The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-07-21
PRESIDENTIAL FIGURING.

ueeiueufy. IL mas the nappy iaculty
of making everything look bright for
its side, if to accomplish such pur.
pose it must take terrific strides from
the path of consistency and all those
other jewels nominated in the same
category. In last Tuesday mornings
issue that paper publishes from the
Philadelphia Press a trio of Presiden.
tial representations which had the
effect to wreathe its gothic features
into extatic smiles and to cause the
editor to sit with more fancied secur.
ity upon his federal official stool than
ever before. Of course the figures
alluded to gives half of all the States
to the Republicans to start in with -
it next gobbles up all the doubtful
States for the Republicans, and then
reaches over into the Democratic
column and snatches about half OF
those States and plants them under
the head of " Republican" With this
brazen mathematical vandalism il
would be indeed strange if our Radi-
cal friends could not capture the next
election-on paper. The absurdity
of the Oregoaias,'s manner of figuring
out Radical victory will become
more apparent to our readers when
we inform them that it swoops down
on our own Democratic Oregon and
carries it over, body and breeches, in
to the Radical column!
AS Presidential figuring seems to
be the order of the day, and to show
how simple and easy it is to carry an
election by a judicious amount ofsuch
figuring, We present the following
table from a late number of the
Louisville Co,9ier--Jo,vnal The
whole number of electoral votes is
81, requiring 159 to constitute ma
jority. 1t presents the following ia
bic of three sections, embracing the
Democratic, the Radical and the
doubtful States:
Democrdtic-New Hampshire 5
! New York 33, Indiana 13, Missouri
Ii, Delaware 3, Maryland Z, Virgins
10, West Virginia 5, North Carolina
8, Georgia 8, Alabama 8, Tennessee
| 10, Kentucky IL, Texas 6, Nevada 3
California 5-total Isl.
Radical-Maine Z, Massachusetts,
u, Vermont 5, Rhode Island 5, Mich
igan 8, Iowa 8, Minnesota, 4, kansa:
3, Wisconsin 8, South Carolina 6
Mississippi total ~.
| Doubtfal-Arkansas 5, New Jersey
Z, Ohio u, Pennsylvania 26, Connect
icut 6, Nebraska 8, Illinois II, Flori
da 8, Louisiana 6-total 81.
j We might (says the Co~ier-Jour
naD have placed Louisiana and Flori
da in the Democratic column, for We
believe they are thoroughly Demo
cratic, if anything like fair election
be held. So we might say of Arkan
sas. Every State that we have sci
down as doubtful will be warmly
contested. Whatever may be the re
suit in Ohio this fall, we shall not
lose hope Of carrying that State
against Gen. Grant, who viii undoubt
edly be the Radical nominee for the
next Presidency. New Jersey, al
old Democratic State, was carried by
the Radicals last year on account of /:
split among Democrats in one or two
Congressional Districts. The chance.
are that she will be all right in 1872
Connecticut is SO closely balanced
that no one can say with confidence
how she will cast her electoral vote
We have put Illinois in the doubtful
column because the Democrats in tn,
last election reduced the Radical ma
Ijority from forty or fifty thousand
down to a mere handful. Nebraska i
rapidly wheeling into the Democratic
line. Last, though not least, come
Pennsylvania. Should her Democrac,
triumph this Fall-and they are yer,
sanguine-we engage to take her on
of the doubtful and place her in thu
Democratic column. No sensibl,
man can look at the States and th'
figures we have presented withou
feeling that the Democratic party cal
elect the next Presinent, If aoisdon
should guide its councils.