The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-10-19
The Elections.

hardest fought since the organization
of the Republican party. With all
the corruptions hanging like a lepro.
sy upon the opposition party; with
theadvancemcnt Of dishonest officials
to high positions; with pardons fol-
lowing almost every criminal convic-
ton; with the threat of the bayonet
hanging over nearly half the area of
the country to influence elections;
with enormous taxations and waste
full expenditures; with a depressed
trade owing mismanagcmcnt of the
Govcrnmcnt-we say, with all these
our opponents had a hard fight to
maintain their strength and position.
By honest and fair means itcould not
be done. and they knew it. The on
ly recourse was that which they had
pursued in the conduct of the Gov
ernment, and on that they were con-
fident of success. Assessments on
Government officials of 2 per cent.
were made which were expended in
Indiana, winding up witha purchase
of the Greenback candidate,
Ohio was SO surely counted on for
$4,000 majority, that little attention
was paid to it in the excitement over
Indiana; but all at once they discov-
crd that the people were awakening
TO true sense of the condition ofour
national affairs, and the indications
were, that unless speedy and energet-
icehofts We're made the State would
be lost TO-. them-the carrying of
which was the main point in nomin-
ating Hayes for President. State
pride, Hayes asserted popularity,
and the heretofore firm adhesion Of
Ohio TO the Republican party in all
elections in the Presidential year
seemed to preclude the possibility Of
defeat. But the party's sins were
great-great in omission and COM
mission-and the State was about to
eludc them. They saw this, and
with superhuman efforts, worthy Of
noble and better cause, they threw
all their force and brought every
power into play. And yet, with all
this, their majority is such as tc
make Thorn hang their heads and
recognize it as victory worse than
defeat.
Exhausted in purse, cnervated in
power, crushed in their ambitious
hopes, with no longer a small space
into which to concentrate the little
vigor that may remain, both Indiana
and Ohio may be counted almost safe
for the Dcmocracy-certainly it will
be so if the Government presumes to
control the election in the South by
the use of the bayonet. This course
may gain them two Southern States
but 1t is certain to lose them Ohio
To probably retain Ohio, they must
leave the South alone, in which cast
Tilden will carry them all, and Their
he will have his calling and elect
ion sure"
West Virginia which went Rcpub
lican for Grant, has wheeled into lint
with q good Democratic majority, t.
be increased in November,
Just here it might be encouraging
to say that, in the estimate of tn,
electoral vote by the chairman of tn,
National Republican Executive Com
mittee, he places West Virginia ant
Ohio as States certain for Hayes, ant
Indiana as doubtful, These State
are the only ones 50 claimed in which
elections have been held this year
and West Virginia and Indiana hav,
wheeled into the Democratic column
All these States went Republican a
the last Presidential election, Will
these might also be placed anothe
State which Mr.. Chandler claimed II
doubtful--Conneticut, which in he
recent town elections showed larg
Democratic gains.
At the last Presidential clcctio,
the following States cast their vote
for Grant, but at their elections thi
year have gone DCmOcratic-thc
mako n beautiful little pynmic
Oregon, Texas, Alabama, Georgia
Arkansas, Delaware, West Virgins
Connecticut and Indiaua. The Re
publican pyramid is small so fal
and is made up Of Mime, Vernon
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