The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-21
OUR7WASHINETON LETTER !,
Washington, D. g., Sept. is, 1876.
THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS.

THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS. ).
On the 4th of next month, Georgia
will elect Governor. As that State is
so overwhelmingly Democratic, the peo.
pie of other States evince very little in
terest in the election there; taking it for
granted that, the usual Democratic ma.
| jority will be polled, or that, at any rate,
it will not be sufficiently reduced to in.
dicate possible vote in November for
Mr.. Hayes. On the 10th Of next month,
however, elections ssill be held, inE Colo:
RADIO, Indiana.. Toys, m ebraska. ohioahd
West Virginia sand intense anxiety is
exhibited all over the Union on the re-.
suit in those States. At the present wri.
ting, it looks as if Indiana Ohio and
West Virginia will 60 Democratic; al
though the vote may be very close, espe.
pecially in Indiana and Ohio and that
the Republicans will carry Colorado, To-
wa and Nebraska. But these State elec.
tions, although not to be ignored in esti-
mating probabilities, are not entitled to
| the consideration usually awarded them.
Local issues, unknown to outsiders, often
produce majorities in the September and
October elections that are reversed in the
following November. For example, al
though the Democracy carried Indiana,
in the State election of 1872, by 1,148
majority, Grant carried it, a month after,
by 22,516. In some y of. the Western
States, the lager beerquestion is prom
inent local issue; and many of the brew
ers have combined to protect themselves
from State legislation adverse to their in
terests. They will therefore oppose, tooth
and nail, any candidate, of whatever par.
ty, whom they suppose to be "a prohibi-
zionist. The feeling in the Westis. also
strong and growing against Sunday legis-
lation and, the Americans, lin that sec
tion, are getting toN bes AsA fierce assahe
Germans for the sabolftiSn fof Sunday
laws. On all these local issues, the Dem.
ocratic candidates for State Offices are
with the brewers and their friends, and
will receive their votes. But, as the Fed
eral Government has nothing TO do with
these issues, it may happen, as in Indi-
ana, in '72, that the vote in November
may be of an opposite complexion. It
behooyes us, therefore, in our efforts TO
elect Tilden and Hendricks; to ignore
these local questions which may be par
amount in the October elections, and to
con6ne ourselves to those of national i'm.
portance.. it3'
Let US not mince matters on this sub
ject. 1t is too important to be trifed
with. This is about the situation, now,
in all the Western States. There is q
strong and pronounced sentiment that
the present Administration has been
derelict in its duty to the people. The
people understand very we'll that the
war, primarily, brought about the hard
times; but, for all that, the idea widely
prevails that if the Administration had
done its whole duty, the country need
not and would not-have been-in.its pres
ent woful predicament; and there is no
! doubt that, under he circumstances, If the
people had entire confidence in the HON
esty of purpose and in the patriotism Of
the Democracy and their candidate, the
Democratic ticket would be elected be-
yond a doubt all over the West But
while the Republicans are flooding the
country with false charges against Mr..
Tilden of disloyal utterances and acts
during the war, of having defrauded the
Government, of having issued, in Mich
igan, to his workmen, in violation ofilaw,
paper money which he refused to redeem,
Of having been the friend and adherent
of Tweed until long after the crimes of
the latter were brought to light by the
New York Times, Republican sheet
while these printed ISLANDERS are industri-
ously circulated, by the million. all over
the country, by the. Republican National
Committee, aud are in the hands of eve
ry man, woman and child, the Democrat
| ic National Committee and Mr.. Tilden's
personal friends have, for some reason or
other, neglected to refute them satisfac-
torily- and, in some instances, have
not replied to them at all. t.
If the friends of Mr.. Tilden could be
made to understand that the millions of
elaborately prepared pamphlets, contain
ing these unanswered ISLANDERS on our
standard-bearer, are working incalcula-
BILE mischief all over the country, they
| would certainly cause them to be author
atively denied, and to be proved to be
false, at the earliest possible moment.
There is little doubt Notwithstanding all
this culpable renlissness, of glorious
victory in November but it is as we'll to
make assurance doubly sure.
THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR Gov
ERNoR OF NEW YORK.
We are all glad, in Washington, that
the Democrats of New York have at
length got a candidate for Governor,
Hon. Lucius Robinson, upon whom the
various elements of the party in the State
will unite. MI. Robinson is man of
high personal character, and has proved
himself, in the responsible position of
Comptroller of the State, which he now
holds, to be man of good judgment and
rare executive ability. The fact that he
was Mr.. Tilden's second choice for the
position gives assurance that he will
strengthen the Presidential ticket. 1t
was thought here that Mr.. Dorsheimer,
the candidate for Lieutenant Governor,
would secure the first place on the ticket.
as he was understood to be Mr.. Tilden's
first choice. Both Mr.. Robinson and DR..
Dorsheimer were, until recently, Repub-
licans, and their nomination to the first
two positions of honor in the State will
secure to the Democratic ticket large
Liberal" vote.
| THE CENTENNIAL.