The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-10-31

Wisconsin 8
Minnesota
Kansas ..t
Nevada
In the present Congress therefore we have
sixty-nine members from these States. elected
by Republican majorities and twenty-five
elected by Democratic majorities In eonsid-
erIng the probabilities respecting the coming
election, we may leave out of the account
Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Kansas
and Nevada. These will be sure to send now
as heretofore, solid Republican delegations.
OF the remaining seven, New York is by far
the most uncertain, on account of peculiar
complications not easily understood or allow
ed for. In the Second district, Tor example.
the National Unionists and Regular Demoera-
cy are running separate tickets, and there is
chance that the Republican candidate, Mr..
Van Brunt, may come in ahead, though the
regular Democratic majority has always been
about 5000. In the Fourth district, there are
six candidates in the field. including Horace
Greeley, Ben Wood and Sunset Cox. In the
Fifth district, Mr.. John Morrssey and Gen.
Nelson Taylor will divide the Democratic suf-
irages. In the Sixth (Raymonds) there are
two candidates on each side. In the Eighth,
there are net only three masculine candidates
but Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton has entered
the lists and the Times says 'it is barely with
in the range Of possibility that her success
may prove one OF the knotty and difficult
questions to be solved by the next Congress-
We have said enough to show that it is i'm
possible to predict the result with any accura-
cy. 1t will be noticed however that the div
1sicn between the National Unionists who
still adhere to their organization and the orig
inal Copperheads is irreconciabe. The Ma
tional Union strength is drawn almost wholly
from the Democratic party Raymond is now
acting with the Republicans. Mr. Beecher's
influence is given to the same party 1t is
therefore proper to infer that the few Repub-
licans who were drawn away by the specious
nonsense oil the Philadelphia convention have
returned to their allegiance. and that the Ma.
tionaf Union diversion will operate in our ia
vor.
From New Jersey we have cheering news.
Jack Rogers insists on running in the Fourth
dis trct, and will defeat his party there.
There is a row among the Democrats in the
Fifth district also, which is likely to turn to
our advantage. We had two districts before.
which makes up the handsome total of four out
OF five. In Delaware, the present member.
John Nicholson, has been renominated. His
majority in 1864 was 504. The Unionists have
carried the State three times since 1sGO, and
there is a bare possibility that Mr.. Nicholson
may be replaced in the next Congress by
John S. McKim. M
In Illinois the campaign is next in in
tensity to that which has Just closed Ia
Indiana. The Republicans have renom-
mated eight of their present members. The
new nominations in districts now Republican
are Norman ID. Judd, in the First, Gen. G, b.
Raum in the Thirteenth, and Gen. John A.
Logan at large. Egypt has been pretty thor
ou9hly redeemed. The ground now occupied
by the Democracy stretches right across the
State in belt seventy OF eighty miles wide,
running Just below Springfield. In this re-
gion the Democrats hold three districts. the
Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh, now represented
by Messrs. Ross, Thornton and Marshall.
Ross and Marshall have been renomipated.
Thornton has retired in favor of Albert G.
Burr. All through these three districts the
Republicans are holding school district meet
ings every night and there is hardly a town
of over five hundred inhabitants in which one
or two mass meetings have not been held.
The Ninth district wv ha
Republican, and enthusiastic people talk of
carrying one or both the others. The veal,
Republican districts are the Fourth (Har-
dings) and Twelfth (Baker's). 1t has been
impossible to find renegades enough to fin the
Federal offices, and the Presidents friends
are with few exceptions, Copperheads pure
and simple. There is perhaps no other State
in which men who have surrendered their
political principles to secure office are so Sc
verely punished by social contempt as in
Illinois '1
In Wisconsin, the smallest Republican ma
jority is 5s2, in the First district, now repre-
scented by Halbert E. Paine. The feud be-
tween the Democrats and the johnson men
is as active in Wisconsin as elsewhere and
paralyzes the party. In Mr.. Paine's district
they have made a spasmodic effort but with
no likelihood of success.
There remain only Maryland and Missouri.
In both these States Rebels are by law forbid
den to vote In both States the Presidents
friends are trying to evade the law In Mary
land we shall elect four out of five members
Of (Oprrapc fbo DO ~,
sioners are allowed to enforce the law. II
they are removed and the Rebel vote is count
ed, we shall elect only two. In Missouri. if
only the legal vote is taken, we shall elect five
of the Republican candidates with ease and
with proper effort shall certainly carry the
othr two Republican districts, and possibly
the Sixth, now represented by Van Horn.
The prospect is then that we shall sweep
Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Kansas
and Nevada, as usual. In New Jersey, ILL
nois and Delaware, there is reason TO expect
gain. In New York the chances are decid-
ly on the Republican side. In Maryland and
MISSOURI the johnson party may succeed in
eyading the law and polling a heavy Rebel
vote; it will then be for Congress to decide
whether candidates so elected are entitled to
seats 10 the House.
The Legislatures to be chosen Tuesday in
New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, New
Jersey, Kansas Nevada and Maryland, will
elect United States Senators. Kansas will
elect two. There is no reasonable doubt OF
the complexion of the Legislature in any
succeed III getting rebel Legislature, to send
him to Washington. Whether the Senate will
receive him, under the circumstances, is an
other question. lil-
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