Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-16
Let us Resnect Figures.

Vermont voted on Tuesday for State officers and
on a full vote the Republican gains and majority
were far beyond the most sanguine expectations OF
the party
Yet the World finds great comfort in the returns
handling them in the following curious style
cat the Vermont election, on Tuesday, the Dem
ocrats for every one hundred votes cast last year.
cast one hundred and forty-fve votes while the Re-
publicans for every one hundred votes last year,
cast but one hundred and thirty.fye now, the per-
centage of Democratic gain being ten more than
that Of the Republican gain. The same sort OF Re-
publican gain applied to this State gives it to Sey
mour by eighty-four thousand majority, and Sc
cures him all the great States of the North and
West To elect Seymour the Democrats of the
Union have but to initiate the gallant fight of the
Democrats Of the Green Mountain State And
who doubts that they will do it "
The vote last year was 34694 Republican and
ii $40 Democratic. The World guesses at the vote
of this wear as 2005 Republican and 5,552 Demo
cratic. One might as reasonably object to guessing
at statistics and then drawing differences from the
especially as the guess is followed by significant
concession:
"The figures given for 1868 are, of course not Of
fetal but we 10 not think that later returns viii
materially change them possibly the Radical ma
jority win be increased by 1000 by corresponding
reduction in the vote attributed to the Democrats"
Waving this, however, the World really ought
TO calculate from its own guess correctly.
But if its guess were right instead Of being twelve
or fifteen per cent too favorable for the Democrats.
its calculation is singuarly erroneous, and should
read thus The Democrats for every hundred
votes last year. cast 135 votes while the Republic
cans, for every hundred votes last year, cast l32
now
But the following is the latest intelligence from
Vermont
aReturns from l54 towns give majority of 20-
l67 and a net Republican gain over last year OF
6Is9 The remaining towns will increase the net
gain TO 10000 and give total maority OF $4,000
Our guess at the vote is certainly nearer to the
fsotg than that of the World; it is this, A., 500 Re-
publican. 1850 Democratic. Making the neoes-
ssrv corrections in the Worlds calculations its re-
Elections win read thus
CAT the Vermont election, on Tuesday, the Dem
ocrats o every 100 votes last year. cast 100 votes
while the Republicans, fos every 100 votes Last
wear cast "a now, the percentage of Democratic
gain being twenty-five less than that of the Repub
icsn gain.
aThe same sort of Republican gain applied to
This State gives it 10 Grant by twentyeght thous-
and nine hundred majority, and secure him all the
States great and small, Of the NORTH and West, in
Guiding The States, except Kentucky, which voted
for Mcclellan in 1864 To make the Electoral Col
lege almost unanimous for Grant, the Republicans
OF the Union have but to initiate those of Vermont
and vote
win the World make this correction and So aid
in keeping the spirit Of misrepresentation out OF the
science of statistics 2-Nelo York Post