Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-10-28


For 60 careful and shrewd a politician,
Senator Cameron made great mistake on
the subject OF the election when he tele-
grarhesi =. Pre- sident that ''Pennsyi MIA
Is right side up In the light OF the
official returns We SEQ that his side and
that Of Grant We're never down so low in
that great State.
The successes which have been obtained
there by the Democratic party Chis fall are
the more remarkable from the fact that in
the present campaign they were almost
without organization and diacipline.-
There seems to have been no efficient
central committee, and each candidate
made the contest on his own account
Some Of the election returns full Of
interest.
In the Sixteenth District B. L. Meyers,
free-trade Democrat, succeeds John Cessna,
The most unscrupulous member of that no
torious committee Of elections, by whose
action so many Democrats have, ot late
wears, lost the seats to which the people
had elected them. In q spirited contest
on q direct issue Of free trade and protec-
ton. the official majority against Cessna in
that formerly Republican district is thir-
teen votes !; and this Notwithstanding the
fact that Cessna's forces were increased by
about thousand negro voters.
l.. Milton SpcCr, Democrat, is elected
over Daniel J. Morrell in the Seventeenth
Dis rict, composed of the iron counties of
the Juniata Valley, by o majority of eleven
votes. Mr.. Norrell is well known as one
of the members Of the Cambria Iron Com
pany at Johnstown, Pa, and as part
owner of the Bessemer steel patent. His
votes III Congress in favor of his own
selfish interests were directly challenged
in tho contest, and he was defeated on
that issue. His majority two years ago
was 1,004. The overthrow of this member
of the tariff ring will do much to break
down its power.
Henry Sherwood, Democrats defeats
VIM. Fl. Armstrong in the Eighteenth
District by twenty-five votes on the official
count. This is a great victory. In 1868
Armstrong was sent to Congress by a ma
jority of 2, 2,02S votes. His bad record in
Congress in favor of the tariff monopolists,
the and-jobbers, and other combinations
to dofrand and oppress the people, has
caused this great revolution in public SEN
timent. Two counties of this Pennsylva-
MIA district lie along the Southern New
York line, and the same state of opinion
on political questions exists on both sides
Of the border. In Cuemung. Steuben and
Allee ehany counties results similar to that
in Potter and Mexican counties may be
anticipated in November.
In the three Pennsylvania Congressional
Districts above mentioned the aggregate
majorities of all three Democratic candi-
dates elected sum up only forty-six votes;
and already notice has been given that the
seats Of two of them will be contested
This has been the Radical game Of late
years When defeated by the people they
have carried their cases before q partisan
committee Of elections in Congress-, and
have corruptly secul ed a fraudulent rtYer
sal of the popular decree. But the people
will not patiently witness the renewal OF
such outrages in the next Congress.
Gilfllan, who went to Congress in 1868
by Samuel Griffith, Democrat, in the
Twentieth District 4; and Donley, in the
Twenty fourth District, finds his majority
of l, 123 completely reversed. and Captain
William McClelland, a Democrat, elected
over him by q maj ajority OF nearly seven
hundred. The same causes which oper-
ated against Cessna, Morrell and Arm
strong worked with double force against
these Radical M mbers in the extreme wes
tern portion of the State.
Henry D. Foster succeeds John Covode
in the Forty second Congress from the
Twenty first District. He was defrauded
of his seat in the present Congress by the
Committee cf Elections, but he is now re-
turned by majority of 700-a vote SO de-
cisive that no committee of Congress will
dare to interfere with this verdict of the
people. Covode himself did not risk con-
test, and Andrew St)warts an octogenari-
an, fam l1arly known in Pennsylvania pol
itics as g Tariff Andy" was thrust forward
to meet defeat at the hands of free-trade
Democrat. Mr. Foster has already served
in Congress, and is an able and expert
enced leader.
In the strong Democratic District of Lu-
zerne and Susquehanna Radical Is elec-
ted to Congress by apathy and divisions in
| AZ &I@o II nfd IN
which we have recorded the success of the
Democrats, they won by squarely facing
the Radicals on their tariff record in the
present and former Congresses. But in
Luzerne the canvass was timidly and cold
~ conducted against the monopollsts, and
defeat Is the consequence. The same may
be said of the Lebanon and Schuylkill dis
tricts, in which an energetic campaign on
the true issues would have secured Dem
ocratic triumph.
PENNSYLVANIA has done nobly. There is
net gain of five Democrats for the Forty
second Congress, making a change of ten
votes in that body. Now for New York.
Let us make sure that our success is as
gIeat in proportion and as creditable to us
as that which has been achieved by our
Pennsylvania friends.
At an early day we shall analyze the sue
cesses which have been obtainek IN lndl-
ana and Ohio. We have taken up Penn
sylvania first, because the result in that
State is so complete an answer to the
timid counsels of those who would have
the Democratic party dissemble its con-
victions on the doctrine OF free trade for
the sake of winning Pennsylvania votes.
This election shows that even in Pennsyl-
vania a manly stand on free trade ground
| is what insures the support of the Demo
cratic masses.-New York World.
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