The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-10-21
from the New York Tribune. I
THE 1--WE FORKS OF 1868.

THE FIVE FORKS F." OF 1868.
1t was universally felt, and virtually con-
fessed, that the partisans of Seymour and
Blair must triumph in the State elections
held yesterday or abandon all hopes of sue
cess. Every table they have yet made of the
probable vote for next President by States
claimed Pennsylvania, Indiana and Nebras-
ka, as certainly and Ohio, as probably, for
Seymour. The most ingenious among them
could not make up list of States expected
to vote for Seymour sufficient to elect him,
without including all or most of those above
named. They had thus advertised their
followers that they must carry those States
in October or confess themselves already
beaten in the November struggle.
In Pennsylvania, the desperation of their
fortunes impelled them to superhuman eff
forts. They fabricated bogus naturalization
certificates by the ream; they imported
roughs and repeaters in regiments they
poured out their money without stint and
organized fraud enough to fill at least TWEEN
ty of the largest State prisons Determined
to win at all hazards, they spared no effort
an left no trick untried whereby they could
hope to falsify the judgment Of the Great
Central States. That they cheated us more
its neighborhood alone, we have no shadow
| of doubt.
But they cheated in vain. Their judicial
notification of the registry act, their manu-
| facture of spurious naturalization papers by
the ream. their importation of blacklegs and
bullics, their conspiracies and rascalities,
have all availed them nothing. A magnifi-
cent day and desperate struggle brought
out by far the largest vote ever polled in the
State, with result that shows her for Grant
beyond contingency. His majority may be
figured down to ten thousand now, but it
will be more than twenty Thousand in No
vember. We have probably two-thirds of
the Representatives in Congress, with both
branches OF the Legislature, insuring Re-
publican United States Senator tor six years
ensuing, in place of Charles R. Buck 4lew,
Democrat. N"bly done, gallant old Key
Stone
| Ohio we have at no time doubted, though
certain injudicious nominations exposed us
to notifying local disasters. The Leeisla-
ture (holding over from last year, is Demo-
cratic in either branch as it would not begin
to be if chosen this year; and Allen G.,
Thurman will misrcprcsent the State in Mr.
Wade's seat for six years from next March :;
but she has now gone Republican by at least
twenty thousand majority, eIecting large
majority of Republicans to the next House
(The Republicans chose Gen. r. B. HAYES
her Governor last year by s,9s3 majority
We presume no more need be said as to her
vote for President this year. Grant will
walk over the course
Indiana has been rendered doubtful by
enormous naturalizations and by heavy i'm
portations from Kentucky. Despite the
sanguine advices of our correspondents, we
apprehended disastrous vote along her
Kentucky border, which threatened to
swamp our State ticket, though we conf
IDENTIFY expected to carry the Legislature
giving U. S. Senator in place of Thomas
Hendricks, Democrat) and majority of the
Representatives in Congress. Vague advices
! thus far Il A. NJ indicate Republican tri-
umph throughout, though We presume by a
small aggregate majority.