Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-08
THE CANVASS.

We clip the following from the cores ing the October States. .... l 1 have heard no person here, Democrat or Republican, express any doubt Whatev- CT that the state would go Republican the only question about which they differ, being ns to the majority. Steubenville, which has population of about 10000, is Republican by about 400 majority, and the county (Jeiferson) gave 1,60O majority fol Lincoln last time, and 75O Republican ma jority at the election last fall. There Was 8 large reduction in in the total vote o the county, last year,as compared with the Presidential election, which will not be tho case this fall Most of those who stay el at home, last year,will this year yote4he Republican ticket. *. Il the Republican candidates for auditor and surveyor arc elected in October by a ma iority of l5, 900, it is estimated that Gran t's majority will not be less than 30,OOO, and some estimate 1t as high as 5o,0OO.
 PENNsYLy ANIA.
 The principal aim and hope of the Dem ocrats of this State, in the October election is to secure as many Congressman as possi ble, and to keep down the Republican ma jority on tho State ticket to a figure that will not produce q panic in their ranks elsewhere With reference to their first object-the securing of Congressman they have bare possibility of gaining the Twenty first District mprising the coun- ties of indaI;s, Westmoreland and Fayette now represented by Hon. John Covode, and they are sure to loose the Twelfth Dis trict, Qlehigh, Luzerne, Carbon and North ampton Conntles,) now represented by Geo. W. Woodward. Covode hats some enemies III his own party, and has the mis- | forum to have a very popular man Henry D. FoGter) for an opponent. Still he is 6 shlewd politician, good wire puller and u hard worker, and he thinks he will suc- c4et. Woodward, in tAe Twelfth District, was elected two years ago by 412 majority. l He is now opposed by Theodore Strong Q pol',llar Repr h!ican, who, ill consequence Of local dissatisfaction with Woodward, will get most of the Irish vote iii that mi ming District, and will certainly be elected. The other congressional districts are not likely to suffer change one way or the oth CT: so that the Democracy connot possibly get any more out Of the twentv-four Rep re5.iltatives to Congress than the six they now nave and may get one less. x I can only say that no candid State, has any doubt Of the Republicans i carrying the State at the October election, and that the most mod crate of the well-informed Republicans 1 do not fix the maj jority at less than 15,O ,O0O Thls, however, IS not, as they ail agree, to I be considered as an an index of the major ity that Grant will get i'll November.
 ! In view of the great importance of the October election Ill this State. have, du- ring the past week taken pains to ascertain the opinion of some of our leading and 1 bestinformcd public men in regard to the 1 prospects in Indiana Gov Oliver P Mor- ton, than whom few men in this state are 1 better qualified to estimate the results of 8 | great political struggle, and who, both in 1864 and 1868, foretold the majorities of 1 the Republicans within 8 few hundred votes, says that Indiana will give in Octo- Der as handsome majority as four years ago, when he defeated Joseph E. McDon- ald by over 1000 majority. Gov. Baker Is somewhat afraid lest thousands of Ken tuckians should vote in our southern coun- ties, and he, therefore, fixes his majority only about two or three thousand votes above that obtained ill 1866. Lieut.. Gov. Cumback, who has stumped tho State for two months past with unparalleled energy and came in contact with the people and politicians of more than two thirds of the counties in the State. says that the Repub lic,tn majority at the October election in Indl:;ua will at least bo equal that of Maine Ma]Or Gen. Wallace, who has visited many parts of the State during the present cam paign, and who possesses much experience in our S,ate politics, predicts that the Re- 1 publican viii do a great deal better ill I October next than they did in 1886. Gov 1 Oglesby, of Illinois: after visiting 8 mum Der of our most populous counties, and consulting With Cur most experienced and influential politicians, declared that Indj- ana was safe by at least fifteen thousand majority. But, since that statement was made, 8 number of events have taken place which have added greatly to the strength of the Indiana Republicans. Speak ker Col fax entertains no doubt whatever that we shai carry tue State in October by rous- ing majority. The venerable, yet fiery Col. Richard Thompson, one Of the most efficient speakers Il the present campaign, estimates the majority which Indiana will give in October, at twenty thousand. Ex- Oenatof Henry .. Lane, whose titii p!iti!se IS waving in tie thickest of the fray, ts it did in 1S40, and in 1860, fully indorses Col. Thompson s opinion. As reSaris the estimates made by the Dem ocrats i'll regard to the results of the Octo- Der election, 1 have not found any save the editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer the claim ed more than five thousand majority Tn the state, but the editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer knows very little about Indiana politics, and his estimate is not worth much. Senator Hendricks still asserts that he will 1 be elected Governor of Indiana ill October, but he refuses to say anything about the majority by which he expects to carry the State. You see, ile says to those who ask him about it. Indiana may poll some thiag like 375, ,000 votes, and in that event 1t will be very difficult to estimate the Democratic majority, but the State is certain to go Democratic. Senator Hen dricks must be a less sagacious gentlemen ] than take him to be if he still thinks that he will be elected. Senator Doolittle, 1 see, predicted recently, both in Wisconsin and Ill Ohio, that Indiana would give the Democrats a heavy majority, but he told us the same thing about Wisconsin, which was no less absurd than what he prophe- sies.