The Lincoln County herald., 1872-11-13
TIE ELECTION
m Rr.iustatement Of the Corrupt ,niSts
Missouri Stands up Boldly fos
Liberalism.

elected for an0ther term W.T. p'e'sJ
has not carrie probably more than s'1
or seven states, among them GeorPia
MARYLAND, Teune.see, Kentucky aud
Missouri, and his vote in the electoral
college will scarcely exceed eighty. lie
is certainly one Of the worst defeated
candidates that ever made the prssiden-
,,al race. even New York going against
him hy 45 900 or more. Various reasons
are civsu by his friends for such result
1t il clear, hosevsr, that the principal
reason Is. that the Democrats could not
or would not unite on him. After the
result of the October elections, ne one
Who knew anything Of the political char
ac,er Of our patton, retained any hope 0i
his election; and many who would other.
wise have acted with the Liberal ele
mcnt. thinking It Of more importance to
he on the winning side than to relieve
the country Of corruption, turned
souarely around aud embraced their first
love again. Had this not been the case,
the victory of the Radicals would not
have been so complete, but even then
there would have been ne show for
Greeley. For, besides the infancy Of the
Liberal movement the Administration
had al the capitalists and the monjed
menopoies on its side, which WELD a
greater influence in this country than all
the patriotism combined.
Congress. as heretofore. will also bs
largely Republican. The Senste will
,tand, Administration 46; Opposition
% The House. the whole number being
292. as far as heard from stands, Admin
is,ration 1872; Opposition l03, with I
yet to be elected which will probably y
be mostly Administration. From this
showing We bavs little to expect either
from Congress or the Executive That
III. policy toward the South will be at
all modds1 we hardly dare to hope.
Snch change hs, been our hearts dc
sire, and it was with this feeling that We
supported the Liberal movement, bsliev.
ing that i, promised more for that sec.
ton than we could otherwise hope tc
OBTAIN.
MISSOURI.
In Missouri we have more Cheerful
returns to record, and though the Demo
cratic majority of this state did no
reach our expectations, it was still large
enough to class her among the banne
Democratic states. Greeleys majorit,
wilt probably amount to 30 900, am
Woodson's 90 even beyond this number
y hundred and two counties give Greele,
majority Of 20 303. Twelve coun
ties remain to be heard from, anon!
them some Of the large., Democrat
coun,:e. in the state. As regards ou
Congressmen, so far the returns indcat
the election Of eight Democrats and fv
Radicals, as follows
First District-E O. Stannrd. Ad.
Second Distr,ct-Erastus Wells, Dem
Third Di.trict-Wm. II. stone, Dem.
Fourth District-R. A. Hatcher, Dem
Fifth District-A. j. Seay, Ad.
Sixth Dlstrict-H. 4. Havens, Ad.
Seventh District II. T. Crittendon, D
Eighth District A Comingo, Dem.
Ninth District Isaac c. Parker, Ad.
Tenth District-lra b, Hide, Ad.
Eleventh Dis,rict-J. B Clark, Jr. d
Twelfth District-John NJ. Glover, n
Thirteenth District-A. II. Bucknsr, D
10 the Legislature the Democrats a,
Liberals are largely in the ascsndanc
The senate sands % D emocrats an1
Radicals the house, Democrats S9, Ra
icals 46, making the majority in Il
house 4G and in the senate 10; MAORI
on joint ballot Sc This secures to VI
Democratic United States Senator, a,
the probability is that Hon, F. p. Bl,
will be returned.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
Our county has go.s Democratic by
large majority as We anticipated, b
net so large as it should There we
full thousand of our voters who d
not 60 TO the polls, among them over .
hundred who were registered, 7
reason for this is that many Of them {,
sure Of the election of the county Dem
cratic ticket. others felt that they We
not in the fight so long as Greeley "
the standard bearer, while 10 the mort
eastern portion Of the county many We
deferred from voting on account OF h
prevalence of that dread disease, the SIN,
Oox faarinu that thcv wnuli cxno