Year: 1871

Hale Elected but the "OId
/ SheII' Busted.


The returns from the Senatorial cleo


ton in this District indicate the election
of Major Henry S. Hale by about 2S2
majority.


According to present reports, Hlck-
man county, gave Hale 419 majority ;
Graves gave him 300 while Fulton gave
CLARK 437 majority, which leaves Hale a
majority of 2S2 in the District.


Major Hale, the Senator elect. as we
repeatedly declared during the canvass,
is clever, high-ton gentleman, man
of first rate ability, aud barring some
impolitic ideas in regard to accepting
the situation" which we trust ne may be
happily delivered of, will make a most
excellent representative. We shall OBJ
serve his course with no unfriendly eye,
anxious to commend, and if possible,
assist him to usefulness for the District
During the canvass he bore himself as a
gallant, courteous gentleman, winning
the admiration of his opponents as well
as of his supporters.


Capt. Clark, though defeated, has
made brave and gallant race, and his
supporters will ever remember his bold
and earnest canvass with feelings of pride
and satisfaction. 1t was his misfortune
to have arrayed actively against him
class of strong local politicians in Hick
man and Graves counties, whose exer-
tions compassed his defeat. We charge
no man with wrong, but it is none the
less true, that impressions found circu-
lation in different portions of the District,
that Clark was Radical or in some way
adopted by the Radicals to defeat Hale
We refer to this as matter of record,
and to do justice to Capt. Clark, as true
a democrat as breathes. At Hickman
some 40 negroes voted for Clark, while
at Columbus, about 175 voted solidly for
Hale This is a set off and all right;
but we ask the people, how and why it
was that the report covered the entire
district on the day of election, that the
"negroes and Radicals were voting solid
ly for Clark p Clark is not now in the
way, and public opinion should do him
justice. He is true democrat, a worthy, |
able, and clever gentleman, and for four
years as gallant Confederate soldier as
fought beneath the stars and bars; and it
is impossible for him to be anything but
democrat, and when the excitement in
cident to this election is passed, all will
so acknowledge him.


1t is also a fact of melancholy regret
that Capt Clark was called from the
canvass the week before the election by /
the illness and death of one his children,
which deprived bis friends of his active
efforts just at the time they were most
needed.


The liberal democracy of this District I
though defeated by small majority, I
have, nevertheless, in our opinion won
glorious and solid triumph. Major Hale
because of personal friendship and per-
sonal popularity, attached to himself
some of the strongest and most inau-
entail liberal democrats in the District, /
sucl1 for instance as Judge Lindsay, 7
Judge Boon, Capt. Randle, and others,
who though endorsing Clark's position on /
the question of negro testimony, voted /
for Hale because of personal friendship
Bring the contest to a fair and square
issue, and none viii now deny but that
the liberal democracy would sweep the
District. Public men can not fail to I
see this, and We now predict, that no
candidate will ever again oppose these
live issues on the stump in this Senate
rial District. The cold Bourbon shell |
is busted, and consigned to the tomb of
the dead past.