The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-29
Tru,st the Empire stntot

TiHist the Empire Stntei
From The Tribune.
Friends living remote from us write to ask
what is the probability with regard to the result
OF our approaching State election. We answer
specifically and confidently.
At the last Presidential election the total vote
of the State was as iollows:-
President. Lincoln. 1868 795 Mcclellan .36l 9s6
2tovernor. tenton.. SJ9557 seymour. .351 1854
Lt-6Overi or AlyoId. .969 1856 Floyd Jones 861 $40
7716.
Governor Fenton had the highest vote and the
largest majority of any man on either national
or State ticket. And his vote stands to this day
the largest ever cast for any one in this State for
any ofhce whatever.
At our election last fall the vote stood
Sec'y of etate. Barlow. 3O1 055 slocum 27s 1913
controller. hillhouse .:9J2 42S Robinson 271 S52
Majortes-Barow, 2IC57 Hulhouse, 8C576.
We believe our majority was largely reduced
IN 1864 by toul play, especially with the soldiers
votes last tall we p lied rather more than our
actual majority, because the Democratic mana
gers undertook 20 plough,with strange heiiers
and so dIsgusteG the rank and file of their party
that thousands OF them utterly refused TO vote
IL the same policy Is persisted ih the disgust
and dlsatiection will probably be greater this
year. Inc New York Democracy are rather
hard on the bit; and It viii take some time TO
reconcile them to the leadership OF Weed Raw.
mond, and the ringer OF the little bell.n But
on square party issue, and full popular vote
tne hepuDlcan-Un majority in the State is
Just about 20, 00O.
We can overgo that figure this fall. and are
determined TO do it. Never did the pulse of a
party beat higher than does that OF the Re-
publicans OF New York to-day The New Or.
leans massacre, with the nefarous means used
to misead the public mind touching the facts
and the dispatches of General Sheridan, have
aroused a stern public INDIGNATION which
sweeps all before It. II the election were next
Tuesday, we should poll more votes than we did
last year; with two months wherein to enighten
and arouse the masses by publications and
speeches, we can poll at least 40 600 more votes
than any party ever yet cast in this State save
at the last Presidential election.
And let none fear that we shall not make
proper efforts throughout our State. We have
a Congress to elect, and we shall contest every
district with desperate resolution. Where our
local strength is overwhelming, we shall work
for our State ticket; where we are relatively
weak, we shall fight 10 elect our Repre- enta-
tives in Congress. We may lose one member
(gained in '64 by adverse divisions) in this city:
we confidently expect to gain three, ana hope
for four, elsewhere A United States Senator is
at stake, and we have not the falntest notion Of
losing him.
Our State Convention next week will be very
strong in numbers and character. and its meet.
ing and deliberations will swell the enthusiasm
already prevailing. We shall there take steps
to secure q thorough canvass OF our State from
end to end, and TO call out our vote to the
utmost Recent acts of our LEGISLATURE have
strengthened the impediments to illegal voting,
which operates signally to our advantage. 1t
will be far more difficult to vote often" or vote
at all If unqualified than it ever yet has been.
Our saving by these acts must amount to several
thousand votes.
Friends without! Trust New York Though
sorely tried, she has not failed when you needed
her. She will stand by you now by decided
and inyincible majority!