The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-11-12
SpeculatiOns 4fierWard.

ulating largely as to what they nigh
have done had they pursued differen
line of policy. They do not agree upor
any particular line, but they seem to bt
unanimously of the same opinion tha
there was something wrong One viii
say that the platform was well enough
t but Blair sunk the ticket. Another tha
the head was as bad As the all of the
ticket, and that Chase would certainl,
have won. Still another is of opinion
that the platform Was some way at fault
1t makes very little difference now how
this dispute may be ended The truth
Is the democracy Was sick Of too many
ailments to accomplish anything. The
/ platform was equivocal on finance, anc
revolutionary Oh reconstruction. The
candldatcs We're obnoxious in many re
! SpecJs. Seymour waa Il talr representa-
tive OF the peace Democracy of the
war ior whom General Grant long agt
SAID that no patriot ought ever to vote.
\ theoretical seceoSionist In Sol, he a,
no time cordially sympatllized with the
government III its struggle against REBEL
ion. From the beginning to the end OF
the war he did nothing to commend hinr-
self to the approval OF loyal men.
Prompted by his secret sympathy with
the South and its unholy cause, he OPP
posed all war measures as unconstltution-
al, and prompted by the same spirit he
has since the cessation of hOstiities ex-
erted all his indignity to misreprescnt the
course OF the Republican party, making
the most rlCneous statements In order to
persuade the people that the Republicans
have been corrupt and prohigate, and
ofthe government to those who strove to
destroy it, or sympathized with that at
tempt. The American people are not
prepared as yet TO trust such man in
the White House. Blair was even more
mistrusted than Seymour Turning his
back upon the noble record be had writ.
ten for himself as defender of the Un-
ion. he boldly and shamelessly avowed
himself Il revolutionist, and pronounced
the violent abrogation of the laws the
main issue of the campaign.
If the candidates were obnoxious, the
platform was not less so. 1t deman led
tie taxation Of government securities
equally with real property when they
were issued with the distinct pledge that
they should not be taxed, and when it is
obviously quite as just. III the absence OF
any pledge whatever, to tax any Other
claim against the government as 4 claim
for Money leaned as just 10 tax claims
FIR Douuties. pensions aud the like, as
Claims in the shape Of bonds. This plat
form Was double voiced upon other gues-
tions of finance The Democracy OF
different sections and different shades OF
opinion constl uctcd it to suit themselves
some as demanding the abolition of ma
| tional banks and the payment of govel liz
ment obligations IN deprecated paper,
and others as demanding the reverse pol
icy. On uction, as before re-
marked, it was revolutionary, denounced
acts of Congress as null and void, virtu-
ally promising that the Executive should
overthrow them by violence
During the latter days Of the canvass:
after the October elections, some of the
party leaders tried to correct their mis-
takes, but failed And had they sue
ceeded in their attempt to throw cand
/ dates overheard, their platform would
| have remained to testify against then
and the people would have PUT no faith
IN their dea:h tJed repentance.
j Le n:eans to which il.ey lesorted il
order to carry the election are not ca.cu
| lated to restore them TO d .opaiar IA
! vor.
The verdict of New York, honestly
expressed Is against tben They have
carried the State OF NeE York. Tor Sey-
| moul and Blair 10y polling % 010 fraudu
| lent votes. Without these, we should
have carried the State for Grant and Col
lax by IL, coo to 10000. In ike manner
or rather by even more wicked proceed
ings, they have probably carried Louisa
Ia, Alab ia and Georgia, and perhap:
Arkansas and North Carolina. Upon /;
| fair vote of all qualified electors, Gram
would have carried every one of these
states by handsome majorities. A party
that goes into the electoral college with
4 votes obtained by fraud and violence
must mend its ways before it can hope tc
receive the popular endorsement.
Notwithstandngth these fraudulent votes
and allowing the Democracy all the state:
GAINED 10y the Void, the vote iii the
eiectoriaI college stands:
Gran, and C,Iiax Isl
Sey niour and Dlalr l0
d
Repuhl can Majority q
Had Texas, Mississippi and Virgin;
! been entitled to vote. aud had they gont
! Democratic the.vote would have stood
/ ,ir,.;.g aat CoI.aX Is
| Seq u DiisT 10
keiui can majority .
| This estima,e is based upon. the " orld
claim of twelve states for Seymour ant
Blair But of he states included by th'