The Van Buren press., 1871-07-11
RNlicai
Dunbttul
Democratic.


Florida in the Democratic. column, for we
believe they are thoroughly Democratic,
i if anything like fair election be held
| SO We might say Of Arkansas. Every
! State that we have set down as doubtful
will be warmly contested. Whatever may
| be the result in Ohio this fall, we shall
not lose hope Of carrying that State
against Gen Grant, who will uudoubted-
! ly be the Radical nominee for the next
! Presidency New Jersey, an old Demo
cratic State, was carried by the Radicals
last year on account of a split among
| Democrats in one or two Congressional
districts. The chances are that she will
be all right in ~. 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 doubt
full column because the Democrats III the
last election reduced the Radical majority
from forty or fifty thousand down to a
mere handful. Nebraska is rapidly wheel
ing into the Democratic line Last
though not least, comes Pennsylvania
Should her Democracy triumph this fall
and they are very sanguine-we engage
to take her out of the doubtful and place
her in the Democratic column. No
sensible man can look at the States and
the figures we have presented without
! feeling that the Democratic party can
| elect the next President if lCiSd0m sh0uld
| quite It's councils.
! No fair minded man, who is familiar
with the national field of politics, will at
/ tempt TO criticise this classification. We
have placed no State but Texas in the
! Democratic column, which has not been
carried by the Democrats within the past
twelve months. We put Texas there, be-
cause our information is that sheis over
whelmingly Democratic. At fair cleo
ton she can roll up sixty or seventy
thousand majority The administration
Of Gov. Davis is so odious to the people
that they are painting for an opportunity
to turn him out, neck and heels, and with
him his party SO here are one hundred
and fifty one electoral votes which can
be held by the Democratic party, if the
good sense which once characterized it
does not take to itself wings and fly
away. 1t takes only eight more votes to
give our candidate for the Presidency n
majority-the whole number Of electoral
votes being 3l7. In the column marked
" doubtful " there are three States, Flori
da, Arkansas and Louisiana, that tnobOdy
believes can be carried 10y the Radicals
except by fraud In this place we can
not help remarkng, parcnthetically, that
NylA Doli
cal column and see South Carolina and
Mississippi stsnding politically by the
side Of Massachusetts and Vermont, he
would no more say that there is nothing
new under the sun.
Mr.. Bcxton was in the habit of saying
that he dealt in the effective logic of fig
ureS and facts. These are certainly
good weapons, and having them in
abundance before Us we propose to use
some them. We will use round numbers
only.
It is fact thcn, that five millions
seven hundred thousand votes were cast
for President in 1868, and Gen. Grants
majority was three hundred thousand.
1t is q fact that one hundred and fifty
thousand Of this majority came from
New England.
tits a fact that Virginia, Mississippi
and Texas did not vote-not having been
reconstructed according to the most ap-
proved plan Of Radicalism.
1t is q fact that that West Virginia,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri and
Indiana gave Grant eighty-Gye thousand
majority in '6S, and we believe it to be a
fact that they will give eighty-fye thou
sand against him in ~.
1t is 4 fact that Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Illinois gave one hundred and TWEEN
ty thousand majority to Grant; and if he
carries them again, in our opinion, it will
only be by the skin Of the teeth--plovi.
ded always that the Democracy are wise.
- CoWier-JOWH0l.