New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-18
MIKE RE1UIi

Only next year, we are TO have the most in
furiated Presidential contest since 1900. Meali-
time. we shall have shout after shout over as
founding Democratic triumphs in local cleo
lions, Just as we had in 1867, when they claimed
Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and nearly everything
else: carrying this State by Fifty Thousand
majority, though they were fairly beaten in
the Presidential struggle the next year, and
only seemed to win by gigantic frauds There
are feuds among the Republicans which
ought not to exist; there are disafiec-
ton, and cOldness, and chickering's, which
viii reduce our vote in most OF the
intermediate elections and electiliy our
adversaries with sanguine expectations OF
choosing the next President and Nice-Pres-
dent This will incte fresh Outcroppings OF
total deprayity, and arouse the Republicans
to concerted and desperate exertlon. There
were pOlled 5S34,7SS votes at the last Presiden-
tial Election, in which Mississippi, Texas, and
Virginia did not participate, while Florida chose
her Electors by the Legislature. Every State
will vote next time, and there will be polled
about Six and a Half Millions of legal votes,
with 1--WE trust) fewer Illegal than in 'GS, when
this State was carried for Seymour and Blair
by gigantic frauds at the ballot-Joxes, while
! Georgia and Louisiana were made to go the
same way by so menacing and afrighting the
Blacks of many Counties that they dare not
offer to vote, or were cOerced into voting the
ticket which they hoped and prayed would be
beaten. If every legal voter shall be allowed
to vote his choice in ~, no one voting twice,
and none but legal voter voting at all, there
| can be little doubt as to the result but
| Al. IL
the North, while coercion and terror
viii again reduce that of the Repub-
licans at the South, so that no man
can f0resee the result. Perhaps the
amended Election Law of Congress will
preclude illegal voting and false counting in
our State, in which case we can settle the
matter right here but it will not do to rely
on that. Nearly every State will be fought
with desperation, and three-fourths Of them
with conflicting hopes. Maine. Massachusetts,
Vermont, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Min
nesota, Iowa, are all that the DEMOCRATS will
not seriously try TO carry; while we shall
| struggle hopefully for every one not exelud-
ing Delaware, Maryland, and Kentucky, in which
the present probabilities are strongly against
us. From Madawaska to the Rio Grande.
from Cape Hatteras to Pugets Sound. tho
country will blaze with excitement and enfbn-
siasm from July till November, and vast meet
ings in scores will be harangued in exciting.
vehement speeches. Few now living ever
witnessed q Presidential contest which con-
ynlsed the country in every part as it will be
stirred by the contest of 1872.
We renewedly urge, therefore, the Republi.
cans of every State to begin at once their
ouiet preparations for the momentous struggle
by severally inducing every one whom they
can influence to take and read some Republi.
can newspaper. tho result VIII probably be
determined by the fidelity or mnSwarmnes'
wherewith this duty shall be fulfilled in liz
year of silent preparation already well begun
We shall surely triumph If the People shall
be seasonably and generally enlightened with
regard " the aninsus aud purpose OF our cd