Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-10-01
BLIND.

re coming to them from every
de, and obstinately pursue their
curse Of outrage and wrong
he leaders in this band Of dis.
.onest men from time to time
broadcast untruthful state
of their condition to blind
he uniformed and unthinking,
Who have been for the past few
years following their lead stimu-
thereto by q system of pre-
kept alive by falsehood
against the South. There is no
subject upon which the Radical
party so persistly falsifies as its
declining strength. The public
has recently been treated from
Radical sources with untruthful
statements Of the result of the
election in Maine; Of which we
can only say that when Mr..
Speaker Blaine sent his dispatch
from Maine, announcing that the
Republicans had elected their
Governor by about the same ma
jOrity as last year, he evidently
had not heard the latest news
The Republican majority for Gov.
ernar last year, according to the
Tribune almanac, was ll,724, to
whichs must be added 4,743 Re.
publican votes cast for Hinchman
the Radical prohibitory candidate
This makes the true Radical ma.
jority of last year a total of l6,467
Now, unfortunately for Blaine'i
statement, the Utmost majority
claimed for the Radical candidate
this year is a little over 5000
while Democrats assert it will no
be more than 5000.
Thus the Democratic gain ii
one year will be, according t
Radical estimates, 10000; &C
cording to Democratic, over IL,
900!
While the Radical papers here
about are waiting to hear some
thing further from Blaine, we com
mend 10 their notice the followin!
from the Nation, n Republican pa
per which evidently does not rel
exclusively on Blaine for news
The Nation, concerning the result
of the recent elections in Vernon
and Maine, writes as follows:
"There are Democratic gains il
both these States, too, and il
Maine they are heavy. Something
over $4,000 was the Republican
majority last year, and this year
although the vote is very heavy
and although, dispite Speake
Blaine's assertion that there la
been no organized campaign, tn
popular interest was very lively
and although the Republica,
strength was not divided by tn
secession Of the strict prohibition
lists, the majority will probably ia
as low as 5000, and may 70
below that number. 1t is not cas-
to make q New England State Civ
up its favorite party, and the pol
teal leaders Of the Republica
party may look on the preseT
condition of things as full Of war;
: ing. tits impossible to say, as v
write, whether Mr., Chamberlai
/, or Morrill, has most friends in I'll
. Legislature. Should the Republ
can differences not be settled
, caucus, it is not unlikely that u
! Democrats and Mr.. Chamberlain
friends will have things all the
own way.
The fact is that, aside from Il
r loss of two delegates mot mel
bers of Congress) from Wyomir
and Colorado, the State election
of 1870 have thus far been a seri
of victories for the Democrat
! Connecticut opened the ball
April with the choice of a Dem
cratic Governor, instead of a r
: publican chosen the year previou
= Then came the judicial election
y. for Appeal Judges in New Yor
|. which resulted in the success
the Democracy by the unpreceder
D ed majority of $4,000 votes. Or
gon followed in June, and elect,
a Democratic Governor, Congress
4 man and Legislature, %insuril
I the choice of a Democratic U.
senator in place Of Williams, r
publican. In August, the conse
natives or democrats-which
q the same thing in North CaroliI
swept that State, choosing tv
thirds Of the Legislature and Il
Congressional delegation, on