The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-10-08

RepuDllcan member, VIII Dc Gc-tletltu ny uob
less than 200 majority.
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THIS STATE Journal Grants organ in Virginia)
places the call for a Convention of the Straisht-
out' Democracy In this State Mt the head Of rs
columns, and no vices the enterprise as one com
m1nding the respect of all right thinking men"
Dispatch. I a
We hope our neighbor won't get into too
much Of worry over the editorial manage
ment of the STATE JOURNAL, if it is
troubled about the "Straightout" move
ment in this State. We publish q news-
paper, and it would be hardly creditable in
us to let so important an item of news slip
through our fingers as that embraced in the
call for o " Democratic Convention y in
Virginia, especially when U city contem-
poraries would have snapped at the same
item with the greatest avidity had it come to
their notice first! In taking a retrospective
view Of the politics Of the State, only for tue
brief period of a year or more past, we
confess to no little surprise that we should
have been honored as the medium of Civ
ing publicity to such a call. Something
very extraordinary must have happened in
the political circles of Richmond for the
Democrats Of the State to look to US for
such very small favors as publishing their
calls for public meetings. We are certain
that no political change has taken place in
the distinguished citizen of Richmond who
signs the call. He occupies the same broad
national platform now that he did when
he received the loudcsr plaudits Of our con-
temporaries. He was a Democrat of the
JelTersonian school then /; he is the same
now. Somebody must have run after
strange political gods, and worshipped at
worse than heather ~shrines, or this chas-
NAL difference between the Hon. James
Lyons and the Dispatch could not have ex-
listed. Whose principles have been prosti
tuted and made to serve a degenerate pur-
pose, that the political calculus needs such
diferentiating at their hands? We regret
the fact-but we are constrained to say
it nevertheless-that the Dispatch is the
functional quantity that needs correction,
and not the straight-haired Democrat who
signs the call we published yesterday.
AS between Straightout Democrats and
truck-and-dicker politicians, the STATE
JOURNAL has a decided choice, and. what
is more, has the ~frankness to express it.
THE mongrels who howl . anything to
beat Grant, are very jabilant over their
majority in Georgia. In 1868 the vote Of
Georgia was F.,e
For lO2,S2z
Majority for Observation-Disclosures. 46,Css
At that election Seymour carried the fol-
lowing additional States, viz:
Delaware by........ 1857 New Jersey by, 2,ss(
! k eiy BY ~ E 40 as; sas H Hew ! ore %x py"'..io ' ".
Maryland by.-..--3l,9l9 tFw COS = rr.
After all these majorities, General Grant
beat Seymour on the popular vote 3O9,5 ss,
| AT that election General Grant carried
| the State of Indiana by a majority Of 0,572
the State of Ohio by a majority of Al ,428
, the State of Pennsylvania by a majority o
%, 1893; his majority in these States aggre
. gated 79,s0s, which the Greeleyites have t.
overcome to carry these three States. w,
/ fear no such result. Discussions amons
the Republicans Of Pennsylvania may re
duce Hartranft's majority below that of th'
1 President in 1868, but to overcome a ma
jority of 2S,S9s is more than we beliey
4 can be done. In truth we confidently ex
i. ,o,+ A. - oil tbrao Cratoo which ,,of,
to-day, for our regular noninees, and fol
Grant in November. by increased MAORI
2 ties. 9A IA
aHa s
THE Democrats in New Haven seem Il
be sadly s'demoralized.O Some philoso
pher has said that IS truth is SPHERICAL
: But we are afraid thatthe " Ring" in tina
. city will never take that shape ; for if al
: the Democrats say Of each other there i
true, truth isn't round among them much
We fear that this disorder in the part.
, comes from taking too much Greeley. ]
so, they had better antidote a little o
!, O'Conor and Adams. That might possibl
> save their principles, lift didn't save them
THE " reform /" business in the city {
New York is in much the same inextrica
BILE confusion that characterizes it in til
country at large. No less than five differ
ent gentlemen have been named for tn
ie place of Mayor Of that delightfully."- Demo
n cratic city by what claim to be reforr
organizations" Meanwhile, all of ther
are waiting to see how Tammany will pre-
e nounce. Tammany yet rules in the HON
D. Of Horace Greeley. Great is Tammany
o and Greeley is its apostle. n.
Il WE observe that some of our Souther
exchanges urge the people to vote fo
~ Greeley in the interest Of the " South an
Il her institutions What institution ha
4 the South that the North has not in con
v mon with her? Has Mr.. Greeley an
arrangement with them concerning an il
s%titution which was popularity supposed
Il be dead and buried, by general cOnsenI