The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-10-17
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TJyEspAY ToRER IL, 1876.
somewhat bowed.

race, know ID instinctiyeiy and when q
horse under tho lash lets fall his xudder the
involantaTy cry OF the African Is: Oar
now, he tail dun drap.'' So IL appears to
The looker-on that the Radical press is |
,windcd. They do not stand UP SO gnily |
aud gasnciy rs they did two weeks ago.
They don't lie as boldly, nor do they
exhibit Tint GOODNESS OF efrontery which
characterized their partisan strategy during
the canvass previous to the Indiana election.
Evidently that event has done anything else
but cheer these presses. They show that
they are dispirised, and they oungle their
work. Once they were jannty, and now
they are exceedingly awkward. They can
not shake OF the effects Of discontinue.
They have catise for an even greater show
OF disapp ointment and desperation than ap-
pears. Not only has Indiana greatly I'M
paired their prospects and their hopes,
but Ohio has given them very little
more consolation than Indiana. That
State they expected to carry with an
overwhelming victory. 1t il the home OF
HAYES, and then the Democrats had been
defeated there not long ago with the help
sof q religious issue, which it was believed
would exert more influence upon the last
election than it had exerted upon that IN
which HATES was elected Governor. mat
question silenced old Father ALIENS "fog-.
horn, and it was believed had so crippled
sthe Democratic party that it would not
again make fight. But it is found that the
Democrats made such fight that they came
near carrying the State. 1t is evident that
the result is in the hands Of the float
ING mass OF voters, who never fail to be on
the winning side when they know which
side that is. And now the results in In
diana and Ohio tell them which side that is,
and on that side they are sure to go. Were
we betting man we would sooner bet that
TItpEN would carry Ohio than that HAYES
would.
y This idea has q Judgment in the minds OF
the Radical orators as we'll as editors, and it
tells efEectually upon them. 1t has made
the President ss.afraid OF his horses" and
set the whole party to calculating chances.
They all thought that in the single fight
upon Indiana they would beat the Demo-
I Gratis and thus end the agony. But not
: having done that, they are as PROSTATE and
respondent as had they carried Indiana they
would have been elated, audacious, and
aorerbearing.
Everywhere we look the signs Of the truth
. OF W hat we say appear to those who under
1 stand something OF the nature Of the politi-
cal canvass. Evidently the Radica! party
is troubled to know what to do; and there
/ Is much contention rs to what is best to be
done. They are like gang Of burglars
: who have made an unsuccessful effort to
rob storehouse OF valuable things. Each
man bia,nes the other for some mistake or
blunder which brought on the disaster.
Defeat always brings discord and crimina-
! ton and recriminaton among the defeated;
= and clearly we perceive the discord amongst
the defeated Radicals.
One says there has been too much OF the
-sts bloody shirt" Another says there was
not enough OF it; that some prominent ora
tors who were too fastidious to flaunt the
!" bloody shirt" have by failing to do so
passed censure upon those who did, inclu-
ding the great MORTON, who led off in the
only way to victory; for If the Radicals
/. cannot succeed by pursuing the 'sbioody-
shirt" policy they cannot succeed at all.
And yet another partisan says it is the talk
OF introducing the bayonet into the south
ern elections which the people cannot
longer tolerate; and a shreWd Radical with
great spirit denies this assertion, and de-
clares that the blunder was that the bayonet
was not earlier and more extensively intro
gduced That, he contends, was the way to
intimidate and break down the E'rebellon =
against the Republican party!
We are of opinion that those who con-
tend that the " bloody-shirt" and the bayc-
net policy were the only expedients that
could insure Radical victory are right.
III the party in power cannot be continued
in this way they are past the hope OF re-
covery, and must be elected from the places
where they have done almost irrepmable
injury to the nation. But it has been by III
flaming the North against the South, and by
prosecuting and tormenting the South. that
they hold the power OF the nation in their
hands, and it is clear that il the people cam
not be induced to vote for the continuation
OF that policy they cannot be brought to APP
prove the party that practiced it and found
their very life in it.
Z But the fact that these differences and doubts
now agitate the party is enough to show |
that they ere beaten. TO us who oppose |
and loathe the Radical power it matters not
what plan Of campaign may be determined
upon. Il they pursue the bloody-shirt issue
they arc damned passed resurrection, and
IL they give it up they will have abandoned
almost the only vital spark which animates
their body. The same view may be taken |
with regard to the bayonet, for it is only by |
sinfauing the northern mind with hate Of
the South and intimidating the South by
force that the party can prolong its life atall.
In short, the Radical party may now well
be likened to that leader OF the fallen angels
who in desperation cried out:
:. Ne; IN isernble, which way shall N.Y." is
Mr.. MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, who has
recently arrived from London in New York,
is much surprised that nobody in the