The Portland daily press., 1864-10-15
Mcclellan to be elected BY the Rule of
.ars Thraa.n

McUlellan to be elected BY the Kuie OF
,.fsIrsaassrs7s Three" s,e4 .ss.o
The New York World, failing in its efforts
to carry the elections by ootes, demonstrates
on mathematical principles, that Mcclellan
will sweep all before him in November, prov
ing its propositions by the Single Rule of
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The argument is as follows: from Sept. 1868
to Sept. 1864, the democrats of Maine gained,
say 1900. "As goes Maine SO goes the Union,'
ergo, all other states made during that period
the same relative democratic gain as this
state. Now allowing the same ratio of gain
for the year ending Sept. 18th in Pennsylvania
and Ohio that was made in Maine, it is found
thata very much larger ratio Of gain was made
in those states from Sept. 18th, to Oct. 18th
the day Of their elections-and, of course, the
ratio in these states is the measure of raio for
all other states. This increased ratio is refer
rabIe to the nomination of Mcclellan at Chi
cago. An equal gain is reckoned upon for the
time yet intervening before the November
election. aA N9sBkA - A4asa
The proposition Of the World, therefore, may
be stated thus; s4sEES MIMIC
What the democrats gain the Union men
lose. In palmer words, "their loss is our gain"
Now. then the Union party lost in one year.
measured by the Maine election, say ten per
cent. Their loss as measured by the Pennsyl-
vauia and Ohio elections, is sixty per cent, for
instance; ergo, fifty per cent. of this loss has
been made in q single MONTH
Once more; if the loss in one month is fifty
per cent. twill be one hundred per cent. in
two months. 1t is two months from the Maine
election to the Presidential election, showing
that the Union loss in that time will be one
hundred per cent. Add to this the loss prior
to the Maine Election and we have the re.
sult--oae hundred and ten per cent. loss to
the Union party, demonstrating with maths-
NAUTICAL exactness that Lincoln and johnson
will lose ten per cent. more than eoery cote!
If this will not secure McClellau's election
then even Gunboat will not save him.
To give the World the benefit of its own
form of statement, we make the following ex-
tract: rs a1aa aa4
The chief value of the October elections.
which come midway between those of Yer
mont and Maine and that for President, CON
sists in the decisive evidence they afford Of
the accelerated and rapidly increasing velocity
OF the Democratic current. Had we gained
in the great States of Pennsylvania and Ohio
only in the same ratio that we gained in Maine,
we could have had no hope of carrying the
presidential election; because, in that case.
the Republican losses would have to be inter.
preted as resulting from the general cause
which have been operating during the pas
year, without any ecentaugmentation of Their
force. II Tuesdays elections had shown al
increase of only twenty or thirty per CEN
over the gains of the September election H.,
Maine, the result would have indicated tina
the administration was losing ground, but that
the Democratic gains were not rapid enougi
TO overtake the exigency, and insure us sue
cess IN November. But when the feeble gain,
IN Maine are compared with the powerful
gums In Pennsylvania and Ohio, it is seer
tnat, since the nomination of Gen. Mcclellan
the Democratic party is not only gaining, bu,
gaining In such rapid, progressive, and ac-
celebrating ratio, that the revolution cannot 90
on without sweeping away every yestage OF
Republican majority which appeared in the
election returns of last year.