The Lincoln County herald., 1872-10-16
The Eleciioss.

| on tne otn iubt. IeHnsyNaUid Weut hAO
ical by about 10000 majority; Ohio
by about 10000; and Indiana elected
q Democrat (Hendrlcks) governor by
about 600 majority, while the balance
Of the state ticket elected we're Rad
icals. We looked toward Pennsylvania
si.h faint hopo for Liberal victory
on account of the crimes with Shich
Tlartranft, the Radical candidate for gov.
eruor, vas charged by leading men Of his
own party, among them Forney and Cur
tin; bnt Notwithstanding the fact that
these charges were pretty well proven to
be true, the Radicals rallied around him,
and the result is as stated above-a
proof that the members Of that party
think more Of political victory than
they do Of getting honest men in office.
1t seems that if they were to run man
just out Of the penitentiary, they would
elect him, and Yerkes would probably
have been as successful as Hartranft if
he had been the nominee.
These elections have probably dis
coursgeda q few Liberals, but if VIC believe
the reports that are pouring in through
our exchanges, a rally is taking place
along the whole line, and the ranks are
closing up finely. "As goes Pennsylva-
MIA, so goes the Union" was once relia.
bic maxim, but our friends refuse now to
take this as an omen of final defeat, and
they intend to fight it out to the bitter
cad. There is good reason for this, too
for locking over the field and counting
up the electoral vote, We 6nd that Gree
ley will have probable majority 10 the
electoral college sufficient to elect him.
Counting New Hampshire and Florida as
doubtful, We have Connecticut with its 6
electoral votes, New York 35, New Jer
sey 9, Dsleware 3, Maryland s, Virginia
IL, West Virginia s. North Carolina 10,
Georgia IL, Alabama 10, Louisiana s.
Texas 8, Arkansas 6, Missouri Is, Ten
nessss II, Kentucky II, Indiana 10,
California 6, and Oregon 3 footing up
1913 votes. Against this for Grant is
Maine I, Massachusetts l3, Rhode Island
1, Vermont 5, Pennsylvania 80, South
Carolins !, Mississippi s, Kansas 5, Ne.
braska 3, Ohio %, Michigan II, Hi
nols 81, Iowa II, Minnesota 5, Wiscon
sin 10, and Nesada 3, footing up l64.
We are not sanguine enough to believe
Greeley will get all the states that are
here put down for him, but be can spare
one or two Of them, and still come out
ahead but should New York 20 Eepub
ican, then ito all up with US. The Rad
lcas are now turning their attention to
that state and New Jersey. The admin
is,ra'iou patronage is large, immense, and
public money will be poured out in these
states like water, and the American peo
pie have learned how it may influence
elections. Our chief, however, locks out
calmly and cheerfully on the rolling,
surgi1g waves that threaten to sweep
over and bear down our brave young
ship. Mr.. Greeley says We can surely
count upon lbs electoral votes in the
South, and that the North will give us
the rest and we know that there is net
another man in the whole country who
knows better what the fnal result Of the
election will be, for there are few mer
who understand the people Of this grea,
country better than he.
But if We would succeed we mus
work. We have been defeated in thu
first skirmish, but the great deciding
battle is yet to be fought, and to gain th'
victory every soldier in the Liberal caus'
will have to stand square up in the grea
political line Of battle. Democrats, stant
to your guns, aud if you fall, let it b.
while you are doing battle to save you
country from sorruption-it may b
from anarchy. Cling no longer to tha
phantom, that will @ the wisp, that i
leading you on to assist Graut by vOtinI
, for OConor. One of two men, Greeley
or Grant, will DO the mex. President
With tho former We have promise of goo
for the South; with the other no,hip
bu. that eternal hate spirit that sees il
every Democrat and every Southern mai
nothing but "rsbel," "traitor," and wh,
/, clamor for their repentance, but notxith
|. standing the South has repeuted 10 sack
, cloth and ashes, still they want to grin
t i. down. The GRANTEES call you brave
, and noble, and much more, when 20
/, hurrah for O'Conor, because they know
3 there is sot the ghost Of show for hin