Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-07-15

"CGe hundred and fifty-nine votes are al,
mat - necessary for election, and in the above
taolts thele are 49, electoral votes, without
counting one of the Southern States engaged IN
the rebellion. In the list of States given, every
one save three, IN which State election has
h%en held In the last eighteen months has gone
I~mocratic- In all, the local elections ha We
exhibited great Democratic gains, SUFFICIENT to
insure the State Tor the Democracy this fall
We have Tot counted Illinois in the list, but
the delegates TO the Convention declared there
was no doubt but Pendleton would carry that
Sta'e. III il would be certain for Pendleton,
then II can be safely counted for Seymour and
BIan. In addition to this, the States Of Ala.
bsma, Georgia, and Mississippi are certain to
give DEMOCRATIC majority with any fair
Chance OF voting. This will give ~ more cleo
toIA votes and swell the Democratic column to
Isl But the Republicans are laborng to ex.
ciuce the votes Of the States OF Virginia, Texas
snd Mississippi. by legislation in Congress If
the electoral votes of those States are not
counted, then there will be in the Electoral
college 24 votes, and las will be- all that will
Re nrotssary to elect; The Democracy can
tnfn lose Ohio, and still secure a majority of
the Electoral College, without counting any
from the South, or, by carrying Ohio they can
lese missouri, W lscorsin, and Kansas, and
s.!ll elect their ticket without receiving a vote
from the South There Is, therefore, every
reason for encouragement to the Democracy
and the election of Seymour and Blair may be
put dow n as a certainty"
The New York TrlbKne, a paper pridine it.
self on its political figuring, undertakes TO
show up the failacy of the Worlds calcula-
tons In of-hand style. The Tri6une thinks
Vermont might as we'll be claimed for the Dem
ocras as Ohio, the latter State having gone
heavily Republican at every Presidential and
every Governors election since there was
Republican party, and which, even last Fall,
elected her Republican Governor by 2,ge3 ma
Jority. Missouri gave Lincoln 1856 votes to
.il,s96 for Mcclellan, and at her last election
Cl966) gave 62,is. Republican to i0,95s Demo-
cratic. Missouri may not give Grant quite so
lsEge majority as Massachusetts will; but she
esn hardly fail to give him 20,O0o.
Kansas never yet failed to 90 largely Re-
publican, and al her last Governors election
C@6o) thus proclaimed her conviction :-Craw.
ford Republican, 1890; Mcdowell, Democrat,
sl5l; Republican majority, 11,2l9. She will
tLis falI poll $4,000 votes, whereof Grant and
C0ifax will have more than 10000 majority
Wisconsin never yet gave an anti Repub-
lican majority since the Republican party was
formed. Last fall she reelected her RepubIi.
can Governor (Fairchild) by 4,56i majority,
md went Republican ON every ticket; this
spring she chose Republican Judges on a light
vote oy some 5000 majority. The highest vote
she ever cast was in 1860, when Lincoln had
sO.s2 majority in aggregate of I52,Ols The
Tribune believes she will this fall poll ao0,Ooo
VOTES, and that Grant and Colfax will have
over 1900 majority.
The Triture sums mp Its con victions to the
eject hat the only States morally certain to
vote for Seymour and Blair are Kentucky
dary land and Delaware.
The New York SUN, while holding that
Grant and Colfax will be elected, believes that
the Democracy will carry New York lin spite
OF every thing" and attributes the bad pros
poets Of the Republicans in the State to the
legislation or that party upon the excise laws,
and the denial of Sunday lager to the Germans
he Saw holds that the Democracy will have
III ire eight counties alone, al that end Of the
State, comprising the Democratic stronghold,
more than $1,000 majority, which 1t will be
oid'eult 70 overcome In the State al large. The
Sun adds:
These IRE the aspects Of the canvass as they
sppear to- day. New causes NAV come in u
Change them, however. II Pennsylyapia. In
disns, and Connecticut shall go Republican in
October as II is not improbable they will the
DEMOCRATS here Will be DISCOURAGED and the
Rrpuoiicsns will take heart In thai event the
latter may even hope TO carry this much dis
pUted an very changeable State"