The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-12 00:00:00

NEW ENGLAND STATES.

Maine .. ...
Vermont ...

Rhode Island ...

Now York .
Ohio ~.
Delaware
West Virginia

Indiana
lowa ...
Kentucky ...
Missouri ...
Michigan ...
Minnesota ...

Tot

California

• 7 New Hampshire ... 5
... 5 Massachusetts ... 12
... 4 Connecticut ... 6 39
MIDDLE STATES.
• 33 New Jersey
.. 21 Pennsylvania
• 3 Maryland
... 5

WESTERN STATES.
... 13 Illinois ...
... 8 Kansas ...
... n Tennessee ...
... 11 Nebraska ...
... 8 Wisconsin ...
... 4

... 7

... 26
... 7

11 CIFIC STATES.
... 5 Oregon ...

... 15
-. 3

10
3
8

... 3

Nevada.. 3
These 27 States, constituting the "North,"
have, therefore, a total elev oral vote of
" RECONSTRUCTED " SOUTHERN STATES.
North Carolina 9 South Carolina 6
Georgia 9 Florida 3
Alabama ... 8 Louisiana ... ... 7
Arkansas 5
" UNRECONSTRUCTED " SOUTHERN STATES.
40 Mississippi

Virginia
Texas

Total number of the Electoral College

316

The London Times in a good article on the sub-
ject s tys :—lt is generally supposed that Grant and
Colfax will be successful at the approaching elec-
tion, and thus give a new triumph to the Republican
party. According to the elections as they have

heretofore been decided in the several American
States, if there has been no change that can add
any weight to the Democratic side, the Republi-
cans will choose the majority of the electoral votes.
Within the past year elections have been held in every
American State, and in the following statement will
be found the side that each will take and the num-
ber of its electoral votes, provided the next election
be decided the same way as the last one. The
North is separated from the South in this state-
ment :

REPUBLICAN ELECTORAL VOTES.

Maine
Vermont
Rhode Island...
West Virginia

Illinois ...
Kansas ...
Missouri ...
Michigan ...
Minnesota ...

No RTII.

7 New Hampshire ... 5
5 Nlassachusetts ... 12
4 Ohio ... ... ... 21
5 Indiana ... ... 13
15 lowa

• 3 Tennessee ...
. 11 Nebraska
8 Wisconsin ...
. 4 Nevada ...
SOUTH.
9 Louisiana ...
• 6 Georgia
5 Florida ...
~ 10

North Carolina
Texas ...
Arkansas
Virginia

... 10
... 3

... 7

- - 9
..•

- - 3
•..

Total Republican Vote ... ... ...
DEMOCPATIC ELECTORAL VOTES.
NORTH.
... 6 New York ...
... 7 Pennsylvania
... 3 Maryland
... 11 California

Connecticut ...
New Jersey ...
Delaware
Kentucky
Oregon ...

Alabama.

Tota.

• 33
• 26

--
- 7
•••

---
5
...

Mississippi

SOUTH.
... 8 South Carolina ... 6

... 7

-122
- 72

Total Democratic vote
Republican majority ...
But a change of less than 10,000 in the popular
vote will turn the vote to the Democratic side,
6,000 giving Indiana, 2,000 New Hampshire, and
13,000 Ohio. The Times considers that " Kansas,
Nebraska Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and
Florida quoted as Republican—are as nearly ba-
lanced, but these three are sufficient to elect Sey-
mour by six majority in the College. For two years
the tide has been running that way, and if it con-
tinues, the folly will be shown, once again, of con-
sidering future success assured because there has
been success in the past. In this connexion neither
the merits of the candidates, nor of the parties sup-
porting them, is considered, attenticn being only
drawn to the nearly even balance of the parties,
which at the elections above referred to showed that
the Republican total in the popular vote of the
North was very little greater than the Democratic
total. Whether the tide is still running as it has
done, however, there will be plenty of opportunity
to discover before the final test comes. Maine
holds a State election in September, so does Cali-
fornia ; and Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and
others vote for State officers iu October." It
asserts that the country is so large that parties
can support different and opposite politics in widely
separated sections. " The Democrats will preach
Free Trade in the West and Protection in the
East; the Republicans will do likewise. The De-
mocrats on the Atlantic seaboard will forget their
platform, and point the bondholders to Seymour's
speeches favouring gold payment ; while in the
West they will preach the greenback gospel to the
echo. The Republicans in the East will, in the
same way, talk of fidelity to the national obliga-
tions, while in the Mississippi Valley their orators
will quote Thaddeus Stevens and General Butler to
show that good faith means greenbacks. . . .
These, however, are what may be regarded as
the side issues of the contest—questions about
which each party is itself divided in opinion. The
great issues of the election are two—whe-
ther there shall or shall not be be universal negro
suffrage, and whether the reconstruction of
the South according to the Congressional plan
shall or shall not stand. Grant represents the
affirmative of these questions, and Seymour the