Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-10-14
From the Cincinnati Gazette of Wed
nesday.
THE ELECTIONS.

We have done well in Ohio. A year
ago we carried the State by a majority
of but little over seven thousand. At
the hour we write-2 A. Mt looks as
if the State was ours this year by a ma
iority of fifteen thousand Republicans
everywhere ought to be, and will be, sat
isfied with this result Considering the
fact that it is the off year, remembering
that the campaign has been character
lied by more apathy and dullness than
IS usual even in the off year, Republi-
cans may well rejoice over their success.
Ohio is still true to the principles she
stood by during the war, and is as pre-
pared to defend them now as then. She
gives her emphatic and powerful en-
| dorsement to the administration of Gen
eral Grant, and rebukes with stern
| ness none can fail to understand the
| plottings of the revolutionists who
would reopen all the issues the war had
settled. Well done for the old Com
| monweath
The result in the city, is in the highest
/ degree, gratifying. First of all, the
First District has been redeemed. Two
| years ago the Democrats carried it by a
majority of zII Yesterday it returned
to its old faith, sending Mr.. Perry to
represent it in the next Congress by a
majority of 682. The Second District
has done better than the most sanguine
Republican expected. Mr.. Stevenson
viii return to Congress backed by a ma
jority Of over 1900 against a majority of
| less than 500 two years ago. The whole
Republican county and State ticket is al
so elected. the majorities ranging from
that of Leininger, the candidate for Audi
ltor, to $50 for Mr.. Ampt, the candidate
for Prosecuting Attorney. 1t has been a
| clean sweep. The Democrats have not
Ia single crumb of comfort. A more
overwhelming defeat they have not met
with in years.
The result in several of the Congress
sional Districts IS still in doubt. We
have carried the First, Second, Sixth,
Seventh, Eighth, Eleventh, Fourteenth,
! Fifteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and
! Nineteenth Districts-in all eleven. The
Fourth, Ninth and Sixteenth Districts
are in doubt, with the chances in favor
! of the Republicans. The Third Dis
trict IS badly mixed up, and it is impos-
sible to say whether Schenck or Camp
! bell has the best of the race. The Dem
ocrats have carried the Fifth, Twelfth
| and Thirteenth In the last Congress
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I 3; Democrats, 6. In the next Con
| gross the Republicans have certainly II,
! and probably "A, with a bare chance of
| IS. No signs Of a reaction here.
! From Indiana the returns are very
meager. We have probably carried the
State by small majority. A dispatch
from Indianapolis says the political com
plexion of the next Congressional dele
I'CatiOn Is unrbapuad
Pennsylvania, dispatch from Phila-
delPhia says, sends to the next Congress
a delegation divided about the same
politically as the present one-that is Is
Republicans to 9 Democrats.
Iowa, of course, is all right 1t is
doubtful if she could be anything else if
she tried. Her FIVE Congressman are all
Republicans.
From Nebraska we have no news.
Summing up the genernal result in the
four States from which we have returns,
we find that the Republicans have held
their own. We can not but regard this
as a great triumph, for the party went
into the campaign expecting to lose a
number Of Congressman. They have
lost nothing, and the Democrats, who
staked everything in these elections have
gained nothing. Now let the States
that hold their elections in November
do as well as this, and Republicans can
! ask no more.