New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-12-21
Cnmmcnts BIZ The Tribune.

There was no such division in Pennsylvania
"a TIE above table aflrms, as we have hitherto
shown In certain districts. the Democrats saw
fit to run no candidates of their own, but to
support instead one of two rival Republican
candidates; and they thus helped elect Mr..
Greeley over Mr.. O'Ncal in the Hid District.
The UiorM evidently gives Mr.. Creeley's entire
| vote to the Democrats, and thus makes "a
false balancen which the Good Book pro-
nOunccs IAN abomnatiOn to the Lord
In this State, it is true that the votes cast
for the successful candidates in the Rensselaer,,
Clinton, and some other districts, were given
TO Democrats, utthcy were not given to them as
Democrats SO The vote given to the success
FIJI candidates in the Chautauqua and several
other districts was nowhere near the full Re-
publican strength. And beside, the Democratic
vote throughout the State was enormously
swcllcd by lavish disbursement of money
stolen from our CIty's taxpayers, while the
Republican strength was impaired by chronic
fcud. To set down 44,4G9 as the Democratic
majority in this State is to deludc the ignorant
and simple.
Missouri gave no 47,209 Democratic majority
in 1870. The World coolly sweeps the Liberal
NcDuDllCdn VOlc \WHlCt was too thuh
| 60,O0O) into the Democratic net
Texas gave no $4,000 Democratic majority
this year. She may have given that majority
against the carpet -baggcrs" who have bought
and sold legislation at Austin for the last two
years and against their affiliated nominees for
Congress; but not less than 10000 Republican
votes were cast against these, precisely as
| 10000 to 5000 Democratic votes were cast for
the Republican State ticket in our late clcc-
| ton.
| The World is further mistaken in aSsuiniu :;
| that ain Arkansas and Mississippi, the recon
"structed Constitutions have sweeping dlstran-
"chisement clauses !" az also in assuming that
ain West Virginia, Convention ia Just now ahor to
assemble to amend the prosrrptve Suffrage provisions
OF the War OF the State Constitution, and Mi'sOuri
is yet hampercd nv the vndctvc Electoral legislation Of
| tho Drake school,
West Virginia eliminated all Suffrage pro-
scription from her Constitution by legislative
action which the People ratified by direct
vote several months ago: a new Convention
has been ordered and chosen on other grounds
and for other purposes. Missouri discarded
vindictive electoral legislation by an over
whelming popular vote more than year ago.
The World closes with this mistaken flourish
"Now that Missouri and West Virginia will soon ali
rosac tho Acknowledgement imposed them by Rcpub
licln authority. the Democratic party can count
absolute majority for 1872"
Men, "by losing, rendered sager," fight
shy of unqualified predictions. They can de-
terminc the result of an election much better
a month after than a year before its occur
renee, even with no better data than the du-
bious returns for which The World is famous.
Yet no intelligent observer will deny that the
relative strength Of the Democratic party is
much less now than it was eleven months
prior to the election of 1861 when it had just
carried NewYork by an overwhelming ma
jority, and had barely missed carrying Penn
sylvania and Ohio. But we are not even re-
motley descended from prophets, and will only
say that almost any one can give better guess
as to the issue of 1872 when the rival candi-
dates and platforms shall have been fairly
placed before the people.