The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-09-22

The lopic of events down in Maine IS no
as comfortable after all for our r0dica
friends They don't see half az much com
fort in it as they did. In fact 1t looks more
: ~. promise Of defeat than Of victory
The New York Tribune warns its brethren
not 10 deceive themselves by counting upon
upon the result in Maine as a proof Of rau''
cal asceudency anywhere. It tells the re-
publioans of New York that "though the news
from Maine is well as a promise Of 'uceeSS,
it is hardly peH en0ugh.' 1t saws
'.If our vote should fall on like taa' OF ma'he,
oi,,bt nor cont Tho total Of 1850 VIC would
lose New Work. bv 4S7Is majority. Therefore
we ,nrst do six per cent, better than Maine, com
| pared with 1855, VI We lose the state
The Hon. sa nuel j. Tilden, chairman Of
the democratic state committee, in a speech,
at New York, the other evening took the
fgures Of the radicals themselves, and
| showed that If the democracy Of the other
states make the same relative gain that
their friends have made in Maine, the cleo
ton Of Seymour is assured beyond any con.
tingency. He said
The Tribune claims that they have 49,
600 majority. The Tribune claims that
they have only lost something less than 49,.
600 of that majority with which they carried
Maine, two years ago, and with a much lar
ger aggregate vote aud more active con.
test. Now, gentlemen, the Times says this
morning that the election is important as
indicating the current, but it don't think the
result shows much Of q current. Why?
According to the TiJlmCs own showing
this morning, between four and five thous.
and men who voted the republican ticket
two years ago, have this time voted the
democratic ticket. Applause. -Four per
cent of the republican vote of two years ago
has changed aud il new accession to the
democracy. Applause and cries Of good,
good. Well, gentlemen, | think this is
something Of current and would like to
see the same kind and extent Of a current
prevail in these great middle states, where
the real battle Of this political controversy
is to be fought. Give US four per cent. OF
change in the vote Of New York in the
same election, and we have gain Of sixty
odd thousand, and majority OF htty thOus.
and. A vOice-"Ihat's so Give US
four per cent. gain from 1866 in Indiana,
and we have / 600 there. Applause.
Give us four per cent. gain in Ohio, as com
pared with every election since 1864, aud
We will carry Ohio. A yoicc-"We viii
that I will stipulate with tho repubii.
cans TINT ifthcy will give us four per cent.
gain in those four great states, will ask
them for no more in order TO carry Seymour
and Blair, whose names we have just raised,
triumphautly into the presidency and vice
presidency at the next election. Ap
planse.
The duIlest Of comprehension can readily
see the force Of these remarks and the cor
rectness Of this calculation. Maine at the
late election cast the largest vote she ever
polled, and vet the republican majority is
over g 1000 less than in lsGG-the last year
in which there was a strict party test. The
TriJune comedies n total Of $4,000 to the
democracy, and claims total Of 5000 ior
its own party-a gain on the vote Of 1860
| Of over $4,000 to the former, and only it,
tie over 5000 to the latter