The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-10-19
The Political Outlook.

vember. The October ''scrImmage" leaves The
field very much rs II was left in October $50.
Then, before October, the chances seemed
much more strongly in favor of Fremont the
republican candidate, than they are now OF
Grant, buchanan had no chance of carrying
a single New England state, New York was
known to be as good as lost, Ohio had gone
tor the Republicans, and Indiana and Pennsyl-
vani. had been saved by meager maiorlties of
less than 500 in each. OF the Northern states,
therefore, there was left for Buchanan but
Pennsylvania, Indiana, New Jersey and a
chance for Illinois. Now the outlook Is about
the same, only instead of PENNSYLVANIA we
have New York, and instead of Illinois we
have Connecticut, Indiana and New Jersey re
naming as before. But what saved Buchan-
an was the South, Of which he carried all the
states except Maryland, as Greeley will cary
all OF them except South Carolina. Buchan.
an had 10 electoral votes to Fremont's l24 :;
and the relative vote between Greeley and
Grant will be about the same
There is thus not the slightest occasion for
despondencv on the part OF the Democrats
and Liberals. The October elections have de-
monstrated that victory is not only within
their grasp, but certain if they stand faith.
fully by their colors.
We find in the New York Triblnc q sum-
ming up of the situation as left by the Octo-
Der conflict, which is as fair and truthful as
1t is full of hope and encouragement
Writing before the October elections, :" says
the 1ribune, 1--WE said, IF cur friends carry
either one of the three states we shall have the
better chance Of success in November. The
other side must carry all three to give Mem the
better prospect
"We hare carried one Of them, and the one
most desperately contested. We have over.
thrown the ablcst of the a.oal that led the
President to his ruin-wc would say also the
most INSCRIPTIONS, if. in this hour of Penn
sylvania's shame, we could forget Simon Came.
ron. Thomas A. Hendricks is elected govern.
or of Indiana
1--WE have no desire to underratc the gravity
OF the situation. We have been counted out
ot Pennsy lvania, which wcshould have carried.
We could easily have dispensed with its votes
III the electoral college; but the moral effect
OF its loss is depressing 70 u greater extent
than the number o. its electoral votes would !
indicate. The work is made harder for us in
New York, harder Tor our brethren in all the
states we mean to carry by the triumph of
Camer"n's money. in the success OF the peni-
tentnry candidate. From this cay till the
first Tnesdsy of November, we shall, have up.
on usa steady, continuous strain.
"But We Shall win! Orr liberal republicans
did well in Pennsylvania. In parts of Ohio
they Won signal victory, while the Grant ma
jori,y in the state is handsomely reduced. Ir
Indiana the liberal and democratic victory was
won in the face of such lavish efforts to KIN
the free sutFrages of IL state by importation
and by midnight cyphering as even Mortou
never before attempted, and neither he no any.
body can again achieve.
"And now We are in the open field. 1t is no |
Longer possible to concentrate cabinet, a
treasury, all the patronage and ali the money
of the national administration on two or
three states, Thirty-scven states cannot be
gagged in anght, like North Carolina and
Pennsylvania, or ovcrpowcrcd by sheer weight
like Main. On the broader field the contest
assumes 'alrer aspect and Indiana gives US
the omen Of victory Under her inspiration
the splendid Liberal republican and democrat
ic organizations in Illinois declare they can
VIM and, knowing their work and their DOW.
or, we believe them. Consider once more the
list q, states AS II may fairly be placed to day,
IN the light of The elections wthia weel. in
Georgia. Connecticut, and Indiana
For Greeley Electors. For Grant Electors
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N'""S.'iS"''' 49, aMNlnc. ........... I
delaware ."...,.. massachusetts. 80. Is
Florida ........... michigan .........ll
Georgia. ......... Nebraska .......
Indiana. ......... .l5Ncvada ........ 3
Kentucky .......... l2Ohio 30
Louisiana .......... SOrcgon 3
Maryland ...... -. SPennsylvania 20
Missouri ........... l5South Carolina. :
New Jerscy....... 9Nermont. ......... 5
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