Year: 1865


whole Independent Ticket Elec.


ted.


We have received ell the returns from
this County, except from Wolf River
Township. The entire Independent tick
ct is elected. by msjorit:ss ranging from
200 to 800. except Tracy. who has bot
80 to so majority. Rsppelys runs far
ahead Of his ticket. and Lsrzelere far be-
hind his. So decided were the people
Against the Convention movement, that
candidates on the Independent ticket.
adopted from the Convention ticket. fell
far short of receiving the united vote OF
both parties; and we are now convinced.
that had the Independents run an entire
separate ticket, every man nominsted by
the Convention would have been badly
beaten.


We rejoics at this result. The csndi-
dates on both tickets were good enough
Republicans; but had the Convention
party succeeded, it would have plsced the
politics and the management OF County
affairs into the hands of clique who
would have fattened at the expense of the
people, and ridden the County to death.
The movement was initiated by raising q
cry of corruption against faithful Repub.
lican officers. who have managed affairs
with marked ability. The question Of
personal hatred against two Of the officers
entered largely into the Issue, and these
two men were slandered. denounced and
abused worse than we have ever heard a
convicted felon denounced. But their
character has been nobly vindicated, and
their trsducers signally rebuked, by the
independent people. This work Of at
tempting to displace competent for the
benefit of incompetent men. and to graft
fyamean spite Of individuals. was carried
on in the name of the Republican party.
and the party lash was used to drive the
people into ratifyiug the schemes of a
miserable clique, composed of men ready
to ride any popular hobby. and to sell out
those who elected them, for their own
private benefit. They expected. under
the garb of Republicanism,J to carry the
County; then they would have set up the
claim that they controlled public senti-
ment: that anything desired to be accom-
plished here must be through them /; and
al the patronage and gratuities which as.
pirsnts had to bestow upon the County.
to win favor, would have been divided
among their select ring. The triggers
for this were set as early IS last Winter,
and huge calculations were made with re-
gard to tbs election year hence. This
election would place the County at their
mercy, and next year, they would have
only to parcel out the places among them
selves. Well may the people rejoice at q
result which saves them from an incubus,
in comparison with which. the infiction
of the Blair Family upon the White
House. or the Camden and Amboy Rail.
road upon New Jersey, are as peaches
and cream to castor oil and asafoetida.
AS to our part of the Offices. we only
consented to run because those who had
examined the ground contended that it
would be for the best; and we would not
advise others to engage in work from
which wo shrank. If the people had not
declared SO emphaticslly against him,
and there was legal way to make the
transfer, Brother Bennett might have the
office in welcome; for q sojourn Of two
months at the Capital is neither pleasant
nor profitable to Us, and we would great
ly prefer to remain at home and attend to
the business upon which we depend for q
living. -.,