The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-07-05

closely balanced that no ere can say
with confidence how she will cast her
electoral vote. We have put Illinois
in the doubtful column because the
democrats in the last election reduced
the radical majority from forty or fifty
thousand down to a mere handful. Ne
braska is rapidly wheeling 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
mau can look at the States and the fig.
ures we have presented without feeling
that the democratic party can elect the
next President If ,cisdom should guide
its councils.
No fair minded man, who is familiar
with the national field of politics, will
attempt 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, because our information is that
she is overwhelmingly democratic. AT
fair election 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 il
does not take to itself wings and fly
away. 1t takes only eight more votes
to give our candidate for the Presiden,
cy majority-the whole number of
electoral votes being 3l7. In the col,
umn marked doubtful" there are three
States, Florida, Arkansas and Louisi-
ana, that nobody believes can be car
ricd by the Radicals except by fraud.
In this place we cannot help remark
ing, parenthetically, that if Solomon
could now gaze on the Radical column
and see South Carolina and Mississippi
standing politically by the side of Mas.
sachusetts and Vermont he would no
more say that there is nothing new
under the sun.
Mr.. Benton was in the habit of say
ing that he dealt in the effective logic
of figures and facts" These are GER
tainly good weapons, and having them
in abundance before us we propose to
use some of them. We will use round
numbers only.
1t is fact, then, that five millions
seven hundred thousand votes were
cast for President in 1868, and Gen.
Grants majority was three hundred
thousand.
1t is a fact that one hundred and
fifty thousand of this majority came
from New England.
1t is fact that Virginia, Mississippi
and Texas did not vote-not having
been reconstructed according to the
most approved plan of Radicalism.
1t is fact that West Virginia,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri
and Indiana gave Grant eighty-fve
thousand majority in '6S, and we be-
lieve it to be fact that they will give
eighty-fve thousand against him in ~.
1t isa fact that Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Illinois gave one hundred and
twenty thousand majority to Grant;
and if he carries them again, in our
opinion, it will only be by the skin of
the teeth-provided always that the
Democracy are wise. -Cowier-Jour.
MEMPHIS, June 26.-Major An
drew jackson Donaldson died here sud-
denly at half-past eight this evening, of
cholera morbus, at the Peabody hotel,
in the seventy-second year of his age.
He graduated second in his class in
1922, at West Point was private sec