Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1858 — CHICAGO TIMES ON THE LATE ELECTIONS. [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO TIMES ON THE LATE ELECTIONS.

The Chicago Times, the leading Douglas organ, has theffollowing in its issue of yesterday morning: Two years .ago the State of Pennsylvania elected fifteen Democrats to Congress—all of then) solemnly pledged to the maintainance of the principles of the Cincinnati platform. When the Lecompton constitution came before Congress a large majority of these opposed it, but, one after another, twelve of them yielded to the seductions placpd before them, and three only maintained their plighted honor. Of thSse twelve bijit two, Florence and Glancy Jones, have been niected, and the means resorted to accomplish that much have, to say the least, been most extraordinary. In the places of the other ten have been elected, in some cases, Democrats, and in others Republicans. We do not now, nor will woever rejoice at'the, election of Republicans over Democrats, but when the men running as Democrats set up, as a test of Democracy, submission to an infamous violation of the. Democratic faith, defeat comes to them without causing any tumultous grief in the bosoms of the men whom they would proscribe. In Ohio, Pendleton is elected by a meagre majority, and Groesbeck defeated. In Indiana, Hughes and Niblack have been defeated, and Davis, Holman and Hovey—Democrats repiWafi ng the new tesb—have’been elected. With the exception of Florence and Clancy Jones (supposing them to have bqen elected) no -democrat indorsing the. new test has be'sn elected to Congress in Ohio, Pennsylvania or Indiana. In each of these States the supporters of the Knglish bill have dwindled down to the office-haiders and their families. The Democracy of the three great States— the people of Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania Wave repudiated the outrage and condemned its supporters with an unanimity most remarkable.