The Ouachita telegraph., 1870-11-26
lsl:PtBi.ICAS.
DEMOCRATIC.

Tennessee. lOISouth Carollna..... .
Efnas Hl7sinis Il Wisecns'n XSs%sai;
West Nirginia... . -.
This is rather Il narrow margin upon
which to predicate the certainty of a
Democratic triumph, but all the States
given to the Republicans by the Herald
are by no means to be considered as be-
yond redemption. New Jersey, for in
stance, which has suffered so recently
from bad management and Federal
intervention, may be recovered. Mis-
isissippi, also, is more than likely to
vote the other way, and neither Ohio
nor Pennsylvania, even, are to bccount-
ed on as irredeemably Radical.
The conclusions of the Sun are some
what different from those of the Herald.
For instance, it sets down as "reasona-
bly, certain" for the Republican candi-
date, the same States named by the
Herald, excepting Mississippi, with an
electoral vote Of one hundred and fifty.
1t places among the certain Democratic
States, Alabama, California;, Delaware,
Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Mis-
souri,, New York, North Carolina, Ore
gon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and
West Virginia, with an electoral vote
of one hundred and thirty-tive. TO be
regarded as doubtful, I" with the chances
rather in favor of their voting for an rn-
eXceptionable Democratic can(itlate,"
are named Arkansas, Connecticut, Flor
ida, Georgia, Mississippi and Nevada,
with an electoral vote of thirty-three.
l1ence it infers that the Republicans,
with Il seeming assurance of one hum
dred and fifty votes, need but ten from
doubtful column, while the Democrats,
with a certainty of one hundred and
thirty-five votes, will require twenty
five to insure them Il victory.
The Chicago Republican, after il re-
view of the situation, comes to the con-
clusion that the Democracy have but Il
frail hold on several of the States now
in their possession, and that the Re-
publicans have but to cut loose from its
administration managers to retain their
ascendency for many years to come.
This conclusion is certainly defective,
for the party of the administration IS
still Il power, of vitality and proper
tions not to be despised, whatever its
faults may be, and a general cutting
loose from it of Liberal Republicans
involves Il critical if not fatal rupture.
1t is this centrifugal clement of Radical
ism which has contributed more than
anything else to Democratic successes
in the past two years, and it is not
logical to presume that it will hence
forth cease to be followed by similar re-
suits. For no other reason is Missouri
classified to-day by the political proph-
cts as Il Democratic State, and to "thrust
aside'' Senator Drake as our Chicago
contemporary expresses it, will never
avail to thrust aside the Democratic
party.
The same causes have operated also
in Florida, Alabama, North Carolina,
Tennessee and Arkansas, where the
Democracy have attained Il hold not to
be shaken and the same causes will be
felt in the ultimate redemption of Tex
as, Louisiana, and even South Carolina.
Just in proportion us the administra-
ton grows weaker by the detection of
it's original adl,crents, in that proper
ton the Democratic party becomes
stronger. How far the question of rev.
cnue reform will enter into the next
Presidential canvass, is as yet uncertain;
but in the further proportion that it
does become the leading issue of the
contest, will the probabilities of Demo-
cratic gains in the Northwest be en-
and of Democratic successes in
the South be assured.
Proceeding then upon the fair as
that the Republican party,
instead of increasing its strength, is
daily growing weaker, and that even
the sacrifice of Grant and the abandon
meat of the Grant interest cannot save
it and will never re-unitc it, we hold
the prospects of clccting Il Democratic |
in 1872 to be far better than
hey have been before in twenty-five
,cars, and that the following classitic;,-
ion of the electoral vote will not be
ound widely variant from the result,
lpon Il square Democratic platform
With Il judiciouS selection of candidates:
DEMOCRATIC.
Alabama, :; Arkansas, .; California, >;
q; Delaware, 3: Florida, 3;
=; Maryland, =; minnesota, 4; )
Z: Missouri. IL; Nevada, 3; I
ew Jersey, :; New York, b; n. Carolina, ,
Oregon, 3; Tennessee, 10; Texas. Is; :
irginin, II West Virginia, ,. Total, 1S6. :
REPU BLICAN.
Illinois, Ii: Iowa, : Kansas, ) Maine, . !:
IL; Michigan, s :; Nebraska, 4,
New Hampshire, >; Ohio, u PcnnsylHa-
a, 26 ;'Rhode Island, 4 South Carolina, q ; Il
ermont $; Wisconsin, :. Total, l32 DEM 7
ratio majority, 81. ,,
Nor would it be Il miracle were the n
ectoral vote of Ohio, Illinois, Ne Il
aska and Wisconsin to swell even Il