority no
| especial significance can be attached to the
vote yesterday other than that the party in
possession intend to hold on to power so long
as the people shall vouchsafe to permit them to
do so.
The election for six members sof Congress
takes place in Alabama to-day. The following
is list of the candidates Of the two parties,
conservative and RADICAL
ALABAMA ELgcrIoN-FoR CONGRESS.
Dist. C0nserudtfue. Radical.
l.-wiiiam D. Mann. Alfred Z. Buck.
A N. Worthy. Charles W. Buckley.
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There is very good prospect for the sue
cess of a conservative majority Of the delega-
ton, as the radicals have split among them
selves in at least two of the districts, while in
the others the conservatives have acted with
an unusual degree of liberality towards the
colored voters, and will, no doubt, win q
large number of them to their side. At the
last registry the negro voters outnumbered the
whites by little over sixteen thousand. In
the last Presidential election the State gave a
majority Of three thousand two hundred and
twenty-one for Grant. The result in Alabama
exctes no little interest, and the campaign has
been conducted with considerable spirit. If
the conservatives succeed in carrying a
majority of the Congressional dele
cation it may be regarded as an
echo of the conservative triumph in Virginia.
in effect an endorsement of General Grants
reconstruction policy, the policy pursued in
Virginia being as much his policy as that of
any member of his Cabinet He only wants
to see how it will work, and how the conserva-
tives in Virginia behave themselves under
the new order of things, in order to recon-
mend similar policy for adoption in the re-
naming outstanding States. Alabama, how
ever, is in the Union, enjoying all its benefits
particularly that Of helping to pay the enor-
nous public debt-and may not feel inclined to
follow in the footsteps of the Old Dominion in
shaping her future political destiny according
to the standard of Virginia. But she wants
liberal and able men in Congress to look after
her own interests and to restore her to her
former proud degree of prosperity; and from
all indications that duty can be reposed in the
hands of the conservative candidates with
greater assurance of its being faithfully full
filed than if. the State throws her strength
away again in the scale of the radicals.
The election in Tennessee occurs on the 9Th
inst.-next Thursday-and has awakened
more than ordinary interest and excitement,
drawing out members of the Cabinet-Boutwell
and Creswell-in favor of their man Stokes
for Governor, and causing those two amiable
twin-relics of political barbarism in East
Tennessee, Andy Johnson and Parson Brown
low, to range themselves side by side on
the same line in favor of Stokes opponent,
Senter. This is very neat arrangement for
sound cudgelling on both sides, and one in
which the Indifferent spectator might stand
aside and not care copper which side
whipped. This is probably the way President
Grant views this fight, But the manifest
impropriety Of members Of the Cabinet taking
sides in purely local squabble--for both Sem
ter and Stokes are or claim to be republicans
is calculated to do more injury than benefit to
their candidate, besides arousing their party
organs in the North, as has already been seen,
to some severe and well-merited seedlings in
apprehension Of the intrusion. All accounts,
however, go to show that Senter, the candi-
date Of Andy and the Parson, will be tri-
umphantly elected and the "Old Bald-headed
Eagle" Gas he is called), Stokes, be permitted
to seek his eyry at the crest Of some lofty
crag among the mountains of his native State.
In 1867 Parson Brownlow had nearly fifty two
thousand majority for Governor, and in 1868
General Grants majority was over thirty
thousand. It will be seen, therefore, that the
republicans have everything in Tennessee
pretty much their own way, but it will be
interesting to know which way the majority
lean, to that of enfranchisement and liberality
' on the side of Senter or to that of political
ostracism and stinginess on the side Of Stokes.
In Montana Territory an election will be
held for Delegate to Congress on the 10th
instant, which will conclude the August races
over the political course. The present demo-
cratic incumbent, Hon. James M. Cavanagh-
or plain ''Jim Cavanagh, as he is called by
his intimate friends-is candidate for re- -elec-
ton. He will probably walk over the course
and display some remarkably ''tall walking
at that
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