New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-31
THE CANVASS IN KENTUCKY.

Kentucky is at present undergoing q
regular election canvass of the most ex-
citing character. Republicans and Demo-
Gratis are chastising each other with stump
speeches from one end of the State to the
other, and the result seems to hang in
such doubt that the Bourbons are per-
spring quite freely in favor of the
ancient traditions. Two years ago Ken
lucky gave Democratic majority of
eighty thousand votes, and her entire
strength was deliberately set down as so
much capital for the Democrats in all
future emergencies. There was mistake
made in the calculation, however, fer to-
day the chances are risky that the Re-
publicans will win the fight. In the first
place the Democracy is not united, and
its divisions are inharmonious. In the
next place about sixty thousand negroes
have been added to the voting lists, which
at once reduces the Democratic majority
! down to twenty thousand. In the third
place, about twenty thousand carpet-bag-
gers have settled in Louisville and along
the line of the Ohio, and as these are
mostly Republicans it will be seen that the
eighty thousand Democratic majority is
about overcome. Next, General Harlan
is an old wing, strong, honest, progress
i've, and eloquent He will carry a large
vote of conservative citizens. Next, he is
in favor of the railroad from Covington to
Atlanta, by which Eastern Kentucky will
be put in railroad connection with the bal
ance of the world over a road of its own.
This is a strong card Next, thousands
of people who were afraid to vote the Re-
publican ticket when it was weak and
unpopular will now come up to its |
support. And, last, Vallandigham's new |
platform has instructed the country that |
the Democracy can only hope to succeed |
hereafter by stealing the Republican pol
icy. Kentucky is a compromise State
now, as she ever was, and her compro-
missing people are already discussing the
propriety of trading with the genuine
party rather than with a
spurious organization that only proposes
to carry its point by pretending to be Re-
publican. The Democracy has a we'll de-
fined standing, which Kentucky fully I'M
derstands. 1t is pledged against negro
suffrage and negro elevation. If these
principles are to be successful, the peo-
pie of Kentucky intend to accept of them
with their original supporters, and not
with the reluctant Democrats. General
Harlan is presenting these points with
eloquence and discretion in every county
n the State, and though his opponent
meets him on the stump, the bat
lie so far has waged in favor of the
1t could scarcely be
otherwise, for both of the candidates
IRE proclaiming the same doctrines at the
anne time, and the public must feel that
he Republican candidate is better de-
CRYING of support than his Democratic
who is running with Repub-
lean principles. When General Harlan
defends the situation" his speech is in
ccord with his past career, for he has
cen loyal citizen from the beginning
When General Leslie accepts the situa-
ion, the people must see that his faith
) liable to suspicion, for only few
,onths ago both himself and his entire
arty declared that the situation was a
aud, and that its acceptance would en-
anger the government. Under these
circumstances, it is only rea-
Enable to assume that General Leslie is /
OF making a winning race.