New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-10-14
TIE ELRCT,ons-.GAars,

A very simple statement dsposes Of the impu-
dent attempt Of our desperate Opposition jour
nalists to cxtort Democratic gains" fIvn the
returns of the recent elections.
PENNSYLVANIA was VIGOROUSLY carried for
Curtin last gear by the votes oil soldiers iur-
Laughed from camp. hospital, &c. and sent
homo TO vote. and could not have been carried
otherwise. Perhaps thousand Department
clerks at Washington and other employs oi INC
Government went home for q like purpose; but
the Army vote did the business. Now, this vote
* cast Wherever the soldiers may be, and, OF
course. yanishes from the Home poll to reappcar
in the returns from tho camps in front OF
Petersburg aud Richmond. tho hospitals around
Washington and Baltimore &C.. &c. THIS Is
the sole and utterly delusive basis OF tho CLAIM
we are exposing.
OF course, the great Republican strongholds
Allegheny, Lancaster, Chester. Indiana. Brad
ford. Erie, txc.-have not pollcd out their full
vote. lii mos, of them. the opposition TO the
Union tickets was merely nominal, and you call
not draw out full vote when ~ palpuble eud Is
to be subserved thereby. Berks. on the other
hand, was contested inch by inch. and her iuii
strength called ont. Sowitb Luzcrne and most
of the C,pperhead stfongholds. Even in the
sterile XIth District where the Unionists stood
no chance of electing any one, the vote polled
is full one.
Now. the Opposition journalists know these
facts-know that Allegheny will give 5000 and
! Lancaster 1000 more majority for Lincoln neyf
month than they have now done. while Berks,
Wayne, &C., Gun do nothing To conntervail
this increase; yet they maunder over then
huInbug gains as if they did not know theirs
gone case. But they do know it. and only
talk a. they do because they must not seem Il
give UP the contest. Yet they are clearly
conscious that they arc "gone up" and who
ever is accustomed to serutinize them closely
must see il.
| Consider their dealings with ONO. That
Slate gave last year the unprecedented majority
Of Sixty Thousand Oh the Home besides Forty
Thousand on her Soldiers vote, simply AUD
solely becau,o Vallaudigham was the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor. Bot for this,
they conld not have been beaten Fifty Thou
sand. Gov. 3rough's rote, in '63. exceeded
that for President Lincoln. in 1860, by more
! than Fiity-seven Thousand, while Valan'
digham's iel below tie aggregate poll OF Mr.
Lincoln's opponents by less than Twenty-fon'
thousand. The Ohio vote for Governor las'
year exceeded. by more than T~enry.thres
Thousand. the highest ever polled Tor PrcSden'
"A result wholly without parallel We pre-
sumo the vote Just cast falls Finy thousand
below that of last year And herein IL the
sole basis of the pretense of Democratic gains.
! But INpIASA--why not blunt their pencils in
manipulating her retuinsl There has been o
very great vote polled, the Soldier vote wa.
precladed; the Opposition did their ven is'-f
yct they are ron'ed as no party was ever before
routed in Indiana. The Union majority " un
precedeniedi VIC gain largely everywhere and
;.s every ticket; there ia not ray OF hope. q
cruub Of comfort, for the discomiited, they had
no resource at first but to distrust the rcsurns;
and even this has since fslled them. Their only
refuge is in blank kicnce--in dumb despair
Gentlemen opposite you are laid out, and
we'll you know It Y6u have not a chance lcit,
Keep up show Of fight. IL you will; but cop.
slider your position. and refrain from persisinp
in the doceits and knayeries which. at all times
unjustifable, are boreit OF excuse by the mora
certainty tina, further resort 70 them will bach
the paliation even Of hope.