The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-09-13
The News From Name.

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Even the most enthusiastic Republican
can hardly be CXultant over the news
IRON Maine, for he must have been the
most crCdulOus or the most timOrOus Of
men who look Tor anything different from
that which this morning brought us. The
IriJuHe and the World OF yesterday
morning were cautious enough to give
their readers hints that they were not to
expect much from Maine, though they
neither Of them had the tranknCss and
manlinCss to say that there would be about
the usual Republican majority, because
Republicans and Democrats were in
about the same relative numbers as here
toIorc, ltsuitcd them better to say that
the State would only be kept to It's old
position by iraud-in other words, that
the Republicans Of Maine were such dolts
or knavcs that they were prevented IRON
abandoning their party only by compul-
sion or bribery. They could not, however,
escape the conclusion, to which everybody
else had come, that the result Of yester-
days election in Maine would be what
the telegraph to-day reports it.
The Republicans have swept everything
before them. They have chosen the Gov.
Crnor, the legislature, and all the mem.
bers OF Congress. AS II general result it
is utterly disastrous TO the Greeley cause.
OI course, the Greeley papers will try to
make the best OF it, and attempt to show
by ingenious combinations of figures that
there has been great Republican loss
and corresponding Democratic gain.
These combinations may be worth cxam-
lining, perhaps, as arithmerCal problems,
when we get all the figures; but, mean
while the great fact can not be ciphcred
away that the Republicans have carried
everything, and that in districts where the
Greeley people thought they had the best
chance OF gaining votes from the Repub-
Iican party, there the Republican MAORI.
~ is increased.
In the Fifth district, for instance, there
were two candidates taken from the Re.
publican party, Mcssrs. Hale and Pike.
Pike was the Greeley nominee; brother
Of his was Tor years the Washington cor.
respondent OF the Tribune; through Tri.
5gHs influence lie was sent Minister to the
Hague; and the Pixies and the friends Of
the Pixies, owe special allegiance To
Greeley. All which made the Pike nomi.
nation peculiarly significant; the most
sanguine hopes were indulged in regard
to it, and il was made matter OF pride
with the Pike faction that he should make
great inroads on the Republican vote.
The disappointment is all the more bitter
that here where they expected most to
dazzle, they are most tOrlOrn; that where
they expected to come out best they come
ont worst. llale's majOrityis somewhere
from 1000 TO $500 over Pike, aud this is
500 10 l,2OO greater than the Republican
majority for Congressman in 1868 Such
u laCt Is utterly disheartening; for it is
clear that where Grecleyism made special
c! inns in that district To the good will of
the people, there the people have taken
the most special pains TO IniliCt upon it
the most significant punishment.
- far us the figures go as they are now
before us. we come to these conclusions
Taking ISIS rs the inircst comparison,
when the Republican majority was 1925,
the majority this year is estimated 10 be
reduced somewhere between 5000 and
i 900 votes. But the aggregate vote in
lsGS was nearly 1872 900; whereas the vote
n this election is estimated to be about
l25OO0 This difference in the aggregate
vote will make corresponding reduction
in the loss on the majority, so that il will
not be, probably, more than 1000 As.
Suming this us the figure, then 1000 Re-
publiC;us voters in Maine have voted TOR
Mr Greeley.
His party cannot make any greater ex.
CXtinns anywhere else than they have in
that State; with this dIshcartening result
they cannot even repeat those efforts. A
political campaign without spirit and
without hope is rs little cXhilerating as Il
funeral procession. To that complexion
the Greeley campaign has come already,
and it will wind its slow length along 10
the end, alter that solemn and disCour.
aging fashion, unless some altogether un.
iOrCsccn combination OF circumstances
shall work Il change.