The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-01
Last Vote.

"Brick" Pomeroy styles the "political
hummer" who brings things down to suoh
precise dots in the World "a blundsring,
reckless puppy" and a single glance at the
figures given above almost leads us to pardon
the inelegant epithets of that blasphemous
wretch. The twelve States enumerated by the
World as certain for the Democratic candidate
in November-the insolvent firm of Seymour
and Blair had as yet no existence, save, pos
sibly, in the active Imagination of the junior
member-bya a clear majority of over 27l 900,
cast 13S electoral votes. "The calculation"
said the World, sis made without in
Guiding the electoral votes of the Southern
States, since at the present date of reconstruc-
ton (if the radicals should have perpetual
majority in Congress), they would not be re-
admitted to the Union in time to participate
in the Presidential election of 1872" There
fore, but 124 electoral votes were considered
necessary to a choice, and behold, the Demo
cratic candidate has IA more than are requi-
site Including in the Worlds estimate the
States on which it did not venture to specu-
late, according to the actual result in each Of
them, and the estimate stands the same-154
for Seymour and 140 for Grant, with majority
of IA for the former. If, therefore, the eggs laid
by the Democratic hen in Connecticut, in
April last, had not become decidedly the worse
for long keeping before the Worlds chickens
were frisky enough to break through the
shells Seymour would now have been the Presi-
dent elect, by a majority of IA votes in the
Electoral College; although Grant, according
to the April estimates of the World, and the
| actual result in the States which it did not
then include in its table, would have had
majority of at least so, 200 on the popular
| vote.
In addition to the twelve States embraced
in the above table, which the World regarded
as certain to cast majorities for the Democratic
candidate, that journal, it appears, enter
tanned hopes OF doing even better. 1t said
further:-
"Several States which the Democrats will con-
test closely with the radicals and which they
omitted from the above table to WHINING.
| sofa, Maine, Nevada, w est Virginia. Wisconsin,
and possibly Kansas, iuasmuch as this latter
| State is gradually approaching the Democratic
| line"
Each of these six States-casting total
electoral vote of 80, which would have raised
the Democratic vote to 16S, and given more
than a majority of the entire Electoral College
went Republican by the following MAORI
| ties:-
Minnesota..........l53S 1888 West Vrginla..... 5000
Maine........,....2S03 030 Wisconsin .........l5 500
Nevada".... GOO Kansas ...........lS 900
Behold, therefore, the vanity of earthly
hopes, and the folly of counting chickens
before they are Matched. OF the twelve
States which the World last April regarded as
certain for the Democratic candidates by an
aggregate majority of 27l 900, six, casting "A
electoral votes, were carried by Grant, with
over ST. 900 majority; and the other six, cast
ing but "a electoral votes, went for Seymour,
with only 124000 majority, instead of the
coo anticipated by the Arithmetic
Man ~ The six States which the World
hoped to carry, in addition, all cast their cleo
toral votes for Grant by an aggregate majority
of sc, coo. Such is the melancholy result Of
the following pathetic appeal which we find
at the end of the Worlds April estimate-
"Our Democratic friends throughout the
| country will please bear these figures In mind,
and remember that they are TO strain every
| nerve to make what Is u forecast IN april a
reality In November"
They did "strain every nerve;" they issued
fraudulent naturalization papers by the tens
of thousands; they stuffed the ballot-boxes
with tens of thousands Of illegal votes; they
drove tens of thousands of honest and loyal
voters from the polls in the Southern States;
they resorted to every device Of ingenuity,
cruelty, and rascality; and, despite all their
strainipg, they failed to make what was a
forecast in April a reality in November. But,
ipasmuch as their infamous schemes have SO
signally failed, we say to them again, "Let us
have Peacel" .....
"A tumble of 800 feet down q shaft killed
In Rnnliah nolliaru