The Van Buren press., 1872-09-24


sweep the state in November.
Frank N Pxlny and other electoral
candiia'cs In California, in writing To our
national committee tha other dsv. saws
"Our cause is sprpspering in California,
and we do not doutt that "a presidential
electors, we shall carry the nsws u
Greeley
And it 10 utterly folly to count Cali.
fornia in any list but that for "A G.
The next is
ILLINOIS.
ANY one familiar at all with the polit-
icsl tide in that state must know that the
hope Of the Grant men, a. to their snc |
cess there. has been on the wae Tor
weeks II looks Ike big majority to
overcome there--5l. $50. but in n sta'e
with over hundred counties, ani cist |
ing vote of perhaps over half million
this year. the pereen age oi change aaes
nut 10 so very great 70 accom- lish 20
l,tical revolution Already there stc .
sufficient number pi Repub'irsus, Who |
voted for Grant in 1853. aud who arr
openly for Greeley aud Brown. 20 chang |
the result On tho hypothesis ,hNt tue
r laivs strength of tbs parties l. the
same "a in 1863. except the change oil
Ii cal Republicans from Grant 20 Gree
lp, it only requires 2557b Republicans
in the whole state to renounce the Phil
adtlpha nominee to carry the state for
Greeley IT dozens Of eminent mea. or
a,ors and statesmen, men Who have been
and still are leaders of pablic opaion,
ike Gov Palmer. Gen Farnsworth. Col
Leonard SWEET, DC. and IL score OF
lirs' class newspapers. headed bv the Chi.
csgo Tribune, can't c3rry along Will
them % 600 Republican votes, thru lead
ership aud journalism mights we'll cease
claiming the respectable position accord
cd to them by the thinking world. Hi
nois will cast its electoral vots for Greo
ley and Brown by 10000 majority.
Now we come to
Senator Morton and his assistants o
shrewd and slcepless organizers have the
assurance 10 claim Hoosierdom as Ger
tain for Grant 1t is nearly joke to
make so absurd claim. Two years ago
the opposition walked triumphantly over
the political race course, and the Repub-
licnn state ticket was defeated by 1865
majority. From the stand point OF the
nation committees both Liberal Rspubli-
can and Democratic, it 10 evident that
Bourbonism in Indiana will amount to
nothing-ahsolutely nothing But CIV
ing the Duncan. Adams party. the benefit
of the doubt, and counting two per cent.
of the Indiana Democracy as anti Balti.
more. that would he 5000, based on the
vote OF 1870, which was about 16O, 200.
Subtracting 5000 from 100000 leaves
l56,s00 But there are again in the
state. at the lowest estimate 10000 Lib
e-al Republicans In 1870 the Republican
STATE ticket received about l6I 500 votes
Take 10000 from that and there remains
l47 500 Nov. add these 10000 /, the
Greeley ticket. and that would make
1866 500, or maj ,ritv over Grant Of ID, |
800 II Greele, does not carry Indiana
by nearly 10000 majority l shall be
greatly dsappoin'ci. Letters come here
fram all parts ofthe state They breathe
the same determined and hopeful feeling
and indicate how the tide il running.
A gentleman writing from New Castl".
Henry county. says:
This is the Old Burnt district OF Indi.
ana. heretofore largely R'publican. AMI
the fields are white unto harvest
y In this township we have not less
than sixty. five Liberal Republicans, where
the Rcpull can msj,ritv has heretofore
been $50 out of 600 voters. V
Asa finger hoard indicating the road
TO travel. that Is good, for when sixtl.
i've Republicans of425 desert G. ant and
vote for Greeley that viii max achange
Ia New Castle Of l30. The sane ratio
lroughol, the state would give Greeley
he stat, nv nearly 40 600.
The next state in the list Of doubtful is
LOUISIANA.
II would have been question, six
, eeks ago, Ms to how the Pelican state
would vote in November. But the divi
,ions there, which made chaos of q over
mi j,r,,y against Grant have
De II cicatrized and there is smooth sail
ng now to Greeley victory All the
ocal differences In Louisiana are correct
|, !, and he sore head tick Is are all re-
red. giving place 70 one united aud cen
tralizpd effort, both on the state and elec
'oral tickets Nothing can possibly oc
cur to prevent the Delta commonwealth
from giving her vote to Horace Greeley
As to
NORTH CAROLINA,
1t is hardly necessary to expend pen
ful OF ink The majority BY which Cald-
woll, the Grant candidate for governor
is " counted in, is but few votes over
ono thousand Now, when We remem-
ber that the Merrimon ticket was noml-
mated before the Cincinnati convention
assembled, really before tho Liberal
got on its great legs, it is not
at all surprising that North Carolina was
close enough to permit the Washington
rings Co count in their gubernatorial can
iidate 1t seems to me that the old Tar
state is safe and certain for the philoso.
pher. Tho Liberal Republicans will
come to the rescue in November and the
electoral vote will be rightly and pstr-
otically given.
Perhaps Of all the states which can be
,ct down in doubtful column
PENNSYLVANIA
I. tho most important She casts twen-
.y.nine electoral votes and is worth look
ny after
r., u.r,v,,f, /. tha Grant canli1sts