Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1859 — COUNTY ELECTIONS. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY ELECTIONS.

If we are to gain Presidential elections, says the “State Journal,” we must gain county elections first. This is an axiom in political CRinpS'.gn’.Hg as self-evident as that, in military campaigning, an invading army should never leave a fortified post behind it in the hands of the enemy. If we cannot carry local elections, we cannot carry anything else. The whole history of the country certifies to this truth. The tide that runs high and irresietable in a national election, gets its direction in'county elections. Then is the time the water is seeking a course, and the current is soon “set.” If we are to profit by the strength that later in the campaign drives the current rapidly along, we must see that it fs started right; and now is the time it starts. Personal dissensions and local dissatisfaction can do more harm now than in the very heat of a Presidential campaign, for then the strong influences thrown around resist them, while now there is noth--1 ng. . .