The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-10-03
PENNSYLVANIA AND OHIO-THE
ELECTION DAY.

AS"A
On next Tuesday, one week from To-
day, the annual election takes place in
our neighboring States. Ohio and Penn
sylvania. In Ohio a full ticket OF State
officers, from Governor down, is to be
chosen, and a Legislature elected which
will choose an United States Senator to
fill the vacancy occasioued by the ex-
piration of JOHN SHERMAN's term. In
Pennsylvania a Legislature and two
State officers, an Auditor General and
Surveyor General, are to be elected
In each State great deal of popular
interest is displayed concerning the re-
suit and an active canvass is being
made. At present it seems probable
that the Republican State ticket will be
elected in Ohio and that the Democrats
may succeed in securing a majority in
the Legislature. The struggle for the
Legislature has become sort Of contest
over SHERMAN, who insists upon re-elec-
ton and is making the issue personal
to himself He is not very popular
and can hardly be said 10 command the
entire strength aud confidence OF his
party and the fact of his candidacy adds
something to the chances of the success
of the Democratic legislative ticket.
The contest in Pennsylvania derives
some additional interest from the indl-
cation it will afford Of the electoral vote
of that State next year. The GRANT
party has been making strenuous ex'
ertions to secure a Republican triumph
ard has made free use Of all the usual
appliances to that end. Upon the other
hand, the Democrats, without the in.
fluence and the material aid that the
possession of Office gives, have been
making very vigorous and judiciously
conducted campaign, and at present'the
scale seems pretty evenly balanced.
We will not be surprised should Penn
sylvania give a Democratic majority
next Tuesday; we think the prospect
looks fair; but we would not advise any,
body to be! very heavily upon it just
yet.
And in connection with the time o.
holding these elections we have sug'
gestion to make to the Constitutional
Convention soon to assemble in this
State. The elections in Pennsylvania
and Ohio exert at present a powerful
influence upon that in West Virginia.
Being held about two weeks prior to
that in this State, they not merely fore.
shadow but to a certain extent contro!
the result of the voting here. Intelli'
gence of the fresh triumph Of the sue
cessFul party is disseminated throughout
West Virginia just upon the eve of our
own election; one party is elated and
the other discouraged; and thus the
moral influence Of the majority Of the
people OF Pennsylvania and Ohio may
carry an election in this State, not
withstanding the questions at issue
there and here may be as widely dii-
ferent as possible and the interests of our
people Numerically opposed to theirs
1t is as if half of the State voted on one
day and the other half on another To
remedy this, let the Consti tuition be 80
amended as to fix the State election in
West Virginia on the same day as that
in Pennsylvania and Ohio; the second
Tuesday in October instead OF the
fourth Thursday as now.
1t WAS to obviate the very disadvant,
ages under which we have been
laborlng, that the day OF the presidential
election has been made the same in all
the States. And beside preventing one
Stale from exercising an undue moral
influence over another, the opportuni'
ties for fraud are much diminished by
having common election day. There
would be much less chance for the sue.
cessful colonization of voters" between
West Virginia and our neishboring
States, if all voted at the same time,
than there is now, and our border
counties and theirs would be less ex.
posed to the Eruption OF repeaters.
We trust that when the Constitutions
Convention meets it may consider the
propriety OF making the suggested
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