Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-10-14
ALEX. AND8IAs
TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER IA, 1929

Some wag has Deen amusing himelf BY Our,
ziny the editors Of the Alexandra Pherix e,
zetie with Iudicrous estimate Of the prob,b.
state Of the vote in the several electoral di,,;..
of Virginia, the sum of which is tina, G,ns,s
Jackson's majority in the whole State will m,
exceed 1850 votes! To give the reader som.
idea of the degree of confidence to which hi,
calculation is entitled, we will barely refe, IN
his estimate Cor this and two adj jacen, ds,rjc,.
In the District Of Frederick, Hampshire, and
Morgan, this shrewd calculator has he modes.
~ TO claim for The administration majuriry II
100 votes. while in Loudoun, Berkeley and I,s
ferson. no less will serve him than 800! Now
let US look AT single item on the credi, side az
the account: In Shenandoah, Rockingham and
Pendleton we are put off with 500, when every
candid man, who knows any thing about tie
district will admit that our majority will ex.
coed double the number. In these three dis.
tric,s alone we will venture 10 predict that III.
estimate Of the Gazette is too partial 10 the adj
ministration by largely upwards of loco votes
The editors Of the Gazette, who seem 10 b.
| considerably elated with The prospects of the
administration in Virginia, accompany the es.
innate 10 which we have referred by an admis
sion for which we tender them our thanks: iii,
this, thar "if there is State in the Union that
Is doubtful, it is Virginia" We copy it, tina.
our friends may understand how doubtful the
yole of Pennsylvania really is, when the organs
Of the administration assert that tina, Of Virg,
MIA is still more SO -Wnches'er Vugn.
The Jackson men in Virginia are astonished
when they see calculations made, which show
that the State is not to be set down as certain
for the Hero. They have been so long in The
hahi, of making broad and off:hard assertions
of their Overwhelming strength, of the "uuer
hoprlessness of opposition" and all Ina, sort Of
thing, that they can hardly think it possible
these assertions can be controver,ed. Hence
| they talk Of the estimate we published of the
| probable vote of the State, as 'ludicrous.' Now
| if we were backed with Senator Eaton's con,in.
gent fund, we would be willing TO stake lhe
whole Of il, that the estimate referred TO BY The
Virginian, will come nearer 10 the truth, when
the state Of the polls are known, thar any jack.
SON calculation that has yet been made Lou.
doun, Jefferson, and Berkeley, will give a,gS
majority for the Administration than soo-Ws
have thousand majority. lnjeed the Western
counties. generally, will TELL well upon thr day
Of trial; and, IN The three districts mentioned,
we, too, will venture to predict, tina: the est'
maze we published will not err in the counting
OF Jackson's strength.
II. '""'i' -, md it 0an n" longer be denied
thar Virginia is doubtful State. The Jark,
sonl'es have all along seen claiming four, Eve,
and six thousand msjority. When i, is ma,
nifesr, from every circumstance, tina, their
strength has failed, is ling. and will fail-lhey
strive to ridieuIe The idea that they fear any
thing from their opponents. This i, the frs,
symptom Of disquie.u6e. 1t shows they are
alarmed, when they are not willing to acknow.
ledgeit.