New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-15
THE TRIBUNE ALMANAC.

pretty thoroughly distributed among the peo-
pie, and is receiving most flattering compli-
ments from men and newspapers of all parties.
Starting as a political register twenty seven
years ago, it has been the aim of the publish
ers to make it complete and impartial rec
ord of such facts as seemed most desirable for
immediate reference. OF course, the leading
feature has been Election Returns, and in that
department we have striven to attain the ut
most accuracy in every particular. That we
have measurably succeeded is known OF all men,
and we feel no small degree of pride in
the knowledge that our little annual is almost
universally the authority appealed to in disputes
as to men elected, and votes and majorties,
throughout the United States. That the i'm
mense array of figures given every year should
be positively perfect cannot be hoped, but all
that close attention and the most extensive
sources of information can do to insure accuracy
is uniformly done, and We merely state truth
known by all readers when say that The
TRIBUNE ALMANAC contains the most accurate
statements ever published Of General and State
elections throughout the Union.
In the issue for 1868 we have given the first
and only full exhibit of the registration and
With the exception of Texas where the regis
tration was not completed in time, we give
very full returns, and in most cases the de-
clared official results by color and by counties.
The addition of the new element of enfran-
ohised colored men to the ballot renders all
facts in regard to their number and the way
they voted of great Importance. These facts
have never been presented in compact and in
telligible form until the issue of THE TRIBUNE
ALMANAC for 1868. OF course, the most COM
plete returns of elections in the Northern States
are also given, and these are accompanied with
comparative votes in former years, so that the
reader may SEQ at a glance tho longth ana
breadth of the somewhat remarkable changes
that have recently taken place.
Beside the compre hensive summaries OF reg
fstrat1on and elections, both North and South,
THE TRIBUNE ALMANAC contains a summary
of the laws enacted by Congressman merely
the titles Of acts, but clear statement of
their scope and spirit, SO that any one may
understand their intent. 1t also gives the
Public Resolutions, the Presidents Proclama-
tons, the Reconstruction Acts, and what has
been done under them; the Impeachment
movement, and its result, with an analysis OF
the vote thereon the only correct list of MEM
bers of Congress up to the 1st of January, with
their party divisions the leading Government
officers; Foreign Ministers Foreign Govern
ments States of the Union, Governors, time
of elections, &C., beside the usual astronomical
and calendar matter.
A great and important political contest is
opening; contest in which few voters will be
passive and none Indifferent, contest in which
every man will feel the necessity of having at
hand some book of reference to which he may
appeal with a certainty of finding the truth,
the whole truth, andi nothing but the truth.
This book is The TRIBUNE ALMANAC, which
presents all the leading facts necessary for
thorough comprehension of State and National
politics and Congressional action up to the be-
ginning of this year. We are proud to know
that the many flattering compliments hereto
fore paid to our little book are even more cor
daily repeated this year. and hope in the flu
ture, as in the past, to deserve them all.
Our sole object is to give the public the truth,
to which Democrats and Republicans may alike
appeal with the certainty of finding "notling to
extenuate, nor aught set down in malice
That The TRIBUNE ALMANAC is entirely
free from partisan bias, every one who knows
anything of it knows full well. 1t is simply q
record of facts and figures, and is no more
swayed by party feeling than is the mnltiplica-
ton table. 1t numbers among its patrons nearly
every prominent Democratic politician in the
county, and is the recognized standard of
authority in all their committee rooms and
newspaper Offices, quite as much so as in those
of men Of the other faith. There Is not a
voter in the Union who would not find himself
improved and benefited by having TRIBUNE
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