The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-08-08

This is more than q majority Of the votes;
but the Enquirer s resume Is still more fiat
tering
We carried Connecticut in April By 200
majority on Governor, on the largest vote
ever poIled in the State Every opposition
ticket had Grants name on it for President.
We carried New Y ork last fall by $4,000
majority, and we shall, with MIR. Seymour as
a leader increase it this year.
New Jersey is always Democratic. 1t was
so last fan by a majority equal to 10000 in
Ohio. None but a fool suppOses she will
vote for Grant.
Delaware voted against Lincoln even dur
ing the war, and she will 60 now twice as
strong against Grant.
In Maryland and Kentucky the Radicals
viii not poll for Grant one vote to every
three the Democrats poll for Seymour
In California, at the last election, we had
5000 Democratic majority, and in Oregon
we had 1000 in June 1868. There is not
an earthly prospect that the radicals can
overcome these maIOrItes.
Pennsylvania is naturally Democratic.
We carried 1t last year, when the opposition
did their best, and we vii! repeat the result
with interest this fall
We also carried Nevada at the last cleo.
ton
These States, thus named, where it
| hardly seems possible We can be beaten,
have Is electoral votes.
Indiana and Illinois are old Democratic
| States, which the war caused to swerve from
their mornings They had no State officers
| to elect in 1867, but if they had had the
/ Democrats would have carried them tri-
( umphantly. This was evinced by the local
county elections, where the Democrats made
| vast gains, in almost every instance through
out the States. The pressure Of taxation is
| severely felt by them, and the desire for q
! change in the Administration pervades al
| classes without distinction of parry
! In Ohio we polled last year 240, 900 votes
| for Judge Thurman our candidate for Gov
ernor He was beaten by less than 5000
| on tie largest vote ever given in the State
! He was beaten by Illegal negro votes, be
cause the Democrats were deficient in or
| ganization and lacked confidence in the re-
suit Had they had better organization, and
as much confidence as they have now, Ohio
would have been Democratic by 10000 ma
! iOrity We are a Democratic State to day
! the radical strength is all confined to the
/ Western Reserve and to a few counties il
the Miami Valley. Grant has no strength
personally in this State. He Is the weakes
! candidate they could have run, and invOke
neither the enthusiasm of the outside or tht
energy Of the inside party men,
We have not spoken Of Missouri, with he
eleven electoral votes She Is one of tn
strongest Democratic States IN the Union
and if her people all voted, would give Sey
mour and Blair $4,000 majority at least
We have been beaten there for several years
because the Democrats have allowed them
selves to be Gisfranchised by illegal ties
oaths, administered at the polls. Thes
oaths have been declared to be unc0nstitU
tional, and this year the Democrats will vote
and the support Grant will receive in Mii
souri, will be small indeed.
But this is but partial survey Of tn
field. There are 81 ELECTORAL votes, if a
the Southern votes are counted. OF these
l59 are a majority The States above give
have six votes more than is requisite for
choice. But Grant Is not certain of all tn
South. He cannot, even backed up by tn
negroes and the military, carry half of /
He will lose Virginia, Georgia, Alabamt
Mississippi, Texas and Arkansas certain
and they have so electoral votes.
If the people in Western Virginia tur
out and vote, as we understand they vii
Grant will be beaten in that State by
great majority. The radicals have bee
q carrying it because not Oue-third OF the pc
pie have voted. 1t has five electoral vote
Nebraska is about balanced POLITICAL
and is as likely to go for Seymour as Gran
r Wisconsin and Minnesota are in the san
p category A vigorous effort by the Demo
racy VIII give both States to Seymour. tt
radicals only carried them last year by ii
barest maiorities Even New Hampshi1
. Is not absolutely certain Tor Grant