The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-06-28
THE PRESIDENTIAL CHANCES

be the nominee of the July Conven
ton for the Presidency. The choice
would seem to lie between him and
Pendleton. We should say that their
strength before the people is abou,
equal. Chase would get the support OF
some mealy mouthed Republicans and
lose some of the Copperhead ultras.
Pendle;on would lose some ''War Dem
ocrats land would get the undivided
support of the no coercionists and the
rebels. Either one would get the sup
pert of the Democratic party proper.
On the other hand, Grant will get the
bulk of the straight out, earnest Union
men who are anxious to see the war :
results secured to the national cause
and the " Conservative " soldiers. II
Chase is nominated there will be enough
Vallandinghammers refrain from voting
at all to make more than an Offset to
the Wendell Phillips extremists who
will not go to the polls. Whoever the
Democratic nominee may be, we may
calculate that the non action within
that party Will be greater than in the
Union Republican pariy-counting the
followers of Phillips to belong thereto,
The Conservative soldiers aud sail
ors movement is simply q scarecrow.
Buell., McClernaud, Jim Denver, Fitz
John Porter aud some others of that
stripe are the leaders Of this Con
sentative - army maneuver {; and they
cannot muster a man more than they
did to support Mcclellan in 1861 Some
of the nine months men, all the Boun-
ty Jumpers, all the deserters and the
bulk of those officers who were dis
missed the service or she!ved for mis-
conduct Will vote against Grant ; but
the Grand Army of the Republic viii
flock 10 his banner a million strong
The no party men who mildly though
that secession was wrong will mainly
vote the Republican ticket, although it
is from these uaimpulsive loyalis,s that
Chase would geta considerable support. |
We account Grant to be as strong as
Lincoln in GA and besides the Union
vote Of that year, be will get not less
than six of the Southern States includ-
ing the big vote in the electoral col
legs of Louisiana. 1t strikes US that
the Democrats, if they expect to divide
the vote at the North, anyhow, will not
be very sagacious to throw off Pendle-
ten for Chase for the former is GER
tsiniy much the stronger in 1" The Con-
federacy."
To sum up these crude estimates, we
arrive at the conclusion that the Ma
ioual Union Republican party, in the
Worth, is to the Democratic party as
i've to four that the loyal vote at the
south, low tia. the Freedmen are en-
bears a similar relation,
numerically considered, to the unre-
and that Grant and Col
az can and will get nearer the full F..
irength of their party than any ticket I.
he Democrats can put in the field. I
We do not lose sight of the fact that it
) the yote of the States in the electoral
college and not the popular ballot that ]
tects Presidents and that under that :
''au it is possible for minority to eject
heir ticket but we also keep in sight
he fact that Grants great popularity is y,
be turning point in our favor in the c
ou6tful States, while it is in just those 7
that either Chase or Pen :
Teton are the weakest. Finally, it c
,oks as if Greeley's general conclusion = =
, correct one, that Grant and Colfax a
ill get larger popular vote than was r
yer cast in favor Of any candidates for i
,e Presidency and Vice Presidency of '.
10 United 6tatea- d