The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-11-17
'ELECTTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

ELECIAVN NEW0 AND 0VSSAA
The excitement is luBsidipg. The PEG.
pie, Of all parties, are disposed to wait
quietly for the official returns, and to
submit quietly to the result which they
may indicate.
There Ia talk in Washington OF slectlpg
Mr.. Blaine President Of tho Senate ~ or,
der to make sure Of an able and vigilant
President, In case the Democratic House
should prevent an election By refusing TO
aid In The counting Of the electoral votes.
Peter Cooper sails around expressing
his sympathy for Hayes and Tilden. ~
Ike be says, ito see a man get q big
majority, whether i!s for or ngain't
him. ir-rl IN Tss
The Louisville Courier Journal searched
the Scriptures and dragged the following:
"And all Israel, from Dan to Beersheba,
knew that Samuel was established to be
prophet Of the Lord" Samuel, lii. 20.
The small Republican majority in the
new Illinois Legislature looks bad for
John Logan. Five Independents hold
the balance Of power in the Senate, and
there are II Republican majority in the
House, or only 5 on Joint ballot. The
Republican popular majority IN the State
is now 10000 as against 10000 four years
ago., Tsrls ,-, l-,-s- t'e.r if
The Democratic organs don't agree
about the Presidents order, it Is oncour-
agipg-or discouragipg according to the
one you happen to take up-to see. The
Cincinnati Enquirer rants about l. as
athe browning act Of the Presidential
usurpation; the Utica 0bserer thinks
that 'ex.raordinary circumstances justify
the order" the concluding words. oil which
lie styles swise and patriotic" ..s...
The political complexion Of the COM
ling generation Of educated men seems to
have been distinctly isreshadowed In this
years campaign. The students Of Har-
ward, Yale, and Cornell declared them
selves for the Republican candidates by
i great majorities; and a general canvass of
4 all the principal educational institutions
in the country would doubtless have
Welded similar result. Even the young
ladies at vassar College, who took vote
the other day, stand enthusiastically on
the side Of 1.-THE majority Of young gentle-
men. Their vote footed up: Republi-
cans 250, Democrats 81, and Liberals s.
Tho remaining 10 or 80 had not YET made
up their minds.
II i. were not for the seriousness Of
the thing, the absurdity would strike
paople. It isn't dozen years since the
South was compelled to stay in the Union.
! Now here Is the North waiting to hear
whom the South has elected President.
Four States in the North went against
the other eighteen. They were just
enough TO commit the decision of the
contest to the South. So, within eleven
\ years from tho time when the rebellion
was suppressed, the rebellious States had
1t In their power 10 choose President
who was opposed by all but four Of the
Northern States. This situation might
certainly be called, by chap Of cynical
turn, absurd. Even the "ayerage voter"
will confess that it is rather strange.
as there any tair.minded man." asks
DR., Bellows, "who does not now suspect
that the difficulties in South Carolina aud
Louisiana are inherent, and incurable by
any action Of the Central Government? ~
In his opinion these difficulties proceed
frsm the predominance Of the negro vote.
It is misfortune, he thinks, that those
States are at the political mercy Of a
horde Of recent slaves, still uueducated
:. and barely civilized. He sees parallel
case In the unrest OF the better society Of
the metropolis, over tho political rule Of
her largely untaught and undisciplined
foreign element. 10 him sudden emanci-
|. patton was q dreadful remedy for an
evil with threatened the national exist
: ence. Once freed 1t was necessary TO
clothe the slave with citizenship. He
J could understand why white southerners
were Ill at ease under the rule Of their
recent slaves. But the Constitution and
the fundamental law could not be set
aside. After SO much sacrifice, the peo-
ple could not aand would not go back
from their costly record. haa idh
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