Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1868 — Buckalew and Hendricks. [ARTICLE]

Buckalew and Hendricks.

Among the most noticeable resultsof Tuesday’s election, says the Chicago Tribune T is tl»c defeat of the two ablest and most respectable Democratic Senators—Mr. Btickalew, of -Pennsvlvfmi-V and Mr. Hendricks, of Indiana. * Botli were elected in consequence and as a part of the Democratic victories of 1862. They shared with Horatio Seymour the j fruits of that year of reaction. The “whelming tide” that Mr. Seymour saw at tho New York Convention has now rushed over the heads of ail of them. Buckalew and Hendricks are men of marked ability, and of higher character than the average of their party associates. They had not made themselves obnoxious to the loyal sentiment of the country by extreme Copperheadism during the war. Yet their' personal popularity availed nothing to offset the odium brought upon the party by the New Y ork Convention. If the Democracy cannot win with such men as Buekalcw and Hendricks what fate must | overtake them in other States where Copperheads of the stripe of Eden and Hoffman are put forward as leaders? What fate must be in store for them in the country at large with Soymour and Blair ?