Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-27
NO. 4.
Presidential

| From an article in that sound and vigorous
paper, the Chicago Press and Tribune, on
| Presidential matters which contains much thai
| is good for doctrine, for reproof and for conso
lation, we extract the following statement O
electoral votes and the States that the RepubIi
cans must carry to elect their candidate. The
chart of the voyage certainly offers nothing to
discourage Republicans, but enough to inspire
them with the confidence necessary to make q
good fight:
The next question is one of such practical
import that it has already suggested itself to
every rejecting mind: What man can carry
the five Northern States which Fremont lost
or a sufficient number of them to make ma
jority of the electoral college? The States are
New Jersey, Pennsylvania Indiana, Illinois
and California. Minnesota and Oregon have
come into the Union since the election of 1856,
Kansas will doubtless come in before that of
1860. The whole number of electoral votes,
Kansas excluded is 3 3. of which 152 are re-
quired to elect a President If we include
Kansas the whole number is BOG, and a ma
jority 1874 There is every reasonable proba-
bility that all the States which voted for FIRE.
mont will vote for the Republican candidate
next year, to wit: the six New England States,
New Y ork, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and
Iowa. IA electoral votes. Minnesota is rea-
sonably sure to do the same, adding four votes
total lis. We must still have 81 votes, Gf
We do not make calculations on the admission
of Kansas,) to come from New Jersey, Penn
sylvania, Indiana, Illinois, California and Ore
gon. We can hope for nothing from the Pa
cific States. California is against US in the
matter of votes, and Oregon in the matter Of
canvassers. New Jersey and Pennsylvania
will exactly give us the required "a. New
Jersey, Indiana, Illinois and Kansas, though
holding "a votes would fail of giving us a ma
iority, because the admission of Kansas would
raise the constitutional majority to l54, and
require SO votes in addition to those which
were given to Fremont.
The practical question then is, who can car
ry Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Or who can
carry Pennsylvania alone? The ticket which
can secure the twenty-seven votes of the Key
stone State will be measurably sure to carry
either New Jersey or Indiana, or Illinois,
We think ticket can be made and will be
made which will secure Illinois beyond per-
adventure. Senator Douglas was beaten some
four thousand votes on the popular vote last
fall-sufficient evidence that Illinois is field
to be cultivated by the next National Repub-
lican Convention. The question rccurs, Who
can carry Pennsylvania, without weakening
the Republican strength in New jersey, Indi-
ana and Illinois The general soictude is
not concerning the ninety and nine sheep that
went not astray, but rather the one or half
dozen that we're lost in the wilderness.
While answers to the questions we have pro-
posed are being sought out by the light of rea-
son and in friendly comparison of views, we
recommend tie friends of the respective candi-
dates to argue their cases with becoming mo-
desty to turn their attention away from the
claims of this or that statesman and to present
rather their probabilities ofsuccess. This is the
consideration which will determine the isste
and the result be still the same, whether they
contine TO press their favorites upon the dtten-
ton of the people, or leave the people to find
them out in due time.