Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-26
MAYNARn,s STRENGTH.

The Avalanche concludes that the
Radical party in Tennessee has de-
creased ever since 1868, because they
have not polled vote equal to Grants,
and gives the following returns: 1863
Grant, 56,628; 1869 Stokes, 56,O36;
ls7O-Wisener, Al 800. Does the Ava
lanche mean that the decrease has been
Going on at this rate for four years2 If
this were SO Grant and Maynard would
not get more than 10000 votes, and in
four years more there would not be a
Radical left in the State. Stokes re-
ceived something like the strength of
his party in 1869, but any sane person
knows that the party did not decrease
1886 votes from 1869 to 1870. Hence
we did not give and do not accept Wise
ners vote of Al 500 as the standard of
the party's strength in Tennessee. We
have said before that no occasion has
occurred since Grants election, save,
perhaps, Stokes race. to arouse the had
icals and bring them out in solid phalanx
to the polls. For q time they were discour-
aged and kept quiet, and their leaders had
little to say. In this canvass it is
changed; they are jubilant at what they
regard as encouragement from the sup
porters of Johnson and at the Northern
elections. They are reading the docu-
ments which come from Washington by
every mail, and going to hear their
speakers and to shout for johnson when
he needsit, and will vote solid for Mayn-
ard. Those who really expect falling
off from 1868 will be disappointed And
as figures" are demanded, we will give
a few. The State census taken in 1871
showed that there we're in the State
6O,945 cologed voters, and l99,493 white
voters-tolal white and colored, 26O, 43S.
We viii suppose that twenty-five per
cent. Of the entire number do not vote;
that would leave a vote to be cast IN
November ofl95, 1923, an outside estimate
probably, but we will take that as a basis.
Deducting twenty-five per cent. OF the
coiored vote leaves As, ZOE, and twenty
five per cent from the white vote leaves
I49. 62OS In the absence Of any reliable
data. we will estimate that one-seventh
of the white votes are Radicals, which |
would be p ,S74; adding the colored vote
and the white Radical vote together,
gives a total of GLOSS; leaving to be d.
vided between Cheasham and Johnson
l29, 246; or to each one on an equal DIVIDE
64.l2s. Ne allowance is made for the
colored Democratic vote, because
when party lines are drawn as IN TINS
election, it will not amount to one thou
sand in the State. These estimates we
are willing to stand by until the election,
and, we believe, are as fair and reliable
as any that have been made by the
friends Of Mr.. Johnson. The point We
claim to make is, that Maynard IS the
dangerous man, and that should any
thing like tie vote be cast between
Cheatham and Johnson. he would stand
a fair chance Of election. But If our
contemporaries insist on taking Wiseners
vote Of Al, 500, in 1870, as a standard
they cannot object to Governor Browns
It the same time, which was 1879, and
divided equally between Cheatham and
Johnson would give them each S9,4ss.
We would warn the people that by faii-
pg to support General Cheatham, the
,erular nominee of the only Organiza-
ion that opposes Radicalism IN the
state. they may cause the election OF
Horace Maynard, the most subtle and
,o-erful Republican in the South This
M time TO elect our foes to Congress
" di~isions among ourselves. We
.s;ned control Of the State BY dlyi-
ION n the Republican ranks, and IN
=. tban four years now seem about to
60 ,heir most fatal blunder. These
a., are Of sufficient gravity to demand
he uppreiudiced consideration Of every
-;berai and Democrat in the State
OH CITY.
Tb,.o az bright DAYS for Memphis