Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-10-02
GRANT.
SEYMOUR.
Total. ...........
Total vote, SIT. A majority is l59.

Total vote, SIT. A majority is l59.
This exhibit is most flattering for the
prospects of our candidates. SEYMOUR and
BLAIR can spare all of t.e Southern States
and still be elected by handsome vote.
Commenting upon this table the Richmond
Enquirer presents the following hopeful
and we'll -considered calculations.
Excluding the three States "not conn-
ted in the above table, the total vote will
DO two hundred and ninety-fou OF which
one hundred and forty eight will be neces-
sary to choice, SO that on Mr.. Mars es-
innate SEYMOUR and BLAIR will be elected
with fifty electoral votes to spare. 1t may
seem premature, at present, to indulge in
definite speculations as to the votes of par
ticular States, but if even the recent result
in Maine be taken as an indication of the
Democratic gain in the States he claims for
the Democratic candidates, the percentage
gained will carry most, if not all, of them !;
and the tendency of popular opinion in
this direction is too clear to be mistaken.
Of the States set down to the Democracy
by Mr.. Naar, no one doubts Connecticut,
New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Mary
land, Kentucky and California, and as lit
tie apprehension need be felt for the five
Southern States he claims, barring Radical
frauds ); but, as he says, without the latter
the Democratic ticket will, on his estimate,
be successful. Nevada, Nebraska and Ore
gon are properly claimed. For, in the first
| nopoo1 in ff,a oIaotiny for
1866, the Radical majority was only one
thousand one hundred and forty three,
| which change of some five or six hundred
votes will reverse. In Nebraska, in the
election for Governor, in the same year,
the Radical majority WAS only one hundred
and forty-fve. In Oregon, in the election
for Governor, in the same year, the Radi-
cal majority was only two hundred and
twenty. seven. The figures are taken from
the "World Almanac for 1868, which is
very carefully compiled. Mr.. Naar claims
Missouri, and there can be little doubt of
her going Democratic, if Radical frauds
in the registration fail to suppress the
voice of the State Here, then, are one
hundred and thirty votes for SEYMOUR and
BLAIR, leaving only eighteen to be obtained;
or, If Missouri be conceded to Grant,
twenty-nine votes to be obtained.
For these twenty-nine votes, (conceding
Missouri,) we must look to Ohio, Pennsyl-
vania, Wisconsin and Indiana, which give
together sixty-eight votes. Our friends
count on the exertions, popularity and in
fuence of Mr.. Hendricks, who runs for
Governor in Indiana, to turn the scale
| there, and to Mr.. Doolittle, in Wisconsin,
| for like effect. In Pennsylvania, in the
general election for judge of the Supreme
Court in 1867, Sharswood Democrat) car
ried the State by small majority, and the
local elections have for some time past
shown democratic gains. In Ohio, in 1867,
though Hayes (RadicaD was elected Cover
nor by small majority, Democratic Lee
gislature was chosen, and the proposed
amendment of the State constitution,
(which included negro sufrage,) was de-
feated by majority approaching forty
thousand. Eli the recent signs in these
great States are most auspicious
| It will be seen that with the help of In
diana or Wisconsin, we can spare either