The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-10-20
The Recent Elections.

w + nave no DeSIlatlOn III saying tndl
after the results of the recent elections in
the States to which we will hereafter refer,
no man of any political sagacity or foresight;
can any longer doubt or question the tri-
umphant election of Tilden and Hendricks
on the 9Th day of November next. We
need not waste either time or paper i'll re-
/ ferriug to the recent victories i'll Georgia
I and Arkansas as they are certain to cast
! their electoral votes for the Democratic
I candidates for President and Vice Presi-
/ dent for although the Radical ne xspapers
/ and stun p orators of that party assert that
the rebels, as they choose to denominate the
! Democrats of the South, overawed and in
timidated the negro voters, the truth is, as
the result in both States proves beyond a
doubt, that thousands of negroes voted the
Democratic ticket for the simple reason
that they have discovered from bitter ex-
perience that their worst enemies are the
corrupt and rapaeious carpet-baggers,
whose game is wholesale plumber and rob-
berry of the negroes themselves. Expert
enee is a severe but wholesome teacher, as
well in private as in political affairs, and
the negro voters, taught i'll the merciless
school of oarpet-bag infamy and plunder.
are determined to assert their constitutional
prerogatives and vote for the men in their
own States who will protect them in their
legal rights instead of filching from them
their hard earnings to advance the political
fortunes of thieves and scoundrels Of every
hue. So much, briefly stated, in regard to
Georgia and Arkansas, whose glorious ex-
ample every other Southern State, with the
exception perhaps of South Carolina, will
be sure to follow on the 7th of November
next.
And now for the glorious northwest, the
seat of political empire. Ohio, the home of
Hayes, has substantially repudated his
pretensions to the Presidency, and in point
of fact gives a Democratic victory. That
State has been Republican for many years
by majorites ranging from tcenty to forty
and even one hundred thousand. But the
political sceptre has at last departed from
Israel and the Republican State ticket has
a beggarly majority of only about sir M0us-
and. The Democrats are full of vigor and
fight, and they proclaim 30 their brethe-n in
all other parts of the Union that they will
give Tilden and Hendricks the vote of the
State, at the coming election.
Let us now turn our eyes to Indiana, the
home of Hendricks. How great aud glo-
rions and how satisfactory it is to have an
honest, capable and pure gentleman like
Thomas a. Hendricks associated on the
same ticket with Samuel J. Tilden The
result of the election in that State is the
highest and most emphatic compliment
that could be paid to Governor Hendricks.
Republican papers may sneer and carp at
him, as they are doing, but the fact still re-
mains that the result in Indiana is an hon
est, unbought endorsement of her noble
son. All honor then to Thomas A Hen.
dricks--a man who stands before the people
of the entire Union as pure and unim.
peachable patriot. 1t was Hendricks own
State, noble and well deserving Indiana,
that Morton selected as the battle ground
on which to stake the political fortunes of
Hayes for President, and the result of that
decision has been the election of a sound
old Democrat, "Blue Jeans Williams, the
farmers and workingman's candidate for
Cove rnor, by majority of little less than
five thousand.
or West Virginia the story we have to
tell is of the same nature. The victory
achieved by the Democrats and conserva-
tives of that State is the most decisive they
have ever won, the majority for Governor
and the other candidates on the State ticket
being from nine to troeloe thousand
Thus hasit come to pass that no sane man
can for a moment honestly question the tri-
umph in November next of Tilden and
Hendricks, whose election will be the fore.
runner of peace, happiness and prosperity
to all sections of the country.